It took me 228 days to reach 1000 followers on STEEM. If I had grown at a similar rate, I'd be at 1500 followers in 342 days. But it took me much less and I'm happy to see my rate of growth improving. I especially like the growth of followers as it naturally leads to more upvotes, comments and resteems. There is an old internet saying that "A subscriber is worth a thousand views". I wrote a post sharing my steemit wisdom when I reached 1000 followers. I decided to do the same for 1500 milestone too.

How is Developing?

The next month begins with the release of EOS MainNet and ther are many competitors that are getting into the Social Media + Blockchain landscape including including Facebook which isn't really going to succeed. I've talked about their trail of privacy invading patents and how even dealing with it is distracting people from much grave problems. You need some real developments and improvements to survive and prosper in a free market. I think Github is a great place to look at. You'll have a good idea about what's going on behind the curtains even if you are not a programmer.

• Here is how things are going on with Smart Media Tokens.
• here is what is going on with Hard Fork 20

Here are the top programming languages that are being used:

If you look at the last 3 months worth development on CryptoMiso you'll see that STEEM/SBD ranks way ahead of Ethereum. But EOS takes the crown as the #1 which isn't surprising.

Overall I think STEEM is doing okay with everything. I've offered my suggestions on a different way of marketing and I've asked for a "Dislike" Button that could be really great to have. With SMTs coming I see so many things that can be done on the most active blockchain on Earth (which could get dethroned before the end of 2019 due to EOS). Unfortunately I don't see many individuals/groups aggressively following these possible paths. Personally I've really come to admire what @musing and @blockdeals are doing. They are both doing something different that is also useful.

https://musing.io is Pretty much Quora/ Yahoo Answers on Blockchain.
https://blockdeals.org is a growing lands of deals to find which does require some better UX for search and navigation which could be helped with future STEEM dvelopments.
https://www.parley.io has been a great way to share knowledge and I use it pretty much every day. Here is a post I made about it.

Welcome The Best Search Option for STEEM: https://steemlookup.com

This isn't a problem Exclusive to STEEM. Games and Movies/TV and most other industries are facing a problem when it comes to digging out great content.

@curie has not created the perfect tool. But what they've made is greatly helpful or at the very least it is a fun tool to play around and come across some nice stuff. If you like messing around with a website https://steemian.info by the witness @drakos is also great pick. It's also a great place to learn about STEEM and the website feature many additional tools. Everything about the site is noob friendly. Check this article for an example: https://steemian.info/keys It is very comprehensive and it gets the job done without dumbing things down.

If you like to play around tools, Then Here's MOAR!

https://helloacm.com/tools/steemit 23 Online Utilities + 10 Chrome Extensions + Many more

Most of the cool stuff related to STEEM are brought to you by witnesses and this one is from @justyy who is from China. We are seeing some competitors from China with https://tron.network and https://yoyow.org which actually use Graphene technology and the team has several people who were involved with Bitshares. Personally I'm interested in both projects because unlike bound to be failures such as https://mith.io Tron and YOYOW has great tech and vision behind them and personally I'm very impressed with how TRON is handling their marketing and promotions.

I even joined the ICO on through Binance only to see the Chinese ICO ban. I don't hold any TRON but I do think it'd be a bigger deal than https://www.ono.chat/en/ which is going to be on EOS. In fact I'm not hugely intersted in being on any other social media platform until @dan himself build a new one.

Now here is a cool trick @dedicatedguy showed me where you can dig a bunch of information: https://steemdb.com/api/accounts?account=username You can see things like how many MVESTS are held by your followers

Explore 168 and counting Tools on http://steemtools.com

That is really a lot of stuff and i think this is the greatest strength possessed by STEEM at the moment. There is a lot of sunk cost and a lot of work put into building stuff. All these creations tend to tackle different areas. @dlive is radically different from @zappl for an example. Everybody is trying to do something different and capture new audience. Anybody who is going to build something outside of STEEM has to compete and I hope that the devs won't act like the Bitcoin Core and embrace change and efficiency.

A little bit of Bragging

These achievements barely felt anything. I was just going about my business and end up discovering that I've done pretty great. Like other social media and life AFK, only a few has become starts on STEEM. There are only 8K minnows like me and only 37 whales on STEEM. So despite being a minnow I ranked pretty well :-)

Top 0.5% in Followers
Top 0.05% when it comes to reputation
And Top 0.3% in Effective Voting Power

Finally An Apology

I've been diagnosed as an ENTP. It's a type that tend to juggle a lot of stuff and generally tend to be ceaseless multi-taskers. Here is a quote from an online post on Why You’re Still Single Based On Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type:

ENTP
You’re single because: You’re not. You’re probably already in a couple of relationships that you’ve just forgotten about.
You’ll get into a relationship when: Your INFJ wife tracks you down and demands to know where you’ve been for the past six years.

It has some real truth to it. Many times I mention that I'm writing a Part 2 or 3 or more and end up not writing them. Sometimes I just loose track of them and many times it is a simple case of me starting a post and the post getting too long with too many additional content and tangents and end up having to continue in a newer post. @jaichai calls this OBE (Overcome By Stuff). So accept my apologies for any of the work that I haven't finished/delivered. Also I'd like to apologize in advance for my future unfulfilled promises. I'll try but I won't give any guarantees. If I could do that I'd get a decent desk job (and before that a college degree of some sort).

Thank You for your support! Sorry for the inconveniences :-) Happy Steeming !!! And Wish You All MASSSSIVE Profits :-)

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