I didn’t know @neilstrauss was on steemit. Thank you for the tip.
Instead of creating new technologies like SMT's to bring even more people to the platform, how about implementing a decent search, to find those who are already there.
Since all the data is publicly available on blockchain, any developer can build a website on it.
Some examples like busy.org exist, but they don’t add too much on top of steemit.com.
A decent relevant posts and authors functionality is my top feature request as I explained in a post called You've Got the Power, Steemit User!
I contacted a developer about that and waiting for his reply. Let’s see who will come up with this feature first.