Viewly ICO Starting - Decentralized Youtube Made by Furion from STEEM!
@furion has made steemdata.com and worked on python library for STEEM. He is also known coder and witness on the network. At some point he has decided to make "decentralized youtube" which some people tested on STEEM already and now ICO time came - meet Viewly!
What is Viewly ?
The incentives between content creators, their viewers and advertisers are inherently misaligned. Viewers are bombarded with pesky ads. Creators sacrifice their substance for views. Advertisers lose due to inefficiencies in reach and rampant ad-fraud.
Creators build their tribe of dedicated fans, and receive Patreon like support trough frictionless micropayments and subscriptions. Creators can also sign sponsorship deals that are in-line with their fanbase best interests—with the on-chain escrow and no middleman.
Viewly will fix this, people uploading stuff will make money from watchers and advertisers will get a targetted audience. Everything clear and transparent on blockchain.
Summary
So we have Youtube on blockchain without middle man cuting fees and making deals. Video is already big on the internet and with faster connections, can get even bigger. Also this will be censorship resistant since Youtube bans loads of things or at least doesn't let them make money from advertisements.
Advisors
And this is another spot where this gets hot. COO of Bitstamp joined the board (one of the biggest European Bitcoin exchanges) and Rarez, a big youtuber known from Steem now too. Also Pon Kattera a known designer is among this crew.
Join Presale
This is not final ICO, this is early presale aka Pre-ICO there will be just a little tokens sold and it will be by using Ethereum (possibly when you read now sale is already running). Of course you need to send from your own wallet not from exchange! I suggest using ie MyEtherWallet or MetaMask addon for Chrome.
Website: https://view.ly/
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why did he chose to create his own blockchain? I mean, he got thousands of dollars in upvote and then create his own blockchain with it? That's just sneaky in my opinion.
Steem is an amazing piece of technology, and I don't plan to stop contributing to its ecosystem anytime soon.
As far as Viewly goes, after consulting with several content creators (our main users), we determined that we need to implement different economic properties, which is forcing us to seek solutions outside of Steem.
@furion you could have made an SMT with all the "economic properties" you wanted.
by using a new blockchain you are basically shunning Steem or you've lost faith in it. lets be honest.
this is not good news for us steem holders to have a competitor arise from one of the steem developers.
I am a Steem holder myself. I don't plan to abandon Steem anytime soon. Steemit has a fantastic team of talented engineers, an amazing community, a working product and plentiful resources.
Viewly isn't a competitor, rather, an experimental approach for a different medium.
@furion will you after ico and when SMT is fully ready switch to Smt?
great insight here; This looks like a dope platform; glad you chose to 'add more value' to Steem
He's not adding value to steem. Dtube is adding value to steem, not Viewly.
No he's not. How have things been going with Busy.org? What about the other so called projects running on the Steemit blockchain? I can't name any of them because no one uses them. No one uses them because if they want to use a STEEM-based application, they will use steem. Do you use Facebook? Firefox? Opera? Why would you use some weird third-party app made by some unknown coder when the real thing is readily available at the official home page?
People want standalone projects. When I hear announcements about new "projects" and apps and then find out that apparently they're running on the steem blockchain and thus aren't new projects at all, I simply stop reading and forget about them.
This on the other hand I got excited about since it's their own team, their own currency, their own plans and ideas. I tried DTube, but I realized it's the same thing as steemit on a different website which to be is just a form of additional marketing for steem. That is, it's still the same guys and authors being at the top, because it's steemit! Get it? There's little to zero difference.
Hey, if you want more advertising for steemit, then go do that. What I fail to fathom is why youre viewing new projects negatively. If you are that worried about steemit that when a big steem whale does a new project, you claim he's "lost faith in steem", then I think it would be a good idea to register another 10 websites that run on the steem blockchain that no one will use, but who perhaps will attract a couple dozen more people to use the ACTUAL steemit website which everyone uses.
Invite PewDiePie please. He's cool I promise
Really? you wanna make super to the moon?
Lol I can back up the fact that he's cool by pure math, he has over 55 million subs. That kind of audience will boost the whole decentralized economy.
I have read your Whitepaper and coincidentally have a similar idea , that i am trying to crowdfund, with no success (so by and in no way i am trying to advertise).
So i thought i just share my 2c in wrt business model maybe they will be of value to Viewly:
Such dividend will add a great transparency to the digicashflow and allow for easier Valuation.
Speaking of which - it would surely be north of $400mln
Me neither. What kind of economic features are you planning on building into it, just curious? 😀 😃 😄 😁 😆 I hope you have a WONDERFUL weekend!
It's an obvious cash-grab. It's not about competing or not being able to develop this within the STEEM ecosystem; it's about making money off of an ICO that won't go anywhere after the devs have absconded with cash and there is a pump and dump operation for investors to make bank on.
There's literally no reason for this application to exist in a new token, and even less of a reason for an ICO.
NO ONE uses or even considers using third-party on-chain Steemit apps. Why the fuck are you grilling this guy for NOT creating another useless Steemit "app" website which NO ONE will ever use? You seem mean. How's Busy.org doing? You've probably never even heard of it...
Do you download third-party versions of Google Chrome, Firefox, Facebook or Skype to your computer?
Are you mad?
I think: the main reason is due the existence of another concurrent project (Dtube) running on Steemit's Blockchain.
More freedom and becoming independent from Steem's success/failure.
To be fair, the more competition out there the better I say! And it doesn't have to be a full on competition, creators can create content or host the same content on multiple platforms for the most exposure. Everyone wins. If one of these technologies happens to come out on top, then they are simply doing the best job.
Also if certain platforms are censoring people, there will be others that will gladly mop up that bit of the marketplace and let the audience decide for themselves. Having multiple platforms instead of a monopoly will keep them honest, catering to the market and not the regulators.
Yeah it is kind of weird you're right.
furion is a hard worker. I will follow and keep up with this.
Thank you joseph.
The sale is a game changer for us, as now everyone in our team can leave their day-jobs and commit to Viewly full time.
That's great...it's a good news for people who are in rat race. Thanks @furion you are a hero genius.
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Absolutely true. It will be interesting to watch his progress.
Sure why not me too. You gotta keep track of stuff and see what happens. Who knows what will work and what will bomb out in the end? 😀 😃 😄 😁 😆 I hope you have a WONDERFUL weekend!
With the censorship and demonetization that is currently taking place on YouTube, I can see a great future for blockchain-based, censorship-free video platforms. But I still can't understand the concept of viewers depositing their crypto on these platforms to reward content creators.
Steemit works because Steemians can rewards others without incurring an expense!! Big difference right there.
I do like view.ly and @furion for sure - was considering this pre-ICO since days but decided to wait, am simply not a trader and no ETH expert - fingers crossed for all of you.
Me neither, I feel like I need an easy way to keep updated about this stuff on a daily basis you know what i mean? 😀 😃 😄 😁 😆 I hope you have a WONDERFUL weekend!
Hey kingscrown,
Thanks for the great content
Will follow this closely
waiting for pre-ICO for so long , and Finally its the day . Viewly seems promising platform . Surely going to invest some . Viewly has the best team :)
only 30 minutes remaining , cant wait !!
Competition is rising for who will be the next YT ...
100 million tokens !!!! OMG
Thank God for Viewly, we are all tired of being centralized with corporations like you tube and some other google apps. People getting their accounts suspended indefinitely sometimes for no reason and times because of not sharing their views because they think we are all SHEEPLEs to be controlled. I hope YouTube dies slowly eventually. Thanks for the post.
Is there a guarantee that googlization would not happen to Dtube like what happens to you tube
well if you put it like that then i have to accept to certain extent that its possible. The other thing to remember is that this is on blockchain so its transparent, if you don't follow the guidelines or rules stipulated and may be just go crazy and do things your way while offending others then you will get suspended. What you tube/google does is a form of bullying individuals and they are authoritarian about it and i think a lot out there find it unacceptable
Thugs always find a way to camouflage themselves. It is time to invent smart rules and regulations. What I mean by that is self aware regulations or I like to call it, living regulations that has its own conscious. We can invent new systems with new regulations benefitting from last century successful experiences and at the same time close all the holes that will bring some bogs and thugs to the system.