Cabin Labs - First Year of Experiments, Oct 23 - Oct 24

[Matai]

Thanks @jon!

Few questions:

1. More Clarity on historical data

A. Is there a place where DAO members can access historical insight on community health metrics beyond the past year?

It would be helpful to see how these stats stack up to past initiatives to understand how these new efforts and pivots might be faring compared to past initiatives.

I think it makes sense that engagement was very low at the beginning of the year as you and Grin were the only employees until I joined the team.

B. Can you share a graph that illustrates the growth over time from the newsletter portal? I also believe that the newsletter growth was largely due to supper clubs, as I saw those stats while employed at Cabin Labs.

More transparency on past metrics would be awesome and insightful to inform strategies moving forward.

2. What are users doing in the app?

The graph you shared was helpful, but it doesn’t really explain the value being generated.

A. What % of users are creating census profiles?

B. How many messages have been exchanged on the app?

3. More of a focus on impact vs. arbitrary #s

The Cabin Las 2025 roadmap goal is to hit 500 neighborhoods in 5 years, with the hope that this will unlock some business opportunities. Based on the strategy you outlined in the NAP proposal:

@jon

The goal of the accelerator is to grow the network of neighborhoods. It is by far the most successful way we’ve been able to do that so far. Social networks—whether they are traditional web2 platforms like Facebook and Twitter, or network cities like Cabin—require significant scale before they are useful, and typically require scale before they can operate a financially sustainable business model. The accelerator is about helping us achieve that network scale first and foremost.

Cabin’s mission is to build a network city. No one has ever done that before, so no one knows the playbook for growing a global network of neighborhoods or how to build a business model for it. We have been iterating towards answers to these questions. We now have some clarity on a path to grow the network. Now we need to figure out a business model.

A. How many neighborhoods have more than 1 person associated to them? I know there are a handful of couples, but what about neighbors living outside of the same residence?

B. What impact metrics are you focused on that try to illustrate the benefit of the ~$500K budget allocated to these efforts?

@Matai

Cabin Labs Proposal (Oct 2023):

• Total participation: 17,941.01 ₡ABIN (~4.2% of circulating supply)
• Budget: $396,000 USDC + 12,600 ₡ABIN

Technical Needs Proposal (Jan 2024):

• Total participation: 14,447.53 ₡ABIN (~3.4% of circulating supply)
• Budget: $200,000 USDC + 2,400 ₡ABIN

C. With no business models being actively pursued by NAP participants that are worth bringing to the DAO, why are you so confident that more investment in these efforts will all of a sudden unlock the elusive business model that allows Cabin to profit off the community of neighborhoods?

@savkruger

3. Are there any examples of “viable revenue opportunities” that are being actively pursued by NAP participants?
A few nascent projects are being explored, but nothing that I’m confident pitching the DAO about yet. Most revenue stream explorations are being done by Grin and Jon + soon Dahveed with his Ideation Pod.

More related insight and questions that have been unaddressed are also shared here:

• How was Cabin funded as an organization?
• How can Cabin compensate contributors in a fair way?
• Cabin Labs 1st year retrospective
• Cabin governance quorum discussions

Appreciate you taking the time to share more insight and engage in these dialogues @jon