Similarities between Fishing and the Steemit social media [Steemit Game Development Proposal]

To go fishing, you need some amount of time, and water, of course.
So let's see the similarities in an ordered list:

• you need time to do it (makes no sense to go fishing for 5 minutes a day)
• there is a luck factor, depending on what kind of fish comes
• there's also an ability factor (preparing the right bait and equipment)
• it may be very important the choice of the right moment (you risk to find no fishes around or only tiny minnows)
• once the fish bites, you have to be clever to catch it, or you risk to lose it
• there are many small fishes and few big ones
• the small ones are easier to catch, but have low value
• the big ones are difficult to catch and less frequent, but they have high value
• your bait and equipment must be appropriate for the specific kind of fish you wish to catch
• everything happens in a few hours or in a whole day
• the more you get experienced the better results you get (when you're lucky)
• fishermen sometimes collaborate while other times compete each other
• you need patience (busy people don't go fishing, just buy the fish at the market)
• most of the time you're waiting, hoping that something happens soon
• action happens suddenly and in an unpredictable moment
• you need to find your right spot for fishing (niche), and change it depending on various conditions

image from Giphy

Is it a post against Steemit?

Of course it isn't. I am just making a funny comparison and if someone gets offended, there's nothing I can do.
In fact, there are also difference between Steemit and fishing.
Let me put them in another ordered list:

• also an illetterate may be able to fish without any problem
• to Steem you need some linguistic / writing skills
• a successful Steemer may not necessarily be able to fish, because it requires some manual, technic ability
• to fish you need to be outside and near water, to Steem you don't
• you can Steem with a smart phone, but you can't fish with it
• it's impossible to Steem with a fishing rod
• at the end of the day, you can measure easily your success looking at the bucket with the fishes you caught

To all the brave Developers out there

I think it would be great to develop an app similar to the one created by @mynameisbrian Steemit pond, but based on fishing.

Would be great to have the option to visualize, in real time, one or more Steemers as fishermen sitting on a pond and catching upvotes as different size fishes.

I'm a developer, but I don't know how much would take me to do it by myself, so if someone want to help, I would also pay SBD to have the script with the option to customize it with different graphics and sounds.

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