First, I'm interested in your idea of developing an Open Source Dapp like Utopian in the past.

Utopian has a long history on Steem empowering professional developers, writers, analysts or content creators. But unfortunately they failed to raise funds on Indiegogo, so the project was forced to close.

Again and again that in any project that we want to develop, we need something called Crow Funding. Because funds are an initial requirement in project development, in addition to human resources.

A New Steem Dao will also be a good start that might be done by starting to accumulate various strengths and resources that you have.

Maybe a collaboration with https://fundition.io/ would also look interesting.

Maybe they need to lower the fee for transactions or update the Crow Funding program through their platform.