Yeah yeah, sounds like a joke, but I mean it, really!

Is there any complete guide on how to apply for a grant anywhere? Because apparently, you need to know to which track to apply, and it is written somewhere on one single page in the internet and you have to search for it.

Then, you have to somehow know, that if you have milestones - you have to split payments in your request. And even if you know about that somehow before applying (again, there is 0 info about that except but in declined proposals), you need to figure out HOW to split your payments. I'm still in the process, btw. There are different threads in the internet where people are talking about actually calling extrinsics with calculating your money request with hexes, and this is just incredible - after all these years there is no UI-based method to do that, serously?

And even after that, if you submit - your proposal may somehow "run out of time", which appppaaaarently means that you have to provide some kind of decision deposit.

And yes, each time you apply for a grant, you pay money to do so, so if providing 0 info is like a strategy to make people commit tens of proposals one by one because the process as obscure as possible - this is a fun way to do so, but really - I've spent a day trying to figure out how to do that, and still not sure I'm going to do everything correctly. So just curious, maybe there is a nice little article somehwere that would guide me through? :)

I'm like... I've been nearly 10 years in IT, majority of my time - in crypto, in Web3. I've been deploying whole parachains with different set of pallets, including self-written ones. I think I'm not that stupid, but trying to apply for a grant I'm feeling as dumb as ever, and I'm so sooooo surprised, how much effort you have to put to apply here.

So yeah.... If anyone have the guidelines that are somehow not googlable - please, send me the link, I can't bear this anymore :)))