Steepshot refers to a Blockchain-powered and censorship-resistant social platform that can be used to share cool photos with your family and friends while earning steem tokens through upvotes, curating and engaging with the community. It’s the very first photo sharing steem powered social platform where all rewards are generated by the Steem Blockchain. Steepshot users can earn Steem and Steem dollars which can be easily exchanged for fiat. At the writing of this blog Steepshot is ranked number 104 on the state of the Dapps

How to get started

Getting started with Steepshot needs you to have a steem account. Don’t have one? You can quickly get a quick one through steem.ninja with just $2.5 or get yourself a free one through Steemit.com though with the later, you will have to wait for 7days for it to be approved. If you have a steem account then proceed by getting your private posting key from your Steemit wallet.

Note that:
Steepshot has the Android app and Web app version. (iOS). For the Android app, you will need to download it from Google play store.

For the Web version

Check out the video below showcasing how to get started on steepshot

1. Simply go to the Steepshot website
2. Enter your steem user name.
3. Login with your private posting key.
4. Click create a post- then upload the photo you want to upload from your computer to the app.

What are the components or features of Steepshot?

The Features of Steepshot

Share to Steepshot app

This feature enables you to post your photos directly from your device Gallery to Steepshot making uploading of photos easier and faster.

Promote your Post

This feature enables you to get your post to the top and acquire more visibility, grabbing the attention of many to your post and account in general and it’s available on both the Android app and iOS.

Share posts to other social media sites

There are three dots located on the top right corner of your post which when clicked enable you to share your steepshot post to other social media sites including Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Vk, LinkedIn, Reddit which enables your followers from those sites to view your photos.

Web Version

Android Version

Unlimited tags

With Steemit you are limited to only 5 tags but with Steepshot you can use more tags up to 20 tags.

User-friendly Mobile Wallet

You do not need to go to your Steemit account to check for your funds, you can check your account balance and claim rewards on the Steepshot application.

Mobile and Web push notifications

You are notified with whatever is happening with your account including follows, comments, and upvotes on your post. You can as well subscribe in order to obtain updates from a certain user to be aware of his/her new posts.

Searching for Users and tags

Steepshot’s searching tool feature enables you to find posts on different topics that interest you. To do so you simply type in the necessary hashtag to locate what you need. There are three sections that pop up that is Hot, New and Top posts published by the various Steemians. You can as well search for users according to their steem username.

A powerful NSFW feature

This protects your family eyes and enables you to enjoy what you are seeing. You have the liberty to post whatever you feel like whether pornographic, violent, horror photos, these contents are termed as NSFW and require you to use the NSFW tag. Some people have negative views about such content therefore in order not to get flagged you need to use the NSFW tag for such content.

Explore Content seamlessly by pressing any tag.

With Steepshot app, you can explore various contents posted by other Steepshot users by simply clicking on any tag of your taste.

Full-screen Mode in the Web app

On the Web application, you can view photos in a full-screen mode, Slide through them as you reward them with upvotes.

Photo Editing

You can choose a convenient format for Carousel photos, rotate pictures and crop them.

My experience (the positive and negative aspects of Steepshot)

People in this world love taking photos and sharing moments with their loved ones. There are many social media photo decentralized applications Such as Appics. According to my judgment and experience with Steepshot, It’s a very outstanding Dapp due to its being user-friendly, On the other hand, it still has some few issues such as high internet data consumption and disruptive freezing of the application at some points while posting using the Android app.

My star rating for this application

I give this application a 4/5 star rating and recommend every photo and crypto enthusiast to try this app out.

The images in this post were extracted from the Steepshot account blog