It's great to have you here, I'm very excited...
Regarding the replication of ideas, we're going to have a lot of problems with that, especially when we think about targeting a single market. For example, at Hive, we aim for DHF (Data-Hardware) to be our source of value, not actual usage. So we can coin the term "Product-fit-DHF," and AI (Analog Artificial Intelligence) gives us the advantage of taking existing things and improving them. But we wonder, are we replicating an idea that captures value from DAO (Data-Oriented Apps) but not externally? Is it capable of capturing external value and attracting more users than the existing one?
I support free competition, but it should be focused on capturing more external participation.
Regarding your idea of creating another interface, what you should evaluate is whether it solves a problem for the creators. It's not about taking market share away from other dApps that don't have an adoption mechanism. Right now, if a social app like Liketu launches an external adoption campaign, it can attract many users, and Peakd and Escency would remain the same.
Digital marketing investment is practically zero on Hive, so any good idea with a real adoption mechanism can surpass existing ones in just a few months or even days.
Of course, you have to set aside emotions and look for modern methodologies to evaluate ideas.
Security is the most important factor and a major concern, so we must spend a lot of time preventing obvious attacks, and even more so as your app grows.
Whenever you want to discuss ideas, I'm always just a DM away.