Hey @gtg,
I really appreciate your suggestion to focus on projects that attract users from outside Hive, leveraging the blockchain as a backend. I completely agree that expanding to a wider audience and ensuring sustainability are crucial for Hive's future. In fact, my own ideas and the project I'm working on, aim to do just that: offer Ai assistance for bloggers that can bring value and users to the platform, even if they're not familiar with Hive's internal workings, because one future feature is opening AegisPad to web2
To bring these initiatives, and many others that people like me are developing, to fruition, the support from Hive accounts with significant power is fundamental.
I'm referring specifically to voting power and the budgets that can be mobilized.
From my perspective in Venezuela, I'm ready to dedicate the necessary time and effort to build and expand applications that benefit the entire community. What we truly need is that initial boost and trust to turn our ideas into reality.
Here's where an important reflection comes in:
If those with significant power on the platform don't actively support those of us with ideas or the potential to develop them, how do we expect Hive's current situation to change and evolve?
Allow me to share a concrete example: Venezuelan team of HiveTalkProject has been working hard for weeks on an initiative to educate and motivate new developers to get directly involved with Hive(me included as educator), building new apps and DApps.
But, how can I keep these new talents motivated and engaged if I, as a driving force, can't secure the necessary support from the larger accounts? The growth cycle breaks.
An openness to supporting new initiatives and the strategic allocation of resources are essential to building the future we all envision for Hive.
Some of the work I have so far for HIVE(pro bono):
- LP index first version
- LP Index New version, improved UI, functionality, and so on.
Liquidity positions in HIVE blockchain. This index stores daily trading data from liquidity pools so the users can have a convenience index at disposal. I did this in order to create, in the future: a Liquidity Pools Simulator.
- HSBI onboarding frontend : This app wass designed to automate the onboarding process of new users into the HSBI initiative, formerly known as:
Also the backend was done for this using hivesql to easily target new users.
Keychain-helper: a light library to help users about how to interact with Hive Keychain, also published in npm already.
AegisPad first version FE: as the original idea of having AI assistance for content in HIVE. Also did the backend. The initial idea was "having the backend to host the AI models" so the costs could be reduced but this needed too much power in a VPS when talking about GPU and processing power so idea dropped.
HiveLens: an interactive media indexer for the HIVE blockchain. This site allows users to select a date range and search within old posts, all the images, test those images and index them into a Database. This way we reuse and have data ready to be used again instead of just publishing new files each minute. Also as a future idea implementation: it may use AI to categorize and revise images.
AegisPad New Version: improved now using Gemini AI to revise, translate and analyze tags in HIVE. This app can be leveraged to web2 ad well or even mix web2 and web3 users.
Spoiler: Today I am releasing into the AegisPad BETA the voice control funcionality so the users can dictate instead of just typing a post. This may help users with disabilities. Only supported in Chrome Browser for now.
Thanks again for your time and perspective.