I guess I have found my new heroes :0)
I hope you do realize what an impact this app could have...
Yesterday, I told your colleague that I noticed you had already convinced joeparys. He used to be a professioal marketer, you know. Could always come in handy.
I'm dropping some notes here and there, because I think when you've got your final product, you guys deserve a promo campaign of the same professionalism as steemmonsters... at least.
I can understand you want to try to get the design right yourself - I would feel the same - but the project deserves a huge , professional promo campaign.
And for the design, i'm not an expert, just know the basics, but in the past I earned a living from buying unstyled scripts , give them a makeover and built a website around them.
As I say I am not an expert, and my knowledge is limited, but if you need help figuring out how to get the design done, I would be happy to maybe brainstorm with you and share my limited knowledge with you...
Maybe I should start looking for existing easy-to-follow guides people can use to get to learn how exactly they can earn money through the app - or maybe I should start writing some myself.
It would be a shame to lose potential users, simply because there's not an easy tutorial around. I might have an idea for a quick and informative intro but for that, i need to find out more about HF20 and the changes that come with it first...
We're still far from a "final product" but the idea is taking shape. I also think that it's the marketing that will make the difference (but that's not my area, I'm a developer not a communicator, that's more @sebbbl's subject). But I'm very happy about the returns we have and the encouragements we're getting. We have no doubt about the potential "game-changer" this app is and that's why we're spending a lot of time on it and won't stop until the product is "finished".
For the design, I was really occupied with back-end programming so I couldn't spend too much time on front-end, but that will be changing next week so I will have much more time for that. But let's speak on Discord to see if you have some general idea about what you'd like to see, what is your idea of something that could be "marketable".
And for the guide, we're gonna make a quick and easy-to-follow video explaining how to use our service (once the design is a bit more "established" so we don't have to make a new one every three days :D ) but nothing on Steem as a whole (at least for now).
I don't know a lot about coding, but experimented with some simple scripts a couple of years ago. It's perfectly normal that you need a script to work before you spend time on the design.
When it comes to promoting it once it's finished, I think it wouldn't cost a lot of effort to convince some 'big guys' to help you out with that. They will see the potential.
But there's no need to rush into things: you"ll be better off with a finished and working script before you start a huge promotion. You don't want people to find bugs, because that has a negative effect on the user experience and will effect your credibility.
One step at a time will brinhg you a long way.
I already decided I will be delegating some SP after the offical release. It won't be a huge deal, but I assume every little bit would be useful once you start with the curation trail.
I think it would be a good idea to post about improvements pretty often, so people who have enough SP to give out bigger delegations can follow up. Plus, it'a a way to grow your own SP
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Thanks in advance for the delegation.
You said it all. For now, we're focusing on having a viable and finished product to ensure a smooth user experience and no annoyance that could make us lose a lot of users as the smallest bug nowadays can make a "customer" leave at once and never come back. Here, being already part of an experiment, people are much more open and understand that nothing is perfect at first try.
When that is done we will focus on the marketing side (making the site as beautiful and pleasant as we can and promoting it the best we can, and of course we will solicit all the help that is offered to us).
For the updates, as there's is still a lot of things to do, they will be regular, don't worry about that.