More than 5 years ago, the liotes project was born and the amazing thing is that the project is still around and we are doing well. The problem is that the broader environment that we are in, is maybe not doing as well as we hoped. Maybe we also don't have the same energy that we had 5 years ago. We had some discussions with 
Liotes should attract people from outside of Hive
I believe we are doing quite a good job to keep people motivated on hive through our curation program, our liotes ranking, our liotes missions but we need to accept that we haven't managed much in terms of bringing people from the outside of hive. We tried to run a youtube channel but after one video, we kind of realized that we didn't know what to make videos about...
Income that is independent of the Hive ecosystem
We have tried quite often to get an income from outside the hive ecosystem. We tried to invest into other blockchains and also tried to build a kind of referral marketing concept where people would get rewards for doing some small tasks and we would get a referral commission that we would invest in the project. You guys played along very well but the income that we managed to generate like that was not worth all the work.
The situation has changed
In the past our biggest issue was not knowing how to code and build our ideas. Thanks to AI this threshold has become much lower. While we had tons of ideas in the past, it's now the ideas that are a bit scarce. We have to realize that things have changed a lot in the crypto world and while we believed that we could earn from everywhere, we see now that the potential income sources have dwindled.
The big question: routine or innovation
In the last months, we have reduced our brainstorming sessions and more or less concentrated only on our duties and routine actions. This is what makes the project go on, to grow our hive power and the value of our tokens, at least in hive value. But this doesn't really allow us to see big and try to innovate.
My opinion is that if we just continue with the routine stuff, we will all end up bored in a kind of pseudo interaction. So I would like to try to give myself a kick and go for some innovative bigger project but to do that, I kind of need the help of the community. Also I believe it would be an opportunity for the Liotes community to come together and work as a community. With the objective to build something that increases our reach, brings income from the outside of hive and defines a new energy for us and for the community.
I would love to hear your feed-back on this and maybe share your ideas.
