This is an interesting idea! I’m going to learn more about the way the Clubhouse platform works in terms of creating rooms and inviting / restricting attendance.
What I really like about Mintgate’s similar proposal is that it provided a platform agnostic tool that creators could use to gate content. Is this a tool that could be used similar to what Mintgate proposed, in that you could gate any link? Or is there something about the tool that restricts this to Clubhouse?
My feedback here would be the same as to Mintgate’s proposal. Looking at what Rally did in supporting Jauz or Cloth with grants to develop tools that integrate with Creator Coins…is to support (fund) the development of the product, and then allow creators to pay for the ongoing maintenance/use. If that’s not feasible to get the project off the ground, then I believe Rally would fund reasonable costs to trial the project for 3 months or so.
My thinking (and these are only my opinions!) is that tools used by a subset of the network should generally be sustained by that subset. If this proves valuable to Creators that use clubhouse, then I’d expect them to be happy to pay some amount for a useful tool that adds value to their offerings. And, even better is that if it turns out that more and more Creators take on the tool or you expand the use cases beyond Clubhouse, then those running the project (you) will benefit much more, and will have stronger incentives to add features and improve the product than if Rally were to simply fund ongoing maintenance.
Tl;dr For this low cost of something like 10k RLY(give yourselves some breathing room) and given what you’ve already built, I’d definitely support giving this a trial run for 2 months. May want to budget in 3 months since time flies. I’d also strongly encourage you to think about ways to monetize the product(saw some ideas in the responses) independently of funding from the Rally community by expanding the utility of gating content beyond Clubhouse rooms. You should reach out to Mintgate, if you haven’t already connected with them through the dev community.
Good luck! - Grand