Well, that is the question I ask myself, actually.
On TRON, the community is really shattered, and usually this also happens among the developers.
We know the CYCLE that developers make good products/dApp, which attract users, which in turn attract developers to build further good products/dApp for the users, so on. This is about making the stone foundation for TRON, and that is making the developers’ journey as easy as possible.
Each developer at the moment usually needs to create their own tools, on testnet, like:
handler resources on TRON testnet, comuputation of bandwidth, energy, parameters Network
a DEX with v2 or v3 with contracts, and maintained
an NFT contract deployer
a shield smart contract dApp
multisign repo to change permission
so on…
This is NOT just about some example of dApps that should be created and maintained on the testnet, the main ideea is to create a short path for developers and fasten the development cycle for a dApp/product/wallet on TRON.
So the main ideea is that the community will maintain knowledge and share it in order to boost the products/services that are developed on TRON
This is rather as a center point of starting and I would love rather to go further with problems or situations that other developers encounter and try to provide solution on a specific problem.
One of the specific problems that I encountered was the energy and bandwidth needed to deploy a smart contract on testnet, which usually was more expensive than the 5k TRX the faucet gives daily, so we created a bot that I previously used in testing over @TronCommunityBot, and I made the bot available to share energy and bandwidth for free within the @TronDevHub in the telegram group.
Anyone, including yourself, is welcome to come with solutions or problems to help developers further!
We miss a good foundation for a community of developers, that’s why we are not requesting any funding for now, once we start creating and helping and solving real problems, step by step, for the developers, and grow big enough we could look into developing further and maybe create a funding model to self-sustain the community.
I enter the TBL with the idea that the cycle that TBL takes is big enough and it might crash the developing process of even good products by missing the:
infrastructure needed - we might need servers to run our products (here we could ask for vouchers/credits on different clouds as it was for Google Cloud to boost further the developing)
energy and bandwidth needed to deploy on the mainnet - here maybe energy grants can be share so developers won’t stop the process although first a full working app on testnet should be available
access to TRON Node (we already have TronGrid and TronQL) but in case of a specific TRON node without rps(request per second) limitation
access to resources
We won’t ask for salary or any funding that is not part of the development process
So we might consider asking for funds to let the development process continue, including any other TBL submission
Tronpower is here to support builders and developers with our dedicated testnet energy market ( meant for education and developers).
Our learning hub also serves as a consolidated source of information.
As for energy needs on mainnet , Tronpower’s innovations delivers the best prices for buyers and sellers , so anyone can check us out and feel free to reach out!
I completely agree that speeding up the development cycle is key. It’s one of the biggest challenges when building new tools for the TRON ecosystem.
Hell yes! I don’t think it’s just a possibility anymore — it’s the reality. Waiting around for communication or support from TBL has led to delays or even the death of many great projects. And let’s be honest, early-stage projects (like most in TBL) can’t afford to sit around for 7 or 8 months waiting for funding. Time is money. Believing in TBL ended up doing more harm than good and nearly wiped out the momentum of the TRON dev scene.
Another serious issue, especially on the DEX side of TRON, is the loss of “momentum” or “hype.” No matter how good a dApp is, if there’s no support to help it gain traction, the project dies. I hoped TBL would solve that — but it actually made things worse.
So here’s my take: Along with speeding things up, big projects should consider supporting smaller ones in a simple and low-effort way — just by posting about them on their larger social media channels. That alone could make a huge difference.
We just reserved the domain as I believe we should have a nice brand from scratch!
But the website is not and will take some time to become active, maybe later on the road!
Mention that this is an address specifically to developer.s
I am interested in what kind of support you would expect from TBL ? Only money I guess because exposure is a need rather than TRON
This has been from scratch, not a hackathon, but rather the info was from the beginning, that is, long term, plus is really hard to check whether a starter is not just a way to cash in some money and leave, as most of the projects in the hackathon did. I think the test of time is also an important factor. There is a lot of tech stack that could hep these days to start with little to no cost, such as github, vercel, TRONGRID for blockchain interactions. But if anything else is needed we are here if we can help each other that would be great
I totally agree with you on this one, so you should start a submission if you really believe in it and if you know that in the future it will pay you back.
Developing is not a sprint, but rather a marathon , we don’t need to pump and dump , we need to build and if the idee catches the attention is perfect if not, we can adapt it
Unfortunately, marketing will NOT be a priority for us as the focus is on developing but if you look for users on TRON is a bit harder to be honest, you must build your own community, so rather bring users with you on TRON in my opinion that would definitly track TBL attention as they are looking to increase the user base.
A constant presence on all social media X, reddit teelgram discord help you gain traction little by little if you are looking for a free but of course you can look for paid version not sure how many real users would convert though.
In my opinion, TBL could help you with funding but otherwise not sure what other suppport it can offer as visibility you will gain only after being big enough.
Big projects usually support as I saw but if you worked a lot on your community and you brought user by user, it will be hard for you to support a start-up as the possibility to fail or being a scam is high…
Overall I am looking to address each problem at a time and if a solutionj applies also to other I am more than happy to share!
salary
, we don’t need to pump and dump 
, we need to build and if the idee catches the attention is perfect if not, we can adapt it