If Dagamers Went Full Hive And Tried to onboard New Gamers And Streamers into Hive

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Raw example of how the first step of the profile creation screen could look like

These past 2 days I've been thinking about a hypothetical: what if Dagamers started to aim towards onboarding new gamers and streamers into Hive? Since I've been reading more and more into witnesses and proposals, I started wondering what changes we'd have to make.

Obviously, in this hypothetical, we'd be working only on Hive, but this idea would also apply to either Steem or Blurt.

Two things immediately came to mind: first, we'd have to make the experience as smooth as possible, and second, Dagamers should become a clear use case.

To achieve this, we'd have to start putting the streams out on the platform itself and allow interactions with the streams through the platform. Comments and so on should also be visible. It might be smart to render only the comments created through the platform itself for users wanting the simple experience. Posts referring to other aspects on Hive or auto posts might confuse new users.

For these new users, we'd create a Hive account for them but take a slightly higher beneficiary cut. Additionally, these users' Hive accounts will auto-follow our curation trail. We'd also pay them out in BTC or another more mainstream currency by converting their liquid rewards into their currency of choice.

Once they are a bit worked in and familiar with the platform, we'll motivate them towards the more advanced experience, where they take their own Hive account into their own hands.

The Three Step Plan:

I see us doing this in three steps:

  • Educate them step-by-step on how Hive works using Dagamers' front-end as a use case. This should come in a tutorial sort of way that unlocks rewards (which will always be higher upvotes on their next stream).
  • When switching to the advanced experience, let them do things manually but still on Dagamers' platform itself, like converting currency, etc.
  • When they feel confident with managing their own accounts, introduce them to the many other apps and front-ends Hive has to offer.

This is probably how I'd see it happening just now off the top of my head. Obviously, there are a million and one things I'm not considering, which can only be answered by actually seeing the struggles and questions gamers and streamers from outside the Hive ecosystem have.

Great But How Do You Reach Out to These New Streamers

Adsense done by a professional marketing bureau have an immense impact. At least that's what the marketing bureau told me. But the few users we have at the moment are almost all gotten from me reaching out to them and asking them to try the app. I've only reached out to a few people (and none from outside the Hive ecosystem) mostly because I'm doing this mostly as a fun little project right now. But just reaching out to people to test your app is super beneficial.

I remember when all of us where streaming Splinterlands @atomcollector would visit our streams ask us to check out @risingstargame. The result: everyone tried out Rising Star.

So we'll keep it simple.

Just a Theory

Anyway, just a bit of theorizing off the top of my head. I don't have the ambition to implement anything like that since it would massively increase the workload, making it into a full-time job. But it's fun to think about it nonetheless.



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Onboarding 2 all 3 Plattforms could be difficult. On Blurt a new Account costs 100 Blurt each and on steem and hive a lot of mana or rc.

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Yeah absolutely, but for this article that's not really important

This article https://peakd.com/hive/@sircork/five-hive-contest-winner-time-you-guys-wont-bee-lieve-the-entries-this-got-so-much-fun by @sircork really put my thinking into overdrive on how dagamers would handle onboarding if that was one of it's tasks.

The how is the topic of discussion here and focuses really on easing the experience. Talks about onboarding here often assumes the new user is fully onboard from the very beginning. I think in theory many of them are actually quite "sus", especially if their first experience was bad

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Glad I got you thinking on this stuff. That was my broad goal for all who saw my posts anyway.

Adsense done by a professional marketing bureau have an immense impact. At least that's what the marketing bureau told me. But the few users we have at the moment are almost all gotten from me reaching out to them and asking them to try the app.

I have been having long hypothetical conversations with @littlescribe too about paid advertising like google ads or facebook ads or others, (she likes the idea) and my own experience, which is that those work if well targeted but can be expensive and hit or miss on broad targets, and my general inclination from historical experience is that everybody is mostly here because of peer to peer word of mouth anyway.

Precisely like you said in the statement I quoted from you above. Hence my posts about how we could return to the enthusiasm that propelled everyone to talk about "steem" then, and would be "hive" now to their friends, family and social networks, without anybody really breaking a sweat or spending a dime of any of their own, pool, or community money.

Keep thinking and doing. I like the stuff you're heading for here!

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2 bad that @limesoda is not active anymore. Limesoda was a Web agency that wrote and supported steem back in the beginnings.
But maybee they still would supprot sutch a project

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"wrote steem"? that was Dan Larimer in 2016. limesoda here on hive seems to have joined in 2018, and went inactive in 2019 per their feed last post... I don't recall the name LimeSoda from the early days? Did they have a different name on steem earlier than that?

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no they always called limesoda. They where on steem when i start 2017. They are a german Web agency maybee this is the reason

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Perhaps, I checked their old blog but it seemed to be a low volume poster and mostly reblogs.

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I think Nerd meant that @limesoda used the Steem blockchain and where (at least back then) aiming their arrows at the crypto market. Not that they where part in the creation or marketing team of Steem itself

(correct me if I'm wrong of course @nerdtopiade )

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Always! And in the worse case we find out what doesn't work and we learn

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