Great story here today, my regulars will be familiar with project lifecycle theory and some of my thoughts about it but today let's dive right in.
At just the right time of the day, 4:45 am, @friendlymoose had an issue in just the right discord (peakd) to start a series of events that led me and my development team (@thecrazygm) to develop and release this, within a few hours:
You can see an ever expanding list of tools here: https://thecrazygm.com/hivetools
What problem does this solve? Doesn't every modern app have delegation options? Yes, through a widget, not a standalone delegation webapp. As far as I know, we are now the only standalone delegation webapp currently running for HIVE.
This matters to someone!
Okay so a landing page for delegations. Currently FriendlyMoose and his TopComment project were using HiveSigner links for delegations, which as I explained to him was not ideal. HiveSigner takes "authority" and I don't like using it ever, for anything. Not that they are bad people, on the contrary they have proven to be extremely trustworthy it seems. Its a bad tech stack.
So anyway I fly into action with @thecrazygm and "we" build, that same morning, exactly what he wants.
Its nice.... but could be nicer.
What he is asking for is easy, don't get lost in the weeds on this one guys, follow me. Follow me.
I waited hard for that, 9 minutes according to the timestamp. I'm a sociologist and discord let's me do what I could never do in person.
It's not that I didn't know the answer, @enginewitty can tell a funny story; I wanted to hear him say it, the guy I just built a webapp for, using my team's development time and energy.
On the other hand I have been trying to get a Nigerian, any Nigerian really, to do some more legwork on Ecobank, a company in Nigeria. This is definitely worth $1 dollar to me, but of course I would prefer to pay with upvotes. I woke up to this message this morning:
I don't know what fair salary is for a fishing email but if "people would like" is payment for a webapp then I think its fair for legwork as well. And I am coming to realize that fair in HIVE terms gives me the sense that "you'll probably not get a lot of takers for your listing".
What are you on about?
The community backbone has been weakened. FriendlyMoose is lucky, and I built an app that does what he wants for selfish reasons.
I get to make this post. The guy who wrote the code would get way less votes.
And as they say:
There is something missing on HIVE, and in my head its related to ARCHON, what ARCHON could have been if TM had learned to use github and share the load so many years ago. A ample buffet of microservices and automation for small projects.
Slowly but surely, fixing small problems a few people have, is just how this platform overall grows into the best place to be in Crypto :)
Love to see this growth and building, Keep up the great work!
I know it has value. But is it worth money?
I think it's more the question; is someone willing to pay for the development and maintenance of this tool, isn't it @ecoinstant?
When I said I personally don't think is worth any money I ment that I don't think it's worth any money for me to pay for such a service.
I wanted an easy way for people to give delegations to an initiative I'm running for a short time now. @topcomment is ment to increase engagement by upvoting comments. This service is supported by delegations and not generating any money. It actually costs me some of my own HP and quite some time now, but I don't mind. It's for a good cause...
That's why for me personally I don't want to spend money on services.
I mean, I can send you a tip or something, but I'm afraid that might be more an insult for the work that has been done.
Maybe you could add a 'donate' button on the site, so the people using the service donate something.
I hope this blog will be read by people that are interested in supporting/investing this project.
What I am curious about is what you had in mind yourself, @ecoinstant
What do you think the service is worth in money?
And is that to cover for the development cost, running the service or both?
Most of the 'free' services I know either get money from the DHF, so maybe that is an option as well.
I am playing 5d chess with this one so bear with me.
And I'll wager you wouldnt have worked on this comment so much if you didnt feel a little uncomfortable.
Touché
I read every word of this thought-provoking post, @ecoinstant. From the experience base of my long professional life, there are a number of different angles from which one might choose to respond, in an attempt to add value to it.
First answering your question:
Yes. Is it that simple. Is there ... "more to the story?" Well ...
For a response, I'll just put down some bullet points (on any one of which I could easily write a whole post):
Goods or services are only worth what the market is willing to pay.
Perceived value. It doesn't matter what the provider of any goods or services think it is worth. It only matters what the buyer thinks it is worth (one of the single most difficult lessons I ever personally learned) ...
How is the ... "market" ... ever going to find out about your goods or services? If no one knows about it, then the value is essentially zero, until such time as that changes. Very rarely does that ever come about without a significant effort in its own right (on top of the effort to build / provide it, in the first place) ...
Clear problem statement explaining in a straight up way what the goods or services are helping one overcome. The better this is understood and agreement reached on the perceived benefit, the greater the probability of overcoming the uhhh ... "inertia" ... one finds in attempting to get a person "sold" ...
Very little is more satisfying professionally that engaging in a truly mutually beneficial (all 3 words count!) transaction.
I could write a lot more. The WIIFM principle ... Human nature and the growing entitlement mentality (maybe not an issue there in Columbia?) ... The declining appreciation of the value and importance of good, honest work. Etc. etc. etc ...
Until next time! 🫡👋
Your comment is upvoted by Topcomment
You can support the Topcomment initiative by delegating HP
| 10 HP | 25 HP | 50 HP | 100 HP | 250 HP | 500 HP | 1000 HP |
cash in your hand? No
But people LOVE when others do stuff for free on Hive and make it better as long as it doesn't cost them time or money.
I bet they do!
fixing someone elses problem so fast is great!
great job as always
Pay 3 cents for a profile pic bro
I don't know if it's worth money directly, but it is worth respect and admiration.
Well done for perfecting our lovely ecosystem!
Is this worth any money?
$27 so far..
Dont exaggerate thats 13.50,
Or six seventy five for each member of the team.
Well.. it's worth at least $6.75 then 😆
I guess it is useful as a free tool and a nice portfolio as well. 😁
Amazing work! 🎉
testing !pimp timing tiers
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