In my opinion, and I've been thinking about this project quite a bit, this is an awesome initiative. I'm always thinking about the following problem:
There are many people who write good content but they go unseen because they are unable to raise themselves into the front-pages, in front of the eyes of the readers. And there are so many creators of average-to-low quality creations that it's practically impossible for the average Steemian, without some active effort, to meet these high-quality creators.
I always wonder then how best to create an interface that improves this situation. The possible solutions are plenty, but they require some effort. One of them would be a centralised front-page run by a team of curators, or a group of centralised front-pages and you just decide which curators you want to curate the content that you see. And another one is this, we don't simply select who gets to the front pages of each tag and gets high rewards, but we let those who we consider to be good to help themselves by giving themselves big upvotes.
There is a big debate about self-votes, but I think that big self-votes on good content should be promoted instead of rebuked as some people do sometimes. I also think that you yourself, Acidyo, have fallen for this debate. Sometimes I see that you have an excellent contribution to a thread, but there are 100 comments above, and you just don't like self voting so you comment and leave it down there for no one to see. Whenever I notice this, I give you a little bump for others to meet you, but I'd rather you also did it yourself if you think your comment deserves more views than the others (again, quality deserves rewards).
Overall, I think that the birth of this project gives a lot of thought to the efforts that have been made by curators such as Curie, OCD, TheSteemEngine, etc., and we should get together to build a platform that takes the best out of each side and puts it together. I'd be willing to help with that if necessary, as I know some things about website building, but let's think and talk over what needs to be done to further the advantage that we have gained with the addition of @ocdb.
You're right, a project like that would be amazing and I think @steemstem are on the right track for their own tags with that on their front-end. I hope the one @ned is building will be great for what you're proposing. As you said @ocdb is not so much for attention as it is for helping authors get started and grow faster than say authors that are only trying to write low quality content and still profiting from it. It's a long way until we start noticing the effect of these but the good thing about @ocdb is that the more delegation it gets the more authors and bigger votes it allows for them to place.
But yeah, what you're suggesting is something that requires a whole team of devs I think, hmm.
I think I could singlehandedly build a big portion of it hahahah. Maybe I'm overconfident in my skills. But yes, there would be a need for a few devs at least, there would be a ton of stuff to do, not just the backend.
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Yes, we are definitely on this track but a bit stalled for the moment. We are trying to get investors (delegators) on board (and as ocdb, we are giving back (a significant fraction of) the curation rewards to the delegators) so that this could allow us for hiring a dev full time. For now, this is what blocks us unfortunately: no dev no new investor.