Well, to be honest, in this post, I was thinking about the "real business" developing on HIVE, like an app, a game, or something similar, but it looks like a lot of readers understood it differently... 😃 Not even writing about the blogging side of HIVE at all... We need more apps for sure, and we need more quality apps like Splinterlands... That's our best entrance for the masses...
Anyway, I do agree that we need both sides in the social part of the equation, the creators and consumers...
Yes, I know you were referring to real businesses. To me, it was quite clear. And it may be true, if more entrepreneurs start dapps on Hive, and some of them become successful, that's a way to bring in users. But a user who doesn't want to become an entrepreneur, but rather wants to enjoy their time on Hive, may not like the constant push to start a business (and I'm not referring to your post here, just a trend I remarked lately more pronounced than in the past).
That's probably Hive's weakest point... As everything is focused on earning, and creating, but very little to consuming, and not just that, but the USER EXPERIENCE for doing that! We need more "features" to attract that kind of user...
Absolutely! We are quite poor at attracting outside consumers. I do a lot of "consuming", and most likely you do too because you have the manual curation project, but we are early adopters and accept the front ends and content as they are, but the gap is big if someone comes from outside, and most of them don't see a reason to have patience and stick around.