RE: Steem is Too Philanthropic an Earner
I'd classify Steem as randomly-philanthropic.... we've all gotten bigger upvotes for posts or comments that weren't any better than our usual... and applications like @dtube and @dlive... well, quality isn't even a question there.... you have more luck producing shorter videos consistently over great videos.
Who is the target market of Steem? Is it content creators? Is it content-consumers? Or are we all just statistics to entice Entrepreneurs to create their own SMT? Given the terrible searching options, I don't think it's content-consumers, and the random payouts regardless of quality, I don't think it's content-creators....
Personally though, I've got a couple of ideas to help Steem reach content consumers... but first I need to learn how to code...
“Randomlyphilanthropic”, love it!
Technically Steem is a social experiment, right? Otherwise [cough] Steem’s UX is poor by design [/cough].
There are already several open source which make setting up an own vertical easier than before and almost code-less.
That is very true... but to set up what I want to set up, the way I want it... I'll have to code it.
Maybe there may be other ways to get going and find validation. Ways “not waterfall”. Maybe a MVP is hackable with much less effort.
You wouldn’t want to code for months at something which nobody uses.