As someone relatively new to Steemit, I found this post quite useful, so thank you! I also didn't know about steem.supply until your post and it's definitely a useful resource, so thanks for introducing that to me as well!

I did know about payouts disappearing after a week and I wrote a post about it (which didn't earn anything - heh), because I find that to be one of the best things about this platform. If you want to earn anything from Steemit, you have to continue to be creative and continue interacting and building relationships. It's the only social media platform I've seen that truly encourages community building.

I know one of my goals with Steemit is to grow my account so I can help other interesting content creators grow their accounts, but I can tell that's a long way off. In the meantime, I'll keep creating content and interacting with interesting content creators - I'm sure I'll get somewhere eventually.

Good luck on your Steemit journey as well!