I am speaking more broadly -- based on my own first impressions when joining Steemit -- not attempting to disparage you.
When I think of the basics of creating content -- I think it's like -- the cool thing to do is make a compelling HIVE post each day.
- Photo Journal.
- Sketch.
_ Painting.
What ends up happening here is that they get traces of value from it.
This one gets .11 cents. This one gets 'curated' or 'seen by a whale' or whatever, and then more upvotes -- wow, big day /s
It is a big day, and I understand it's a cool thing -- but if they turned those single posts into projects, and incubated small a small business / built a small audience for that business -- it would be so much more than just upvotes, and hoping to get noticed by a whale.
That's what I'm trying to get after. I don't know personally much about what you all are doing, except I've just seen some market arbitrage posts, and some utility coin pushing -- which to be honest, I haven't investigated much.
It just seems like HBD Market Arbitrage is a cool hustle, but the real meat is what you had mentioned in your comment -- the project incubators.
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There are complaints from people, and people trying to fix stuff.
"N00bs don't get notice, don't get upvotes."
Etc.
The project incubator solves those problems, just in a more sustainable way, and you address the problem of giving people who rely on HIVE for income actual pathways toward building that income.
I don't know what you're doing personally. In terms of your own projects.
I'm busy with my own projects as well.
I've tried to do individual challenges with the #bootstrapper posts. I'm not sure what will come of them.
I would just like to see more people applying project based // systems thinking to their work on HIVE instead of just thinking like "hive pays me more than facebook."
I'm not sure how many people operate that way, but I think that the Communities themselves ought to be the incubators.
I've tried to push that, but it's kind of exhausting pushing at people, or I'm not that good at it. Either way, those are my thoughts on the matter.