Hi, sorry it took me a while to see this! Remember, you can use the Sting chat (little yellow icon on PeakD) to enter the chat-style dapp. Anyway, you want to do better here...

Off the top, and you may already know this, but it's not really "succeed in PeakD", it's more "succeed on Hive." PeakD is one of the many front ends on Hive. It's a general, all-purpose front end, like Ecency or Hive.blog. Then there's "specialty" one's like D.buzz, LeoFinance.io, Actifit.io, dlux.io (just redesigned yesterday) or Liketu or many others. The point is, your Hive account is the key to them all. Doing anything on one is doing something on Hive. Find the one's you like or are interested in and do stuff there. That'll help.

You're doing the right things...posting, asking questions, joining communities. I see you joined a couple of months ago, so engaging is really the #1 thing to do. By engaging, I mean posting, commenting, joining communities, chatting (invite to say "Hi" at https://chat.peakd.com/t/hive-159259/0), etc. Money and tech aside, the main thing about Hive is the people...that's what fuels it. Just interact. Took me over 3 years to figure this out.

With posting, I'd say don't try to write what you think will get votes. Instead, just write about what you are interested in or things you know about.

I'd emphasize comments for someone new. This is probably the top way to grow. Read something that interests you, then offer a thoughtful comment that adds something to the conversation (not just "nice post"). That will slowly gain you followers, upvotes (which boost your reputation score), and that's how it works. Just realize, it takes time. It's slow and steady.

One of the best list of tips I've seen on Hive was by Hive account@finguru at @finguru/rf0zn6

Any questions, just ask.

!LUV