Congrats on getting Distriator on the App Store. That's not a trivial thing, Apple's review process alone is enough to make most people give up. Having it on both stores is a big deal.
And I want to be clear, my post wasn't saying there are zero builders left. People like you are still here grinding. The problem is more about the ratio. For every person like you who's actively shipping and posting updates, there used to be ten more. And the community energy around new projects used to be way louder than it is now.
The fact that you have to put in extra time just to post updates on top of actually building tells me something is off with the incentive structure. Building should be the thing that gets rewarded, not the marketing of the building. But right now if you don't post about it, nobody knows it exists.
I'll give you a follow. Keep shipping
Well things I do, never did for funding.
These are 2 projects which I built without any funding.
Only passion & love.
There are more, I just need to set proper DNS settings. Projects like HiveDonate, HiveWitnessVote, HiFind - are built - just needs redeployment. I'll do soon.
I do publish updates every now & then.
That's great. But I think passion and love isn't sustainable for anything overly long-term that has operating costs. If your apps are cheap to run, then it's probably not a big deal. But if you're running apps that have unpredictable or ramping costs, sadly passion & love don't pay server bills.
But I am the same. I've never earned a cent from anything I do, it's just my time and absorbing the server costs myself. But I do think if the Hive community were more supportive of the cool and unique apps/tools here, it would create a better environment and attract other creators too.
There is so much fight for getting DHF.
And once you get funding, you attract so much discussions & of course those are valid ones most of the time, but at the same time such discussions are demotivating as well. People start throwing abuses.
So, for now, I keep building without DHF because I like ideas. If expenditures are growing exponentially, I'll re-evaluate & see what can be done.
DHF - I keep it for last resort 🤣
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For some people they don't have to fight very hard because they know they can easily get DHF funding, which is a huge flaw. And the state of crypto right now and dire liquidity situation of Hive, there really should be a mechanism to suspend Hive funding if I am being honest. We shouldn't be funding anything right now. The recent proposal to fund Claude Code for people to build on Hive really triggered me, to be honest, it seems like such a waste of money.
I love building for Hive, but man... it's saddening to see this place constantly shoot itself in the face with bad decisions, lack of transparency (which is ironic for a blockchain).
I will keep building on Hive for the love of it (I've never been compensated for anything I've done) and maybe one day that might materialise into some support. But this is definitely not the ecosystem if any dev is looking to be compensated for doing honest work. We only seem to compensated vague grifters who wow people with complex magical sounding ideas that don't go anywhere and do dishonest work.
It is what it is.
Yes. I know & I can also say - it is what it is.
but it doesn't stop me from trying.
Right now, This Bhagwad Gita's Verse, keep me going.
It simply means that focus on your action and not on the byproduct.
Which is more important – Results or Actions?
Obviously, actions, because if you want good results, first we work on our actions.
Focus on the sure (actions), not on the unsure (results).
Because if the results are not as per your expectations, pain is unavoidable.
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Just hopeful for best, and keep doing best.
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Do you mind if i ask you to share what you've build so far?
May be, one day, we can work together - who knows!
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I would love to work withe other Hivers on things.
Some things I've built:
I'm currently working on a IFTTT like app for Hive too to allow doing blockchain based actions that are trigger based like IFTTT (and idea I've had for 6 years and never got around to).
Wow! so many apps. impressive.
I've bookmarked your reply.
I'll also see what we can do together. At the moment, focused on too many things
Coming soon list
As soon as I am done with set of ideas I have, we'll collaborate. Feel free to pitch any idea if you've.
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