Image by A New Feature on Listnerds
I have been on Listnerds for just over 4 months, and as a habitually disorganised person, I completely forgot to make a spreadsheet to record the dates that I started unstakes, and when they are due to pay out.
This has left me guessing, and even once or twice sending a ticket to the very overworked team of 
But as of today, we can now all view our unstake records in the Listnerds wallet section of the website 🙂
A development I've been eagerly awaiting to be able to build a more comprehensive spreadsheet that encompasses all the information I need to calculate profit vs subscription fees etc.
I do already have multiple spreadsheets to calculate staking rewards and posts shared, but this development by CTP's main dev @BlainJones has made my day, and I'd like to express my heartfelt thanks to him for putting in the work to add this functionality.
My Listnerds Journey So Far
All in all, I have found listnerds to be a very positive experience.
For me, it is a way to discover new people's blogs that share similar interests to mine and to promote content, both new and old, and get new eyes on high-quality fiction that I could have submitted to literary journals but decided to self-publish on hive instead.
I have been around steem/hive for 5 years now, and I have seen many serious writers leave to write on Medium or Patreon because of the seven-day payout window.
I completely understand why the payout window is essential to stop spammer/plagiarism abuse, but I think that listnerds provides talented content creators with a way to help make those masterpieces they might have spent days creating evergreen.
Even if they don't earn Listnerd tokens by having the email approved, many professional writers care more about their work being read, and listnerds provides them with a chance to bring a new audience to their work.
Pros and Cons - I'm Not a Fanboy and Shoot Straight from the Hip 😂
Listnerds is a relatively new project, and on top of that, it has been launched in the middle of a crypto bear market so there are a lot of issues that would be solved with the renewed interest that a bull run would bring to hive.
This list is by no means meant to disparage or criticise, but I am playing devil's advocate here and pointing out the difficult points as an aid to inspire possible solutions.
| Listnerds can be used for both affiliate marketing or content discovery | The Listnerd token needs further utility to bolster demand |
| The earning potential through staking rewards is great | Since the team has dropped the buy wall liquidity is low |
| As early adopters, with a little patience, we will all be ahead of the curve | Listnerds isn't listed on any major exchanges like Bittrex limiting price appreciation |
| Listnerds encourages people from the affiliate marketing world to learn content creation | The team could be more active in seeking out partnerships (perhaps with Leofinance) and announce them to the CTP community |
| Listnerds is rapidly becoming known in the wider hive ecosystem | Listnerd's only utilities at the moment are to increase voting power and staking rewards |
All of these pro and cons are points that I'm sure many people have considered but not mentioned for fear of rocking the boat.
I'm not trying to rock the boat either, but at the same time I was educated to practice critical thinking, and as I attended many peer-reviewed writing workshops at university I know how helpful it can be to brainstorm a project.
If I have got any of my observations wrong in my pros and cons table, please don't hesitate to let me know in the comments section.
Web 3.0 Future is Bright
After that exercise in critical thinking, I would like to express how impressed I am at all the work that has been put into the Listnerd website and back-end blockchain coding. It boggles my mind that Blain does all the dev work himself, and I truly do take my hat off to you sir!
Thanks for the new update to the site, and I hope everyone can see this as one of many steps in building the best email marketing service in the web 3.0 world.
Thanks for reading.
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