One thing I noticed when joining Steemit three days ago is that information is hard to find on what Steem and Steemit actually is. Also there are many good tools and resources available but no one knows them. This post tries to adress that issue.
So many new users ask themselves:
What is Steem and what is Steemit?
Steemit is a social network, similar to https://www.reddit.com/ where you can post, comment and vote on content. But the twist is, you get Steem when others like your content. And Steem is worth money. Currently over a dollar. So unique content creators can earn money without the users having to pay for it.
That sounds nice, but how do i get in?
Steemithelp has a wonderful tutorial for this.
Is Steemit the only way to view posts?
No, there are many other clients available. Some of the popular are listed here:
- Esteem – Mobile Steem Client for iOS and Android
- Busy – Facebook like design for Steem
- Zappl – Soon to come twitter like client for Steem
- chainBB – A forum like client for Steem
- SteepShot – An instagram like client for Steem
How do I get all the details on what happens?
There are many good tools to view the Steem blockchain:
- SteemD – See all internal data for anything on the blockchain
- SteemStats – Here you can watch users and get live updates
- SteemDollar – Liveticker on Steem price compared to other currencies
- Steemviz – Livefeed of what happens on Steem
- SteemWatch – Configure notifications for events you are interested in
- Phist – See the history of any post
- Mention – See who mentioned you
- SteemitPond – Visualize what happens on Steemit
- Steemification – Chrome extension for Notifications
What else is out there for the Steemer in me?
Here are some cool projects for Steem:
- SteemLink – A Steem based URL shortener
- Steemlink – A minimalistic blog for your Steem account
- SteemVids – See the latest videos on Steem
- SteemQ – Soon to come Video Platform for Steem
- SteemitBoard – Achievements for Steemit
- Vessel – Lite wallet for Steem
- Reprint – Blog powered by Steem
- SteemConnect – Oauth like login for Steem apps
- AskSteem – Search Engine for Steem
- FloatVote – Add a floating vote button to every post
What cool community projects exist?
Here are some I find interesting:
- SteemShop – Buy and Sell goods with Steem
- SteemGig – Start your own Community Project
- SteemDonate – Collectively fund charities with an upvote
- SteemitHealth – Daily selfcare exercises you get paid for
I want to develop an app for Steem, what can help me?
Here is a list of Apps and Libraries for Steem:
- SteemData – A MongoDB service to get Steem data from
- SteemConnect – Add auth to your app without storing keys
- SteemFeed – Steem Price SDK for python
- API Explorer – Try out requests to the Steem API
- Steem – The blockchain
- SteemJS – Javascript SDK for Steem
- SteemPython – Python SDK for Steem
- SteemTools – Extra Utilities for SteemPython
- Piston – Python SDK for Steem
- PistonCLI – Command Line Interface for Steem
- SteemJ – Java SDK for Steem
Useful Links:
- Steemithelp – a wonderful site linking to many helpful posts
- SteemD Distribution – See some statistics on how users are distributed
- SteemDollar VoteWorth – See how much one of your votes is worth
- Steemviz PendingPayouts – See how much in pending payout to expect
- Steemviz Deleted – See all deleted posts
- Steemviz Promo – See how much a promotion costs
- SteemVids Create – Easy youtube video embed to your post
- Steem TradingView – Realtime Steem price chart with candles
- SteemInvest – Copy curators and support them with your voice
- Streemian – Automate common tasks while you are not online
- Conductor – Manage your Witness Node
- SteemMonitor – Monitoring App for Witnesses
- SteemWhales – See the top users on Steem
- SteemDown – See what whales power down
- SteemCap – See the Steem Market cap live
- SteemCool – See the level of any user
- SteemSupply – See statistics of users
- SteemSplit – Split the reward of a post with other users
This post is an aggregation of many useful resources and tools, please give them credit! If there is an error or you feel misrepresented, please comment below and I will edit the post.
This post will be updated with new information when new tools come out. Please comment if you found I missed a tool.
Any feedback is appreciated. Follow @reggaemuffin for updates!
see also Steem Web Resources: Tools, Apps, Communities, etc.
Thanks for the linkback :) I'll push it to the top
thx for the vote man. appreciate it
I truly appreciate this post because it has broaden my understanding about this community. @reggaemuffin You have done a great service. I just resteemed this post so it help others like me. Kudos and God bless you.
Thank you @atare :) It sadly is a really old post, so resteeming it won't show up on your feed. But we plan to redo it at some point :) and sharing the link works.
OK I will share the link but how do I get the link? @reggaemuffin
You have done a fantastic job, @reggaemuffin! I've been in steemit for about 3 months and have not come across such a useful comprehensive resource . Well done!!! Upvoted, resteemed post and now following you.
Thanks a lot!
You are most welcome, @reggaemuffin! Cheers.
What @maryfavour said ;)
Indeed!
@reggaemuffin Am really glad persons like you who care for others exist in this platform, am new here and this post has helped me in ways you might not even know, I now have a better understanding of steemit, thanks alot!
Thank you :)
Am new here and am searching for guidance, can you please mentor me? @reggaemuffin
Very well done post. As long as I have been on here this is one of the best collections of steem resources that I have found in a post. Good job. Looking forward to more in depth analysis on steem and her applications from you in the future.
Thanks a lot! I am a dev myself and with the first app I wrote, I noticed after finishing it that it already existed... So I got up to make a list of all the things currently existing so that other devs can work on new problems and users find all these tools. If you ever find something not covered by the list, please tell me :)
..ja man...thankyouthankyouthankyou for info..follow you..
Great resources and fantastic help. Thank you.
Wow! Looks like you spent a lot of time putting this together. Thank you! Followed and Resteemed.
Aw well, I can't resteem this :(
I'm with you @magick323 - I'd like to resteem this post so I can find it again easily - but after a short time, that feature is archived on posts. Some posts are good enough to want to keep current. This is one such post.
This is a fantastic article. What a great resource! I'm going to resteem it so more people can see it.
Welcome to Steemit, by the way :)
Thanks :)
Great job on this ! Will definitely be able to use the Apps and libraries for this tool/plugin I am planning.
Cool! What are you planning to do? Happy to add it to the list when it is ready 😉
I am gathering my thoughts. When I get concrete output you will be the first to know through this thread.
Excellent post.. Thank you for sharing.
Resteemed
Thanks! Glad you like it.
Update 1: (Please upvote this update so people see it at the top)
I added https://www.asksteem.com/ by @thekile Awesome project! See his post here: https://steemit.com/steemit/@thekyle/introducing-asksteem-a-steem-search-engine
Update 2:
I added SteepShot by the @steepshot team to the post. It is an Instagram like client I totally missed and am now trying out. Liking it so far!
https://steemit.com/steemit/@steepshot/steepshot-android-alpha-0-0-2
Holy moly, how could I forget about SteemJ by @dez1337 I added it to the dev section!
Added Floatvote by @bitcoiner: https://steemit.com/steemit/@bitcoiner/steemit-floatvote-because-voting-is-important
Also https://steemdown.com/
And http://www.steemcap.com/
I'm sure you don't get thanked enough this post @reggaemuffin this is really helpful since I just started today! Thank you again!
That was exactly what i needed,
thanks for your work!
Clearly a upvote. ;-)
yessss I will definitely be looking back at zisssss
Thanks a lot :)
thanks, this was helpful
Thank you and welcome to Steemit again :) Be sure to check out https://www.steemithelp.net/ they have a list of well written tutorials!
Nice collection! Upvoted, followed and resteemed :)
Thanks a lot :)
what a convenient way to see all the important resources for efficient steeming. Thanks for sharing. Followed you...
Thank you! If I missed anything, please tell, I'll add it then. Also see this comment for what has been added since the creation of this post
Great! Good things just keep coming with steemit. Thanks again for the update/
Thank you for this great post. I did make an article a while ago for newbies. But your aggregation is valuable.
Thanks, noted your post for when I make a sectuon with detailed infos on certain topics
Good list. I think some people miss that there is a FAQ and Quick Start Guide on the Steemit site. The menu in the top right has other things too, but it's easy to miss
I personally think the official FAQ and docs are of poor quality and layout… I found the Steem website, the whitepaper and the FAQ here and was 100% confused xD It took many posts by other steemers and looking at code/steemd for me to get it. I understand that writing docs is hard so I made this post to help in that effort.
Those docs are made by the community, so anyone can help to improve them.
Awesome post! This is very helpful, easy to read especially when I plan to invite friends to join. Resteeming it!
Thank you :)
How its helpful ... how to invite frineds here after use what link ? Actually i m new here so just asking to gain knowledge miss shellyany
Thank you. This is enough for me to know more about steem and steemit
Thanks!
Huge Thanks for this helpfull post
Thank you for your post. You have done a great job - creating it!
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Thanks for this guide! Really helpful for a newbie like myself :)
thanks
Wonderful , this will go a long way... thanks
Great job @reggaemuffin! Helped out alot
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Nice! This is some good info. Thanks!
awesome article..thanx @reggaemuffin
Dear new bros and sisters of the Steemian family, YOU HAVE to READ THIS!
@reggaemuffin made a great article, a lot of knowledge in it ! CHECK IT FOR SURE! KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
This is a really magnificent list of resources! Thank you!
Thanks so much :)
Very helpfull, thank you!!
wow very usefull thx for the guide
This is helpful :)
Wow u be super quick @reggaemuffin and alert me about these excellent resource on steemit. Thanks a million buddy :)
Splendid post @reggaemuffin.
Another good one to add on my feed page to enlighten my handful of followers. :)
¡Upvoted & Resteemed!
Awesome post! I'll probably mention it in some future post.
reggaemuffin? check that... muffin! https://steemit.com/photography/@photon-pl/hungry-tasty-muffin-is-here
btw nice article!
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Wow ,im also here 3days ,but look like you know what you doing. Respect
Excellent post @reggaemuffin
Wow. Many thanks @reggaemuffin!
Great Post @reggaemuffin
Thanks ! Upvoted and resteemed .
Good post, you should add another image to the top so the thumbnail is not that blown up icon at the bottom.
I fixed that, thanks for the remark!