How unique is @gavanwoolery? Would something like 'reverse kickstarter' be viable for building an engine and small game out of this? I for one would happily don

How unique is @gavanwoolery? Would something like 'reverse kickstarter' be viable for building an engine and small game out of this? I for one would happily donate for any programmer building this towards an OSS-engine and demo game. If we 'instruct' the programmer to build MVP-api's could something like that work? Then others could pick that up and build from there. I know I am massively underestimating the thousands of hours put in and to be put in, but somebody any ballpark on hours etc?