FTW Ventures
Stalled NFT mint and CMS rescue, shipped, handed off, no devs needed for content.
FTW.DAO was a venture DAO building toward a $1B ecosystem fund for diverse-led teams, training talent to find top founders and connect them with investors. The project has since wound down.
Overview
FTW.DAO was a venture DAO building toward a $1B ecosystem fund for diverse-led teams, training talent to find top founders and connect them with investors. The project has since wound down.
What's the challenge?
A stalled in-house dev team. An NFT mint page off-design and unable to ship. A website with no CMS, so every paragraph edit required engineering the org didn’t have. Finish what someone else started, then hand back a site the team could run themselves.
They wanted to switch to us. We told them not to.
The client asked us to take over, their in-house team had stalled and they were ready to switch vendors. We ran the math: ramp time, reverse-engineering, lost context. Recommended they keep their team and let us coach them through delivery instead. Less budget for us, less disruption and delay for them.
What We Did
Rescued an in-flight project against an undocumented codebase. Managed the existing dev team to the finish line, shipped the NFT minting page with the new design, and treated ButterCMS as a first-class deliverable, not an afterthought. Reallocated a slice of the feature budget to do it. The org got an NFT mint they shipped and a site non-technical staff could update without calling a developer.
Outcomes
What We Learned
Taking over a half-built project is always messier than starting fresh. The real cost is decoding undocumented decisions. We now start every rescue with a 2-day codebase audit before committing to a delivery timeline.
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