dApps built on hive that are niche specific is where the real growth is going to happen. It's far easier to niche down what someone is interested in instead of being so general so I fully agree with the next moves in marketing and it's one of the things I've been screaming myself for a long time.
A very small percentage of the world wants to write a 500 word article every day and of that most are lucky if they make a few pennies from it. Not the greatest method of growth for sure.
I think there are a lot of cool things happening though and each has its strong points.
3speak is solely focused on decentralization above anything else and they are doing a good job at getting there. The issue is it lacks other development outside of this at least for the moment.
Leo is more focused on marketing and growth.
While all other development works feels very dev heavy and not front facing. So I almost feel like hive fest should focus on one or two major things.
The first being a possible hackathon with rewards in which new dApps would be started up and launched.
The second being applications that exist to showcase and launch something big and new on their platform for the event to bring up the hype level.
Overall though it was a good event. It honestly reminds me of start up events I've been to and managed for companies over my life. Where they are just getting started but the possibility for growth is massive if they start hitting the right moves. That's going to be very hard in a decentralized system but hopefully we can pull it off.
That is all true and good ideas.
However, infrastructure is required for applications to truly be successful. Right now, without smart contracts, we are rather limited.
Is this something our core devs are working on? To be fair I never really understand half the stuff they are talking about and what the goal of it is.
Smart contracts are going second layer so that isnt the core devs. Much of the work on the chain is to keep scaling and making the operations as easy for app devs as possible. That is the reason for HAF. This allows non blockchain devs to get the data from chain without having to worry about updates to the blockchain. That is handled by blockchain devs who feed HAF. That is updates so the apps only need to maintain the connection to HAF and all new is instantly added.
That is just one example. We have to make it easier for devs to get into blockchain.