One thing that is absolutely fascinating with STEEM is the amount of people who are building apps and tools on top of it. Bitcoin may have more people developing but it took years to get to the level that STEEM is at already.
We don't only reward devs monetarily either. With our comments and feedback, we encourage them to keep drinking coffee and code for the benefit of us all!
ESTEEM8 - Why So Little Love?
When Busy.org was in development, everybody was jumping up and down. Cheering them on and upvoting them to fund the project. But when ESTEEM8 came out...crickets.
It's disheartening, in my opinion, when someone who write about how they love their dog earned more than someone who wrote thousands of lines of codes.
So What Is ESTEEM8?
ESTEEM8 is a radically open-source front-end to the steem blockchain. In their own words:
Decentralized, autonomous and community driven organization that provide an open-source light, design, and private web application to browse Steem.
**They currently only have 75 followers and barely made more than $10 on their updates. **
Their github shows 2 people that seems to be working pretty hard on the project:
Please Encourage Our Developers!
How I wish I could write code and help...I'm sure many of us feel the same way. For those of us who can't write code, please follow their profile, upvote them, comment on their newest release to encourage them. For those who can code, check them out!
Also, please consider donating. I'll be donating a part of the earnings of this post to this project as well.
This is a #FeelTheBurn Post
If you don't know what that means, read this article here: (https://steemit.com/feeltheburn/@cryptoctopus/power-up-half-burn-half-30-day-challenge-another-approach-to-debt-reduction-feeltheburn)
#FeelTheBurn : $29.551