STEEM PROJECT #1
Here is the first project I'm working on!
On the surface, this appears to be a T-shirt sale, but in reality, it doubles as test of the STEEM blockchain to divert attention to products that can be pushed to real life.Let me explain.
There are three main targets to hit
To provide something cool and high quality for steemians to wear.
To utilize the blockchain to either self fund the project or to at least subsidize it.
To promote crowdsourcing of the design effort.
To test the community on steemit.com
To help generate funds for the next round of projects
With that said, let's begin!
Do you guys wish you had high quality STEEM gear that looked cool and you could proudly rock?
Unfortunately, thesteemshop.com doesn't have a very good selection of products out there with fashion in mind. The guys on the steemit have far bigger fish to fry on the platform and swag is last on their list!
I think wearable goods are REALLY missing with the marketing department, so to fix that problem, I teamed up with another steemian and used the funds from my last video to commission some art to create an awesome twist to the steem logo. But I need the community to help with the design.
Before I present the artwork to you, please be aware that the STEEMIT logo is trademarked by the website steemit.com, the STEEM logo is free to use since it is part of the open source blockchain. If the STEEM shirt is well received, I will make a similar design with the steemit logo, provided they like our product.
Now, this is where community participation is EXTREMELY important!
I will be buying ALL of these shirts upfront with my own earned income from my JAY OH BEE(read: 9-5 Job vs STEEM) What I hope will happen is that each time I post about a particular project and the subsequent posts behind it, there is enough interest in the community that spurs activity in the comments section. Upvotes that promote the post will help generate funds to fuel the project. If there is a lot of interest, and a lot of rewards being allocated to the blogs, I will use those funds to help purchase more shirts when the order finally goes in, or to help subsidize the shirts. But I REALLY want to GIVE AWAY the bulk of the shirts just to show how powerful this blockchain can be.
Just as a bonus to you guys, I will 100% be giving away 10 of the shirts away for FREE. Maybe more! maybe ALL of them! Who knows. How they will be selected will be based on a combination of how much you interact with this crowdsourced design, how much time YOU have personally invested into building your own profile on steemit and lastly, how much you interact with others on my blogs and on your own. Yes I will be spending a few days going through people's profiles to see who has been a good steemian.
Your SP is irrelevant!
The remaining shirts will be sold for STEEM or SBD ONLY!!! Pricing will be based on the live price of steem at the time of transaction. This might change to a fix steem price, I really haven't figured out how to best do this, but it is a learning process and if there is excessive funds being generated by my posts regarding this item, I will push to subsidize some price so it isnt outrageous. Again this is all a new thing to me!
Again, most of what I'm doing is to explore the possibilities with the blockchain and to build ontop of what I learn.
Here is the first design that we came up with!
Community Questions:
Can you easily recognize that it is a STEEM logo?
What do you like about it? be specific, Do you like the curve on the M? Do you like using one of the steem logos as the S in steem?
Where should the logo be located on a T shirt? Center mass? on the back? On the breast?
Judge this as critically as you want.
Photo of the day, YES I AM STILL DOING THESE!!! I'm stuck in the office today because of a snowstorm that has swallowed most of NY. Schools are closed but I am still at work! What we see here is a view looking down onto Madison Square park in NYC on Madison Ave and 26th street. Visibility is only several hundred feet and the winds are up to 50MPH. Suffice to say, today has been pretty quiet!!!
