Interesting! I certainly believe in supporting practical ideas. Ideally every value creation project we do initially should be set up in a simple testing method (be it manually driven or auto driven from a web server) and proven to work so that the community has a tangible model to judge. Steembay and Etsy are certainly GREAT models that could be run off the steemit blockchain pretty much immediately! Completely agree that the more use cases for steem the better! Certainly agree in going forward with projects that use it as a currency! The suggestions we talked about with users at steemfest were how to get the community focused and pooling it’s resources in one or just a few places, the suggestions I make above are an attempt to try to achieve this. Some may be difficult and we may have to compromise on some. But I think it important to have a strong foundation that make collaboration and value creation easier. I would certainly put Ebay and Etsy type projects on the project funnel so that anyone visiting the funnel could see that the project is ongoing and hence they could offer their services to help with this project... I am open to criticism on this, if u have identified things we have overlooked....