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CASE STUDIES · 2022

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.

FUNDS Rescue 2022 Wind Down

At a glance

Engagement Rescue

Industry [Venture Capital / DAO](/industries/finance/)

Stage Seed

Engagement size Fixed price

Year 2022

Stack

Typescript React Solidity Butter CMS

Status Wind Down

Live [www.ftwdao.com](https://www.ftwdao.com/)

## 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.

## What call did we make?

### 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

### NFT mint - Shipped
- **Category:** Speed

### 0 devs needed - Post-launch CMS edits
- **Category:** Signal

Want outcomes like these on your build?

Fixed scope. Fixed deadline. Signed SoW.

[Get in touch](/contact/)

## 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.

## Tech Stack

- [Typescript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/)
- [React](https://react.dev/)
- [Solidity](https://soliditylang.org/)
- [Butter CMS](https://buttercms.com/)

## Tags

- Venture Capital
- DAO
- Social Impact

## Links & Resources

[FTW Ventures Website](https://www.ftwdao.com/) [FTW DAO](https://www.ftwdao.com/dao)

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- [Custom Software Development](/services/software-development/)

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