Bullishify

Sui has the best Tech, but how to attract the best dev? Having more developers is crucial so training new Move developers, students with bootcamps, hackathons is definitely things we need to do for longterm. However, from hackathon idea to success, 99% will fail, because not only devs we need a whole teams with good execution capability including backer, marketer, designer, product managers... So if we have limited resources, my take would be to also give those teams with proven track record or product traction the right support, because they are the least 1% that will likely to make it. Through my experience working with different teams and people at SF & ML, they're all talented, hard working, driven, and share Sui’s vision. Big thanks to dev rel team Daniel, Henry, for getting us into the Overflow Hackathon, and then Ocean Dao Summit that we've learned a lot. But we’re still missing key support like Slush Wallet listings, official SuiNetwork or Co-Founder shoutouts, or grants. Why? It’s not that they don’t want to help. It’s the corporate setup. Sui’s not a startup anymore; it’s got teams with different goals, rules, and decision layers. This creates silos, slowing down support for projects when they need it most. For example, listing Blast.fun during its high-volume phase would’ve been huge than months later. Sometimes, individual leaders step in, but their endorsements feel subjective without clear guidelines, and community voices get drowned out. Take @moonbags_io: we had tons of wallets, millions in daily volume, gave 85% of revenue back to the ecosystem, and won a hackathon with top community votes. Still, we’re left guessing what’s needed for support. Imagine a new dev seeing this? I also run a B2B company with offices across 5 countries serving enterprises, so I get how slow siloed decisions can be. It takes months or years to close deals. My two cents? ML should let teams closer to projects make faster calls and be accountable for them. To avoid bias and focus on quality, set clear rules for grants, listings or shoutouts, like: - Matching RFPs and using Sui’s tech stack - Audits for DeFi with pools/vaults - Minimum legit volume or users (less bots) - Trending dApp status for a period of time - Community votes rounds (voices.wal.app) Just my humble thoughts. Others might know better, and I may not fully get ML’s culture. But if new dev can focus on building great products rather than making friends to gain an un-fair advantage, Sui could pull in more talent. Check this true story for reference: teapawt.org/addicteddotfun/status/…