Thanks. To answer, I have zero interest in a pump and dump. In fact, all coins would be distributed to users and the company would own none.
If you were working within the marketing plan I contemplated for my altcoin, your company could also get some coins too. So that is another way you monetize your app in addition to any other ways you already planned.
In terms of tipping other users, I believe that should be enabled but not directly associated with voting because that would act as a disincentive to upvoting. Instead, the company would be the original fount of all coins.
Yes you should be a faucet for coins, but these coins should not be just for your app, but for many 100s of apps (done by others). More faucets, more scaling.
Dogecoin was apparently successful with users tipping. I am not sure if tipping is a disincentive to voting. Seems to correlate well to upvoting and disincentivizes vote spamming. If you want votes to more accurately reflect value, IMO they shouldn't be free and thus users need coins to vote (but of course do what you think is best if you feel that interferes too much with your usership ... remember I don't know your entire model so I can't access details like that within your overall model for this app).
In terms of millions of users, that's the long-term goal. In fact, you are exactly right about the 1000s of users being the correct short term goal, as we will be location-based.
Again a perfect fit to the marketing plan I was contemplating. Exactly what I was thinking that some apps would be more specialized (e.g. location based), thus aggregating many apps through one coin would provide network effects to all those apps plus the coin. Again I think you should take this private messages with me, because I don't want to discuss all my plans in public yet (and also not sure about my plans).
As long as the coin works, I'm perfectly happy to fork litecoin or whatever. I see no shame in the term "copycoin", imitation being the highest form of flattery.
Seems I can't get you to appreciate the value of interopting on scaling through a common coin with other apps. And I can't get you to appreciate to focus on your core competency and not try to do everything yourself. If we can't make headway on this understanding, then I need to invest my time else where. Thanks for the discussion.
What about using the NXT monetary system? Anyone have any experience with that? Also, who are the service providers who could create a BTC fork for me for 1 BTC?
NXT might have something that will work for you. I had seen something about those who will create a coin for you on NXT for 1 BTC afair. The SuperNet attempts to provide much of the infrastructure and I think it is still under development. But frankly I don't really understand the entire NXT ecosystem. I don't even know where to find all the information about NXT, SuperNet, etc..
Frankly I am concerned about if any of those coins can provide for example microtransactions or other features you will probably need to really add the value to your app with coin integration.
Bitshares and NXT are working in that direction, so you may want to look at those, but again those are both
Proof-of-Stake which I think is flawed. Perhaps the SuperNet has some Proof-of-Work integration, but I don't know. IMO I don't think the world will adopt a PoS coin (based on the
linked reasons).