We took a hackathon project that we built in 3 weeks, and grew it from 0 users to → 3.9 million users in less than 1 year.
The average daily user spent over 65 minutes per day on Blab
Steem lacks live content
Notice I used "Steem" instead of Steemit. Steemit consists of functioning more like Reddit. Blab on the other hand is a live streaming platform which may be the component that Steem currently lacks. Steem could benefit from live content and Blab had a successful formula which can now be studied.
While Steem is great currently for written content or pre-recorded content it does not yet have an interface or mechanism to allow for rewarding live content such as what was generated by Blab. Wouldn't it be nice if there could be something like Blab which rewarded users in Steem Dollars?
Steem live chat w/ Steem Dollar and Steem Power rewards
Now imagine if Steem developers took what was learned from Blab, considering that Blab put that information out, and simply made Streem live chat where people can vote up different chatrooms as if they were threads on Reddit?
If someone launches a show or a chatroom which is successful then it could get upvoted, and maybe from this upvoting there could be a reward for the content the room generates. Of course this will all be subjective, as would the content in the text section of the room, but the fact that on Blab the content could be instantly recorded onto Youtube, it allowed for content to become popular when replayed. In essence, a Steem live chat would be like a Vlog on Steemit today, but would reward all participants in the live chat according to a set of rules.
Many former Blab users are here on Steemit
I know because I invited some of them in the very beginning phase of Steemit (prior to July 4th). There are now a lot of former Blab users who have no where to go, or who are looking for a new place to produce their content. Steem could offer a place for former Blab users to go and earn from their content.
The issues? Of course we have to consider where the content will be stored or how to handle the infrastructure for handling live streams. Considering that SAFE Network is in alpha testing it may be possible eventually to use it as a backend storage foundation along side Youtube. Would any enterprising developer like to take on the task of creating a live Stream site for Steem which functions like Blab, and be possibly rewarded with upvotes?
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