[Toutouxc]

> Heck, you could probably get free work from the kids themselves. There's plenty of people in education who would want to do odd jobs on it.

> Now maybe pay up for a few senior devs and a PM.

> platform for the people by the people

I think you're overestimating the abilities of "kids" and non-professional devs and underestimating the complexity of running that kind of show (thus underestimating the ratio of professionals/community necessary to pull that off). Notice how most successful open-source projects are in fact supported by tech companies and worked on by professional devs on those companies' payrolls, and how, despite that, most open-source projects still end up kind of chaotic.