Quote from: kidosneh on July 16, 2018, 11:44:20 PM

Quote from: ilnick on July 16, 2018, 09:39:23 PM

Very curious - what is this idea? More can you write? What is the essence of the project? What is money for? and why only $ 2000? This is not a big amount, but I really want to know why there is so little to start?

Alright. I'll spit it out in the most fairest manner, and I'll like to have anyone's opinion and if willing, partnership on this idea.

I've been researching and working project now for the past 5 months. In order to see what the future may hold for this kind of project, that's why I decided to pour out my thoughts about this project on this forum.
The project in question is about creating a very distinct, fluid, and transparent social network which will borrow features of three big media platform, blend them all together to give out a very interesting and lucrative platform for all kinds of people in the world.

Introduction
Today, we already have Facebook, the largest of them all, Twitter, Instagram, reddit, medium and the likes. We all find all these platform interesting for one reason or the other which varies person to person. But people now understand that no matter how much they use them, they are contributing to the deep pockets of the websites respective owners.
People today don't only want to post and gain some likes, followers and media trends or popularity for just vanity. They also want something that will keep inspiring their engagement with that specific platform. Something that will make them never want to leave. Something that will make them treat their social account in the same way as their bank wallet. Okay, What if all these things we do (posting, liking, commenting moderating, etc) on these kinds of platform are rewarding? 80 percent of YouTubers seeking a lot of subscribers are doing so all because they wanted to monetize their channel and therefore earn some decent income. A lot of people go blogging just for that same reason. Even on telegram today, we can see groups or channels with huge members all trying to monetize their efforts by doing some advertisements or promotional works and so on. If we so much believe we can monetize an account we open under a platform which isn't paying us, and is getting insane revenue from our data and time we spent aboard, then why cant we simply earn from a platform that is willing to share its own revenue with all its active users.

Advances
Now, in the last few decades, there are some platform that has proven the concept of a social network that rewards all its users for actively making use of the platform. Most of these base on blockchain and/or graphene technology, such as steemit, (which is an advance medium alternative), sola (a Pinterest alt), sphere, akasha, trybe to mention the few.
All these platform play it so well that most people using them find great urge to stick with them for life, why? Because, even if its little, they are being compensated for each and every of their action taken on the website. Except of we are trying not to be honest, we all wanted to make money. And we all wanted to have fun. What if we can money when we are having fun? What if the little things we share on social media are worth more? That's why platform like steemit are created.

Problems
Now, we all know human 'wants' can never be satisfied and there will always be choices and urges that will keep giving birth to searches and hunts for a need.
Now, we have an amazing alternative to medium that rewards us for blogging, another one for reddit which is trybe social, some others for YouTube and so on. But we are yet to see one for Facebook or twitter!
All this platform share the same quality and feature with their predecessors and then advanced it by introducing an amazing feature which is usage compensation.

Solution
Have you ever think of this, "People love it when they see their Facebook post getting thousands likes or views or comment, why? Are they getting paid for those likes and shares?" Same with Twitter!
Now what if a platform like Facebook start rewarding its users for engaging with the platform? For doing things we consider to be fun?
This is exactly what this idea is all about.
To create a platform which looks (UI/UX, except themes) and works exactly as Facebook (posting pictures, updates, videos, events memories, creating and joining groups, pages, making friends and chatting with loved ones, post items for sale) then add three amazing features (ability to post articles, engagement rewards, p2p payment and ranking system) to create an amazing platform which will be so interesting to millions of people around the world. This platform will have its own native cryptocurrency, which will be used across all services and activities on the network. It will also appear and work in the same way as Facebook, with a pretty different theme, UI and effects but reward in the same manner, pretty less compensation difficulty as steemit to control inflation.

I know to do this will require a lot of resources but most of which are not money related but rather time and energy and that's why I've made it open on the forum. Actually, I'm a web developer, but not so really good in other things but what if peer interest people like me can come together and pool their resources together to take this up. (Web developer, UI/UX developer, front end and back end engineer, blockchain developer, and so on).
The sad truth is a lot of people want to make it big in life, but whenever they are presented chance to take part in a journey from the start, they don't usually want to offer any thing on the table, but all wants to join the party when its big. And nothing in this world starts as big as it will be. It would have undergo some trials and hard times before finally getting there.
Samsung, Facebook, lots of super eateries and some great amount of others also start from somewhere with some little capital, and because they stick to that beautiful ideas, and advance their development and aims, they were able to achieve their goals.
$2k is not too low or too much to create a MVP of this (a web project), if one is actually creating this with groups of other developers and geeks. (I hope someone understand this)

I believe one thing, great success comes with great endeavors and responsibilities.

PS: I know using "$2k" seem so shady to many here, and its the shocking truth. Take it this way, what if person A can develop a website, and person B is good at blockchain and Person C and D are so well at front end works and back end works respectively and person E posses $2k to acquire a server space? What do you think would happen to their plans? Would they be able to achieve it? How would you term that on the first place? A scam? No.
In this world, we are all limited by circumstances. No body has it all. A talented footballer may have no access to a ball whereas lots of bloopers holds dozens of football on their shelves all day.

Please feel free to express your thoughts/opinions on this. Critics are also much welcome.

I've noticed quite some reactions here and I would say we are too quick to come to conclusions sometimes, I expected that he would have been asked to share his idea here and if he had refused then we can assume that he was here to scam but it was opposite

Mr Michael would say your idea here looks interesting and I must say it's a very important need that everyone on the social media today looks forward to having, but I can as well tell you that looking for funds from random people here is not close to what will help you to achieve your idea but rather would come with much more discouragement than you probably thought possible.

In my opinion I would suggest you start with surrounding yourself with people you could call technical team then eventually you can be able to put heads together and know how the financial aspect of the project can be realized

Chat me up inbox I'm interested