The gamification aspect of 
The Bounty System
Without a doubt is the bounty system the most incentivizing tool I have seen since I joined the Steem blockchain. It promises large future stakes of websites and apps for promotion, activity and Steem Power delegations. This way the projects can grow quickly and find audiences who hunt these tokens and pave the way for a wider adoption through testing the early stages.
Steemhunt offers bounties for the following activities done via their website:
- Product Hunt Posting
- Post upvote
- Post resteem
- Steem Power delegation
- Airdrop on Steem Power holders (must be manually claimed)
The Steem Upvotes (And Future HUNT Upvotes)
Every user can make one post per day over a new gadget via Steemhunt and will get a guaranteed upvote from the platform if the rules were applied. The strength of the upvote depends on the Hunter Level of the user. This is a clever score based on reputation, account age, Steemhunt activity, diversity score (which is entire score with several elements on its own measuring how diverse your upvotes were distributed) and approved hunts of your own.
Even more exciting is the comment feature that gives up to ten daily upvotes for comments done on different hunts. This is a massive incentivization to participate in the dynamics of the platform. Some might claim that these comments are somewhat fake as people just want to grind the rewards. But I think that most people will quickly find a good way of creating valuable comments as they engage more in the community. The business model of Steemhunt includes a referral link back to the original product website in order to create revenue. And each comment is valuable for that endeavor because they improve the Search Engine Optimization and lead to better Google and co. results.
Gamification For Future Apps
By combining bounty hunting and Smart Media Tokens we can quickly find support and build a user base. The users will stay active and grow in numbers through financial gains of using the various systems empowered by the Steem blockchain. Gamification is the factor that can be implemented to determine the value of the user to the platform and give it back accordingly.
It can be used to conquer abuse of the system with a level system that rewards beneficial behaviour for the platform. But it can also motivate users to bring more value to the platform. The higher a level rises, the better the rewards can be and that in a pretty decentralized way. Working with apps like Steemhunt means to increase ones income with a voluntary, interesting side-activity.
The more we progress we will see all sorts of gamified aspects in Steem and SMT apps as the basic of Steem itself is basically nothing else as a sophisticated browser game with numbers. What would you like to see in future SMT apps to pay you for something?