"Hive is ahead of the curve, but flying under the radar."
This is so true and has been the case for far too long. The LEO team and I are changing this in real-time. The ideas you talked about when it comes to giving these projects what feels like their own interface is truly the key. That's what we've done with the Dash community as you can see in this screenshot:
When a person from Dash signs up, they get the "Dash Theme" activated. This shows them the Dash colors on the https://inleo.io UI. When they see payouts, they are estimated in DASH. Our new Keystore wallet integration also allows them to sign up, sign in and interact with their Hive account using their Dash wallet.
We're in talks with the Maya Team, Thorchain, Thorchain interfaces, Arbitrum foundation, ChainFlip and a few other major crypto projects who all want the Dash integration copy/pasted for their community/ecosystems.
I believe Maya's will go live this week on INLEO. ChainFlip or Thorchain in the coming weeks.
The results of doing this with Dash prove that what you said in your post is spot on: we've seen a 3x in our user base since the integration. It's a MASSIVE surge in users and user activity. All of whom now have Hive accounts
Nice one! This is great news and I am hoping that they will start fleshing out their communities and discovering how they can reward their active user base through content development also. Would be great to see them find ways to improve their own distribution mechanisms also :)