Great seeing you in NYC @nanzo-scoop, this is Kirk of @sndbox via my personal blog. I agree with everything, especially the statement below:
For SMTs to succeed it will need a combination of successful partnerships (with existing and new content creators/ platforms) and developer tools to integrate them.
At this stage... "we" (Steemit Inc. + all of us) have 6 months to prepare for SMTs entering the ecosystem. There's a lot to prepare for and I hope that the Inc. team begins to open up and ask the existing community here for support. No sense in shouldering the load internally when there are a ton of existing applications and bootstrapped communities that could help (tremendously) in creating -
• SMT On-boarding Resources - explainer websites / tutorials / case-study examples / videos / well designed infographics.
• Marketing - delegating liaisons for online forums and physical meetup locations, reserving proper social media handles, activating these handles (early) to cultivate an audience around them.
I'm sure Steemit Inc. has a proper roadmap for each of these items. But why not leverage existing Steemians to accelerate these efforts?