Sounds interesting! I am wrapped up for the next 90 days or so in a development project, but getting started on some Steem app development this year. All of the Steem code is open source. Saw the founder of Steem Ned Scott in the Chat room (Steem Witness Chat Room) looking for people with experience developing apps for Steem a few days ago. There are Steem libraries for many languages out on Github. Here's one open source Steem library: https://github.com/steemit/steem-js/