It's hard to attract devs because of money. Hive is under 200M market cap and the barrier of entry for the DHF is very high.
Once in a while someone adventures trying to get a cut of the fund but eventually fails and get discouraged. The standards and difficulty to get are way too high and then the pay for it is too low for most beginners (need reputation here to get good pay)
It is a tough sell to onboard devs, but that definitely is a must and we do need more devs, I am just not sure how we could do that.
On the upside, we have many dev tools and libraries to make the job easier, it is impressive for such a "small" blockchain
1 million is not enough to start from some place? I think it is.
Not everyone can get 1 million in funding like that guy and I think he is, sadly, trying to onboard new users instead of new devs
My "we need devs" is about something like the account valueplan to onboard devs, not single dev proposals. Give them something to start and let them do the rest or pay them to dev something already in mind, for example an app for simple onboard, manage keys, make this process completely easy and ready to use for new users.
Don't even talk about smart contracts, there are lots of things to improve and do in dev area.