I haven't done one of these #asksteemit posts in some time, the r/askreddit used to be one of my favorite subreddits and I really enjoy discussions, especially now on an immutable blockchain and being able to reward others with something else than just imaginary internet points.
I was writing a post earlier and replied with this comment to @lunaticpandora:
and it truly is something I believe in, I can't wait for the day where Steem decouples from the other cryptos and does its own thing. I understand that there is still a long way to go for that to happen, a lot of exchanges and fiat gateways needed but with the recent pace that Steem and dApps developing on it have been lately, even in a bear market, have been astounding. I can't even begin to imagine the amount of new developers that are going to jump onto Steem and start creating their own ideas and services on top of it once the price starts to give the currency some more attention again.
I am also really looking forward to instant account creation and a fix to the abuse to wanting to create accounts just for the free 0.1 Steem you receive, it has been an obstacle and bottleneck for some time now. What seems even more crazy yet not many seem to be talking about it is the low amount of liquidity, i.e. Steem sell orders existing on exchanges. Even though it doesn't mean a lot as traders can just place the orders once price starts to move up it still shows that once some people decide to buy in it doesn't take a lot for Steem to start swinging harshly upwards which it has done quite a few times in the past.
What I wanted to talk about in this post, though, is what you, the readers and followers of my post believe has the biggest chances of becoming the next big thing in the world originating from Steem. As some of you may have noticed and probably gotten tired of seeing at this point is that I've been streaming on @dlive quite a lot in the last few months. As someone who used to stream on Twitch but quit and longed for a streaming platform to be created on Steem it has been so awesome to see it being developed and grow to what it is today and I want to thank @wa7 the founder of @dlive for his vision, investment and ongoing development of it. To me right now it is one of the dApps with the biggest potential for mass adoption and if you are someone familiar with streaming platforms in general you might understand the advantages and differences of doing it on Steem. I'm wishing it the best of success in the near future and hope I will be able to watch my favorite streamers and be able to reward them with votes and feeless transactions very soon on Steem!
Everyone who has earned or invested into Steem should be able to do whatever they want with their Steem Power - is the saying. Of course this does not mean that you can tell others not to flag you with their stake either as it is costing them to do so and often they have a good reason for it. With that in mind, though, and considering the possibility of unlimited new dApps starting out on Steem - what are some possibilities you can imagine for Steemians to do with their voting power in the near future if the demand for Steem Power is constant and increasing over time?
Imagine services that let you trade your voting power directly for liquid Steem/SBD or being able to purchase items with it directly. Sounds really crazy right? Well it may not have to be. Steem has a really high annual interest rate compared to banks, etc, and the interest to aquire Steem and hold it as an investment can become quite big in the near future. Sacrificing curation rewards, i.e. interest to instead purchase items through services on Steem could be something that would be possible. There are stores that have a higher price included in the items they sell depending on the percentage of thefts that happen annually, this could be compared to a percentage of flags where the service could lose out on.
I can't shake the image of driving up to McDonalds and the cashier giving you a QR code and saying "please upvote 10% here" and you getting your order 5 minutes later.
Steemit, which dApp do you believe can bring Steem to the masses?
I'm hoping we can start bringing in a significant number of new users with @steemmonsters. I wouldn't really call this "the masses", but I expect it to bring a relatively large number of people with the expectation of working hard and spending money and not getting everything for free.
That will hopefully help inject money into STEEM either through the game or otherwise. They come for the game, and then slowly expand out into the rest of the ecosystem.
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I came to say Steemmonsters.
Account creation - [x]
Gateway from fiat - [x]
Broad popular appeal - [x]
A couple of months from now we're going to have successful STEEM hodlers who've never bought in, don't know anything about crypto and have never posted on steemit.
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Yes, here to say @steemmonsters as well! Excited for the Kickstarter campaign and what we'll see in user numbers / activity!
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@steemmonsters has been doing great and will also be an important pillar to show others that creating games on Steem can be quite successful. I'm hoping to see a lot more games, you guys included, being created on Steem in the near future!
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Amen to that!
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Yep came here to say steemmonsters as well.
Even though steempeak.com is trying to be the intuitive full featured front end for the blogging it's still gonna be something like steemmonsters that will bring a lot of excitement.
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Gamers have always been pioneers in tech adoption so I have big hopes on dlive being a gateway for many twitch streamers and YouTubers to come on board, especially as censoring becomes harder and harder on those platforms due to political alignments of the owners, they will find a safe haven here.
As for non gaming related, I'm hoping Steempress to be able to attract tons of bloggers and content creators to steem when they finish their integration project and Utopian to bring as many devs that are looking to escape the chains of working in a cubicle!
Honorable mention would go to steem monsters, that falls on the gaming side of things though, can't wait for the draft battles to become a reality!
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I am going to flake out here and say it will not be one application. Instead, it will be consistent growth across a number of different apps.
If I had to state that one would do it, I will go with "it hasnt been created yet". The reason I say this is because if there is one thing that hooks a massive amount of people, it is a kick-ass game. That is what spreads.
Since we are only starting to see gaming being developed on here, it will take a bit of time. But @steemgg is a start (2 more games already added to it).
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An app that doesn't try to mimic previously successful ones (like Reddit let's say) but creates a whole new demographic. Reason is the time of those successful apps and sites is ending. They were successful, they're done. The new generation doesn't care. It should be named something more unique than d-whatever (unless it's @dbag, just saying) and introduce a demographic we haven't seen here yet.
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Yeah, I had the same thought, was hoping this post would awaken some new ideas (even though the readers would decide not to disclose them). There's a lot of new dimensions Steem brings into the game that haven't existed before so there are possibilities of something completely new to be created which goes viral quick.
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I've got a few proposals that were made to me but none are sure-fire successes and in the end it's a game of $$$ for development. Personally, I'd like to see something aimed at real education (not the myriad classes about how to succeed on or use Steemit).
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Why do you hate STEEMITSCHOOL!?
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LOL
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You know something like real education you're right, so many junk initiatives aim at educating but the real intention they have is to get whale support and money, maybe a real time education backed by STEEM
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Coming soon! Watch my blog ;)
I have been working on this for nine months @promo-mentors.
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Here are bunch of Dapp ideas
https://steemit.com/teamaustralia/@itstime/5-steem-dapps-that-should-happen-asap
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If dapps doesn't follow previous sucessful setting then it will take long to carry the masses along because it will take time for masses to aclamatize to a whole new setting strange to them
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"Tasteem" isn't "dfoodreviews". The naming convention isn't necessary imo. Naming conventions are for the military anyways.
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I actually thought about this, but we have Ebay! ;)
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I believe in @dlive in the long run, I m not sure if I am bullish in Steemit but the Steem blockchain per se is I think one of currency will be very close in top ones. Steemit is just one user interface and many will be created in the near future
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Dtube has to be it! Oh, and Dlive! No censorship on the Steem Blockchain should be reason enough for the masses to jump in. We just have to let the word out.
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It's hard to say but if I were to chose it would be @oracle-d and indeed @dlive.
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IMHO, it hasn’t been built yet. . In the next few years I feel someone is going to recognize the Steem blockchain for its capabilities and invest a substantial amount of USD/Steem into harnessing it, as opposed to creating and using delegation proceeds etc. Just my humble thoughts. Thanks.
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The brilliant prospects of what world will look it if it's STEEM inclined, even if it's an imaginative gesture I believe that the widespread of STEEM to the masses can decentralized buying, purchasing and even Ad marketing as well.
Well like we all know a lot of YouTubers flocked in to dtube and DLIVE an example are the @hodgetwins, if any dapps will bring STEEM to the masses it will be the streaming dapps Dtube and DLIVE because of the prospects it offers unlimitedely
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As for which dApp will bring the masses, I can't say. I wouldn't mind if it was Steepshot, as an alternative to the offal that comes outta Instagram. If only girls knew that their cute selfies could net a profit occasionally, I think people would be more interesting sharers.
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I am a big fan of dLive and it is currently my favorite one dApp.
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The dapps are really exciting,we should also be mindful of our retention rate!
I am sure many people join Steemit and leave after a frustrating one month(people always quit though!).
There is this platform run by @surpassinggoogle called @ulogs. I have realized this project retains a big number of people.
This is how it works,you write a post of how your day wents,simple.....you are assured of a small vote from ulog or @surpassinggoogle.
I think we need such projects that encourage interaction.There is also somwtjing new called @actifit... you paid tokens to exercise....wish they hurry it up and make those tokens convertable to Steem!
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Potentially @steempress-io as there are already established users and they do not need to do anything different to take part other than signup. I think that with an SMT, this could make it very easy for some already established sites to monetize their content.
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I had the same thought. Once @steempress-io will be able to embed the Steem blockchain comments onto a Wordpress blog, the game will change.
Right now bloggers continue onto Wordpress, because that's where their audience is, that's where their brand is.
But if instead of Facebook comments you get Steem comments and you have a monetary value assigned to the votes, people will start to join Steem, both for the reward and to keep interacting on their favorite blogs.
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I belive in @dlive and in @dtube. Also @acidyo there are some loopholes out there on the steemit for the newbies due to which they tend to follow other third party untrusted apps to get Steem power
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Dlive or Dtube...natural transition for YouTube crowd. ..
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I bet @dtube and @dlive will do the magic. Other ones people barely pay attention to is steepshot.
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people don't pay attention to steepshot because it doesn't have a 2m delegation like @dtube and @dlive.....
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I hope that steem price will go up,, just hold and wait.
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Although I'm a DLive addict, a solid and fully operational DTube would be a great ambassador for the Steemit platform, since many folks out there are looking for a valid YouTube alternative
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Eos?
:))
But I am thinking dlive or any video streaming app. That is what anybody does at the moment.
But not sure if it continues if the possible Upvotes from dlive would vanish..
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Dlive and Dtube. They have what it takes to bring people to steem.
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I choose oracle-d, esteem, and projectgiving
I believe on the positives project behind that.
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An ebay that pays you with tokens when you buy things.
A site that rewards you by doing things that help Steem to get to the masses. Like making ads, thinking marketing strategies, a place where everyone can propose projects, vote for them and get help from the community to get them done.
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I can say everything before could have picked up steem but with the low prices, its hard to predict. I do have my eyes on @dlive bringing positivity to this paltoform and its users.
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Congratulations @acidyo!
Your post was mentioned in the Steemit Hit Parade in the following category:
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Steeemit has its issues and some people are abusing it, as I heard.. I am just scared that some wrong people will ocme to steemit and ruin it that much that people will leave and no one would want to invest... I just hope that "people" factor is not going to happen here..
I would bet also on DLive. Why? Because, gaming industry is one of the biggest in the world and so far, dlive is on a great path to become the best app to bring people here. Also, that gifting feature is making anyone dolphin/orca/whale. So IF you REALLY want to support anyone and your vote is small, you can do it by gifting as much as you can.
My goal here ie to be "big" as you and support people woth my upvote. As for now, I am using that gifting feature to show support as much as my real life and steemwallet lets me do it. So this is one thing that is baiting people that really wanta to support others..
Another platform that is already here is @vimm. It is also like dlive and you can also send gifts here. It's a newly platform so there are not many streamers there, but in believe in time there will be a lot of people there also...
The win-win-win situation would be that vimm got a big delegation like dlive and starts to upvote their streamers. That will be seen by others and then people will join vimm.
That way we're going tp have powerfull vimm and dlive that will have to "fight" for their streamers. And, I believe that would be winning situation for Steemit platform, dlive, vimm and streamers...
Since on Steemit, I am amazed by this community but I am in a big fear that "few big" people will come and ruin it, because I already see things that are being done. And, I am talking about those things that are slowing down or disabling development of Steemit/Steem..
Still, I am new here so probably, I said some stupid things but that's how I feel and I really don't want this platform to get ruined
I hope we will find a way to develop together and not to have "politican mentality" where you need to destroy somebody to raise yourself.
Have a great day brah. See ya on top ;)
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I believe in @dtube
Also I think @dtube is the one which is gonna pave the way for mass adoption of steemit. The censorship of YouTube is frustrating a lot of users. Their way into @dtube could be the big thing that steemit wants
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I'm partial to anything smoothly functioning on mobile.
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Looking at what's out there right now, I see Fundition as having a lot of room to grow. There are so many people who love donating to charities, but just don't have money to give. The ability to simply upvote the charities you care about and essentially have someone else's money go to them will be a draw to a lot of people. Word just needs to get out and everything about joining and using the platform made easier to understand by non-crypto folks.
Steempress also offers a lot of potential for growth, because you just install a plugin and your normal blog starts earning you money on this other platform. Again, training is the essential issue. I find the Steempeak interface to be easier for newbies than steemit, so my plans for a training program I'm putting together for teens on nearby reservations will involve that combination.
And finally, I do see a lot of potential for DLive. I'm trying to get myself using it. Just had a lot of technical issues when I was only on mobile and now that I'm back on laptop simply need the time to give it a try again. I used to do a lot of livestreaming (even way back when Periscope was just starting), and I know that's a way of communicating/receiving info a lot of people really eat up. Being able to directly monetize that will have a lot of appeal.
As for yet to be created uses, well I think you pointed toward the big one in your OP, the ability to pay for things with STEEM even when it has nothing to do with content creation. To me that's the game changer.
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I have to give props to @dlive too. The ease in which it works, and the high quality professional looking blogs that come of it --are just awesome! That i can do it all from my phone! To know the content won't easily disappear or be censored invaluable. The other thing that's been rad about #dlive is that are the upvotes from them! They've been super encouraging to see & recieve.
It's a pretty good friggin' time to be alive!
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Your burger example is interesting since it turns the table where you upvote upfront of receiving something. If you fast forward that, it could mean that upvotes will give you access to exclusive content like books chapters, music and tv-show episodes. The fun thing is when you make sure that the time you spend on "consuming" the content you unlocked is balanced with a recharging speed, so binge consumption is possible. Thank you for thinking outside the box... you triggered something here :D
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I think some things that the Steemit platform can do without necessarily building dApps is make it easier to find friends and bloggers throughout their platform. Something as simple as an easier search bar and a "favorite" list of some kind. I also think direct messaging in some capacity would be a fantastic addition.
I think people are drawn to reddit, facebook and instagram because the are intuitive, if you want to search something, it is easy. If you saw something you wanted to send to a friend, it is easy to do that too. I see the popularity of these other platforms and I believe Steemit could be just as big but they need to iron out some kinks before we see more adoption.
And I also loved your point about the account creation. IT HAS TO BE EASIER! I have tried to get many of my friends involved on Steemit but they all got frustrated with the account creation and gave up.
I think the potential of this platform is endless and I think many of wonderful dApps are in the works but I think fixing some problems with Steemit to make it more user-friendly will help the adoption in the coming years!
Thoughts anyone?
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DMania.
If we get memers on there its GOLDEN.
just like 9gag
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This is a really great question. Your McDonald’s idea would be insane to directly use voting power to purchase things... that’ll be an insane future.
Dlive is great but I think the general public is getting really annoyed with how Youtube has been lately so Dtube has a huge chance to take over some of that market share. Everyone loves videos too.
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Upvote to pay your order is the best thing I've heard. Its truly change steem price dramatically. Going back to the topic, in my opinion its the busy.org, DLive & d.tube will bring steemit to mainstream.
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I agree with DLive. It has a quite important niche there considering Twitch is so popular these days. SteemMonsters is another nice specialty product. I totally wish I can buy my stuff on Amazon by upvoting a product. That'd be awesome. Just a way to "Sync" my account to Amazon to easily send SBD to my credit account would be also acceptable.
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Love the brainstorming :) Here are some bullets for dAps
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I think a microstock dApp would be very successful on Steemit. We have a huge influx of cool photos and illustrations being posted daily, these could be connected to the microstocks dapp if one chose to, perhaps there could be a check box that you could click if you agree to sell your photo “royalty- free”.
I think this would add great success to Steem because we could see a huge influx of money for work provided by the entire blogging community. Another great part about selling royalty free, non exclusive license, is that the photo can be sold an infinitive amount of times.
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@acidyo
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Dapps such as dtube and dlive target video producers and gamers. If you are willing to expose yourself publicly over a decentralized network, then the dapps will reward you for your content.
I don't see those dapps attracting writers, users, or viewers to the Steem platform. I understand viewers are currently not being paid to watch YTube videos, but Steem is marketing itself to be a place where you get paid for your voice/quality content. So as a user/viewer, how would I get paid to be a stable user of the Steem blockchain when it is the video producer that is reaping the rewards? DTube viewers do receive a small reward for watching, but I believe the curation reward is also dependent on stake. Not much for small fishes. I would imagine the mass mentality (having earned pennies for being on Steem) would simply switch back to YTube where there are no issues with connectivity and they have a broader selection of topics to watch.
Although @steemmonsters is not a dapp, I feel the project has a lot to offer to the Steem blockchain. Steemmonsters is a card collectible game, but a community formed where users of different interests are welcomed and supported. There are writers, artists, musicians, developers, video producers, and of course, gamers. We all have different interests but our interests intersected with steemmonsters. A community of different userbase should be supported, imo.
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@steepshot would be the one imho, but only if Steemit.inc gave them a 2m delegation. They won't, because they don't want to make competition for APPICS. So, it will either be @dlive or another dapp that hasn't yet been released.
I have thought about this many times before, hopefully someone makes a dapp that will make it possible and businesses start accepting it.
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in dlive we believe!
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hahahaha yes! how cool would that be, to upvote McDonalds for your food. LOL. As far as what apps, could help bring Steem to the masses, it is hard to say. DLive and DTube both have a shot, but they really need to work on their searching algorithm. It is terrible. haha growing pains I guess? And they need to allow for more keywords, or at least DTube does. For example, how cool would it be to do a search in google, etc. for gaming videos and have DTube or DLive videos show up on the first page. So if they could fine a way to make the videos more searchable, that would really help! Love Steem!
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I didn't know creating accounts just for the 0.1 Steem was a thing. What is one to do with it? That's absurd.
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That app may not exist, yet. I agree with @taskmaster4450 that it will probably not be just one app but many.
A payment service enabling payment by upvote sounds like an extremely cool idea. With enough SP a hamburger meal worth of Steem Power will replenish faster than you can eat that meal. :D
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bad
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And ugly :)
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