Just saw a tweet by @aggroed with which I 100% agree and so obvious for many of us on Hive.
#1 blockchain for gaming is now $hive. it's 18 cents right now. Consider your financial choices carefully.
This goes inline with what you said:
I think we need to focus on how we should facilitate creation of useful Hive apps (token creation is only one aspect of this).
I completely agree, Hive is a perfect blockchain for decentralized Games and Apps. Taking this opportunity let me share some thoughts and vision on this.
I have read your posts in the past how it is easy to connect to the blockchain compared to actually building the UI. But we lack proper guides to do so. Instead of attracting veteran coders, perhaps we can attract beginner or intermediate devs who are just learning and getting introduced to coding. If we had some guides that teach how to build Apps and Games on Hive that can be powerful. I am not a dev, but got introduced to coding here and can do basic scripts and read code. Maybe we can create a hub where builders/devs can share codes or maybe even sell them.
Educational aspect of Hive is really powerful. Perhaps more experienced devs can create quality tutorials or courses to build on Apps and Games on Hive and maybe even get these projects funded by DAO.
I would like to see something like an App Store, a hub that provides easy discoverability for builders of Apps and Games. Addition of Our Apps in Hive.blog is a great start. Perhaps we can add submit your Apps button where new Apps can have ways to be added there for more discoverability by users.
I like your vision for Hive. Thanks for everything you and your team do.
I definitely think it is important to improve the information available to Hive apps devs, but even more importantly, I think we need to improve the actual APIs available to devs and create more software tools and components that reduce the amount of coding work needed to create Hive apps . I believe we can make substantial improvements in this area. This would also make it easier for less experienced devs to create apps on Hive, of course.
100% agree!