I remember the Steem price being really high, but that era seems like it was so long ago now. 😕 I joined Steemit in February, right after that big rush of excitement began to wind down. So my experience on the platform to date has been a never-ending story of the Steem price dropping lower and lower. Luckily, I'm not in it for the money (though I was initially lured onto the platform because I was told it would be great way to earn a bit of extra cash – har de har har 🙃🤣🙃🤣).
I really like the communities I've joined here and the people I've regularly interacted with. They have kept me here. If I were in it for the (non-existent) money, I would have left a long time ago! 😝 Still, I've been quietly building up my Steem and SP – I'm no bigshot, but I have a little nest egg stored away – so if it ever did turn into a money-spinner, I certainly wouldn't complain!
I joined when STEEM was around 50c at the time but didn't know much about it so didn't put any money in then. I'm happy enough to keep building my account regardless of the price even though i have probably bought about 500 quid over the time when prices were on the low side. Mostly now since I know a lot more about the site and what my investment is. I will watch the markets to try and earn money or take advantage of a price but for STEEM I will be constantly trying to accumulate and hold. I think it will take a few years to realize the potential on here but the signs are good right now.
I have used the actifit tracker since it was created and it pays me about 40c a day just to take steps. Very soon we are going beta testing it with fitbit trackers to read your activity and link to STEEM that way. It could be a huge app when it's ready to go to mainstream market. That's only my favorite one but there are plenty more in development right now.
The communities on here are brilliant and in time will be the driving force behind all of these apps and projects. That's the great thing about it. Just by being here you are part of the projects and have the potential to be payed from it if they do well. It would be nice to earn some proper money in the future but like you i'm saving mine up for now. If nothing else comes from it, i've learned a lot and met some great people on the site. So much more interesting than the usual social sites.