The refugee app sounds interesting. Is that through your work?

I hear you on the running of contests. It is a lot of work and the rewards are not always much. I have been running contests through the Freewrite House now for a long time and it is like a full-time job with very little pay.

In reality, the big accounts have tons of people who are trying to get their attention. And they already have their friends and favorites. And the little accounts can't give much of an upvote - even if they want to.
If you do a contest again, I suggest you give away SBI as prizes. that way, it helps you build your account as well and in the end, is a much better thing to have than a little bit of Steem. The upvotes keep on coming. It is a long term investment, but if we all hope that Steem will go somewhere - then it is the way to go.
Also, you seem to be doing very well with your DTube posts, so, keep doing what works for you.
And about the learning something. A lot of the things you have learned have no meaning in my world (like anything having to do with coding and such) so, it doesn't stick in my brain. And I read tons of posts - so, by the time a week has gone by, I probably already forgot what you had learned - after all, that is yours to remember, not mine LOL