Quote from: ChuckOne on February 11, 2014, 10:18:32 PM

Quote from: jl777 on February 11, 2014, 08:20:43 PM

THINK BIG!

BCNext gave us a platform to build on. Like the Internet protocol when it only supported email. Sure email was useful as compared to faxes, but most people back then actually sent physical letters through the mail! How many protocols run on top of IP today? How many things can we build on top of NXT? What will be the http equivalent for NXT?

James

As much as I agree with you, you should consider one thing:

a platform without services/items/etc. on it is nothing.

These things don't come easily and won't be created by a small community. It is essential that we spread the news and keep the community growing further and further.
So, popularity is very much important.

THINK BIG!

It's sort of a catch-22. We need services to drive adoption, whether it's something seemingly small like a reddit tipbot or a paradigm shift like AE.

We can spread the news; marketing is important!

So we drive new users to what? A clusterfuck of a client with no services and a Nxt core with unlimited potential.

We don't even have a simple web gateway to sell Nxt-branded items in NXT yet.

What are we driving new users TO?

personally, I think James (and everyone else) need to throw as many ideas at the wall as possible and see what sticks. CfB, Jean-Luc and BCNxt are doing the heavy lifting in the background... services aren't distracting us from completing a strong, fundamental core.