Why does this need more than one dev? Is one person unable to handle this simple task?

Most devs are only going to use a few basic operations anyways. Most of these operations will not even be signed-which implies they can use curl or other similar mechanism without the need for beem. Still, between signed and unsigned api requests, Most operations will unlikely need any fixing so this is a part time job, perhaps even a do nothing job. $100k? Absolutely not.

Why do you need the DHF to give you roughly 50-60k in hivepower for testing? This reflects that people don't see the project as worth delegating RC in. There are only a handful of tx that are resource intensive. Ether the tx works and the RCs are used, or it fails and the tx aren't used. If, say, there is a sporadic bug in account creation whose cause needs to be isolated to then be debugged, I am sure there are not shortage of whales who would delegate the RCs. So there is no need or justification for this, this is likely an auxilary income stream that has nothing to do with maintaining beam. Additionally, you could invest your own pay into resolving the issue, then reclaim the investment.

Why do you need $250/month in a server if you are hosting on github. Even if you need a personal site, just host it on a local computer. You are only dealing with a chain of some 8k active users, and only a small niche does any coding. Not sure what the cost is for a static ip address in south America, but raspberri pis are still $35 (maybe a bit more for import taxes) and that's all you really need. I'm sure you ca reduce this budget by 80%.

Travel? This part is completely unnecessary. Stay home, or travel at your own expense. Marketing, no. This isn't the pope venue to market development tools. The chain only has some 8k+- active users, only a small niche are devs. Beem doesn't need to do anything for marketing except be mentioned in the hive developers webpage or discord. And to be honest, if you are planning to maintain the code, it shouldn't cost you a dime to produce code examples given that is residual code from maintaining the project. Nor do you have to make videos, let alone $4500 worth.

Please keep your valueplan styled scamming ass away from the dhf. Blocktrades wrote that he wants to use his success for altruism, and the dhf seems to have become the source of his charitable givings against literally all better judgment-and one has to question why he is funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to shysters across the third world, particularly countries that may be trade sanctioned. Does blocktrades have connections to the CIA? Who knows. Even SBF calls the water well projects a scam. Blocktrade is going to repeat the same mistakes that his bitshares project had if he doesn't exercise financial restraint.

We're doing well, busy on a lot of projects. As I've made more money, I've grown increasingly altruistic, however, and I think we've made enough to plan the project I'm truly passionate about nowadays (a web of trust based system), so I'm less sure about doing an IPO for BlockTrades nowadays, unless it turns out that development costs for the project are more than expected.

-Dan Notestein aka blocktrades
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=21509.msg339497#msg339497

The reason we have beem is because because signing tx tend to be arcane info. It's nice to have, but not worth 100k to upkeep. All developers need is to see, step by step, how a transaction is signed, with dummy initial values and expected outputs each step of the way, and ween themselves off of depending on other peoples code. Of course with a warning about seeking CSPRNG k values. It's literally that simple.The code is likely already in beem, Just Isolate it, do as instructed, and beem can die and a 100k expense can be avoided. That's how the real world works.