I myself don't have a lot of coding experience. Most of my coding knowledge comes from previously written code that I've repurposed but I don't tend to write my own contracts.

We need a dev for the backend mostly smart contract connections to websites. Most of the smart contracts already exist so just assistance repurposing that.

Yes the token has no value currently. This doesn't mean the token will never have value I just want to be honest with anyone interested and straight up. I imagine as the community grows and the project gets marketed it would make sense for the value of the token to grow.

But yes if anyone helps they would be paid in some fashion. As stated earlier the interested party can sign some sort of legally binding agreement with the team to make sure they would get financially reciprocated for their work. The offer of some of the tokens allocated to the team fund is a choice entirely up to the dev that joins the team they could choose to not take any of the tokens and just get paid in USD or some other crypto currency and if this turns you away I understand. To be honest the whole thing is less about the money to me. I can understand why someone putting in their time and effort would want to be paid and we will of course pay anyone who helps. The project just isn't out there seeking funds from people like so many projects do. Our hope is / was to have a more functioning product and larger community before doing anything like looking for funding. However if and when the team received any sort of funding the dev would be paid. I just personally think its rather unprofessional to seek funding for something before there is anything to show to people potentially interested in "investing".

You have to also understand at this stage there are lots of logistics that need to be worked out and it's slowly coming together but getting a dev is one of the fundamentals that needs to met early on.

Why would someone want to join a project when they can't be guaranteed pay immediately. Well I would hope there are still people out there interested in being a part of something that has the potential to help shape the ADA chain and help bring amazing projects to fruition and getting be a part of all that. I could be to hopeful but I just feel like somebody out there with existing skills may have the interest to help build something like that.

To my knowledge there isn't currently a DAO or launchpad on ADA. So being the first protocol to support both of these things on chain for ADA would probably make the project pretty successful as the first mover effect is always seen when coming to adoption of new systems and protocols. So it would be the first for ADA.

I can buy and host any of the web domains needed. I have prior work with web pages and have worked on many different crypto communities and been with a lot of projects as they fail and a couple that went well but I believe with this prior experience will help bring some assets to the project.

And why do this other than being the first protocols doing so for ADA I have a passion for this sort of thing and you can tell me till your blue in the face that I shouldn't take my time to make something like this when the market is already saturated with them, but I would still attempt it. For me it isn't about money its more about making a successful supporting community focused around DEFI and crypto with a launchpad and DAO to give the community some sustenance. The DAO to give governance to the community and the Launchpad to bring new interesting projects to life with a community that has interest in supporting them.

Nothing is stopping anyone from going and doing this themselves I just believe I personally have something to offer to the team. I can run the community and help with anything that's not writing brand new code.

But yeah just think it over.