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RE: I told my YouTube audience "COME TO STEEMIT!"
One of the interesting things about Steem is that because it's money-based, it's very easy to informally delegate tasks out to people for small payment, even paying in upvotes if you have large voting power. There are loads of people who would jump at the opportunity for a small regular income such as by transcribing videos.
I would be interested in finding out how I might set something up like that
The way it's done now, you make a post tagged with #steemgigs.
Something along the lines of this:
is the amount paid based on payment through upvotes, or i just "transfer" X number of SBD to the person per video through the wallet?
Up to you.
You could pay in upvotes if you have a big vote.
You could make transfers manually with the wallet page.
You could add them as a benefactor, giving them a percent of your payouts automatically. There's a tool on SteemWhales.com that allows you to create posts with benefactors who get a share of the rewards.
Ahh Christ... looks like another week of 18 hour days coding to get my new app out before @davidpakman finds another avenue to get this sorted.... ;)
Paying via upvotes has been on my mind too, but since you're already working on that I focus somewhere else. When can we see what you've been cooking?
:) Well I've probably shelved the anti-vote farming idea for a while, as it seems there's been a strong community outcry about it, so hopefully it can be collectively nipped in the bud now.
What I'm working on is a steem version of a really popular Australian website called Airtasker (there's also a US version from Amazon). You post tasks that you need done, and a suggestion for how much you are willing to pay, and then people make offers to do your task for whatever amount they are comfortable with. The only difference here is that because of the transparency of the blockchain, everyone can find out how much everyone else is offering to do the job. So it's going to be very free market. I guess that fits the ethos of steem, so it could be a good fit.
edit to add: It's going to be with steem/sbd. We need as many services and products available in steem currency to really allow it to start generating organic value.
Interesting. Could I pay for the work with upvotes over long periods of time and it would be automated? I'd like to see more use cases for upvotes.
It's something to consider. At first it's going to be straight out payment. But if there's a way to work an upvote service into it, that could be something to explore. A lot of the bigger apps seem to have either a powered up bot to support the project's supporters, and/or a curation trail that supports supporters. Whenever I make a post over at chainbb I get like 70 upvotes (but unfortunately only for a few cents... ;) ).
This fits in with one of my projects I'm currently developing, but which has taken a back seat to my notification apps. I was actually hoping to have the next week off from coding, but every time I see someone mention something that fits in with one of my projects, I feel like I have to immediately bring it to "market".. ;) I'm wearing myself out, i think. Programming 18 hours a day isn't good for the body or mind...
But aren't Steemit Inc already working on making notifications better here?
Yes, we're working on a major overhaul of the notifications system that should be ready soon.
Community Liaison, Steemit
Ok, that's good to know. It will make it easier not to renew my server contract next month. It's been pretty expensive creating notifications for the platform, with very little support from the community (unlike say the massive support heaped on trivial and inane feature suggestions for steemit via utopian.io)....[/whinge] ;)
Who knows? You'd think that would be the first thing they'd do on a social networking like site. But here we are a year later and they still haven't done it. As it is, my notification app is at a standard where I'm happy to leave it for a while and work on other stuff. Or do nothing for a bit, which would be nice too... ;)
I've read that they should be introducing the new notification system before the end of this year. What does interest me is this other app of yours, you aren't on steem.chat?
Not much. I'm registered there, so if you tag me I'll get an email. I'm close to finishing this other project in at least a basic form, and to be honest, that's about as good as I want to make it. Eventually some developers will do a full on professional job of it, so I don't really want to waste too much of my time only to be crushed by a more professional outfit. Maybe in about two weeks I'll be able to release something.