Dear Steemians,
Do any of you have an Instagram account? How many countless hours have you spent glued to your smartphone perusing this app? I have spent many hours, hundreds, on this app trying to gain a following and many more hours posting, commenting, and liking other people’s posts. While I somehow managed to get up to around 23k in followers, it took me years of constant posting and commenting to get that far.
The rewards for all my efforts?
$0. Zero for the hero.
Now that is about to change.
Enter, APPICS, the next-generation reward-based Social Networking application that runs on top of the Steem Blockchain and enables people from around the globe to connect allowing all participants to benefit from the platform. Just imagine Steemit's author and curator rewards system but a slick mobile app like Instagram. Booyeah!
Surf's up for APPICS
APPICS introduces a new ecosystem that merges lifestyle with generated Income within a single mobile application. The concept of turning "likes" (votes) into currency has shown its feasibility and capacity, as seen here on Steemit.com with the upvoting system. APPICS has the vetting and complete support of and in cooperation with Steemit Inc.; it is going to be one of the first meta-tokens to launch on the Steem Blockchain with the backing of @ned.
Last year (2017) alone, there were 2.789 Billion active social media users and the number is still growing exponentially. Social media has changed the world and sparked the beginning of a new digital economy. There are some attributes that the most popular social media platforms have in common that are attracting the majority of internet users - Visual Content.
Visual content can tell a story faster than words
Visual content displayed in an easy-to-use app is the most successful technology for mobile and Instagram has proven this. Instagram was one of the first social networks to recognize that photography is the key and created their application based on this and would later include video.
The fact is 90% of the data absorbed by the human brain is visual. We are in fact visual creatures and the science behind it prove this! Instagram managed to take advantage of this fact, built an app that appeals to our minds, and combines our favorite activities into a social media revolution.
Now, I might seem like I am pumping Instagram. I am a photographer after all. However, it sucks in one regard. It is sucking up my time and energy while not rewarding me anything in return. The only people that benefit from my photos and content are FB and Instagram and they are making billions. I do not want to contribute to the companies and shareholders pockets any longer. Since I have joined Steemit I have spent most of my time here and away from FB/Instagram.
There is a lot to be excited about this upcoming platform. As a photographer and content producer, I want to be rewarded for my efforts. I do not want my time and effort going to the pockets of a centralized corporation like Facebook. I will be saving some of my earnings here and hopefully get in with their next ICO round.
Here's my referral link if you want to get in on the next round of ICO: APPICS ICO
Watch the Appics Official Video
Here's a video of what APPICS is all about.
Earn some APPICS before release
APPICS is also offering a bounty program where they will reward you for promoting the platform like retweeting or writing about APPICS like the one I am doing here. Here is the link to the bounty program: APPICS Bounty or check out their Steemit account @appics.
Here's hoping APPICS will have a smooth launch.
I cannot wait to use it!
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." - Mark Twain
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Awesome great news thanks for sharing this info with a fellow steem enthusiast less than two months in. This is something a lot of us had been looking for in my opinion, and now here it is! Thanks again @adonisabril, great news on the development front!
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Wow!!! Exciting times ahead. Appic we are ready to go.
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And I can't wait to be apart of this one too. Just hope everything falls in place. Thanks
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I would love for Steemit to be as big as instagram. The rewards are much higher and I feel like with the upvoting and flagging feature people are more inspired to produce quality content and not be as negative. I'm definitely not instagram 'famous' but I feel like more people on steem deserve more positive attention than the influencers we see on instagram. You're onto something @adonisabril
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Steemit is more of a blog-driven platform, like Reddit. APPICS will be more like Instagram but riding on the Steem Blockchain :)
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best of both worlds I suppose
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Sounds amazing, this could be the breakthrough for blockchain based social media in the mainstream!
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Steemit should have already been there...Poor marketing though :)
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Muy increíble de verdad.
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Amazing post......... Help vote me brother...
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Fantastic post!!!
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Thanks for introducing us to APPICS. One question: Why does it need an ICO if it is using the Steem blockchain?
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It's a Smart Media Token - https://smt.steem.io/
Think of something like Bescouted.
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Ah, okay! I still need to read up on the specifics of SMT's. Thanks for answering!
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You got a 4.28% upvote from @postpromoter courtesy of @adonisabril!
Want to promote your posts too? Check out the Steem Bot Tracker website for more info. If you would like to support the development of @postpromoter and the bot tracker please vote for @yabapmatt for witness!
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This post has received gratitude of 6.11 % from @appreciator thanks to: @adonisabril.
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This post has received a 5.13 % upvote from @boomerang thanks to: @adonisabril
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@originalworks
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How is this platform going to be any different then steemit?????
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Steemit = Reddit.
APPICS = Instagram.
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honestly this is the game , you vote for people and get draines battery , eye pains and sometimea you sleep while holding the phone without the expectation of getting something monetary.. Well I havent got anything on Steemit but the promise is alive... Steemit global
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New project
very interesting
I will keep one eye on this one.
Thank you for the post.
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This is great for someone like me who is not great at writing content. I like the idea APPICS = Instagram! Yay!
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I can do both but prefer photography daily :)
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I'm hoping I will become a better writer by writing her everyday!
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Any idea on potential launch dates? I like the idea of the app, as well as the IG style of media sharing.
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ICO on March.
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Didn't know about this. Thanks! With all the time I've spent on insta....uggggh I can't wait for this to launch.
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Congratulations @adonisabril, this post is the second most rewarded post (based on pending payouts) in the last 12 hours written by a Superuser account holder (accounts that hold between 1 and 10 Mega Vests). The total number of posts by Superuser account holders during this period was 1315 and the total pending payments to posts in this category was $10991.55. To see the full list of highest paid posts across all accounts categories, click here.
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Too bad..., I've tried but you can link your account only to facebook, twitter and steem, you can't link it to Instagram...
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Thanks for telling us about this! You didn't want to sell anything through your instagram page, like a course or something? I had several really big instagram pages as well.
You really do spend hours doing it. Kinda made me want to just do a big long digital detox though...I don't love the fact that I've spent so much time on my phone. However, great to be rewarded for it if you don't want to create a course or something!
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I haven't posted on Insta lately...and I don't want to spend the time and effort to monitize it :)
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Excelente tema y muy increíbles tus fotos, te felicito por tan excelente post.
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gracias
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