Why Build Finally Network?
Lets start the story with why? It’s important to be clear with the intention behind this project from the start and share my reasoning and ideas behind creating this platform.
The solutions to these problems should be the guide to creating this platform. If the problems aren’t worth solving then perhaps the platform is not worth creating?
In general creatives are using social media platforms to publish their work and gain exposure. While less necessary over the past few years it’s common to have a central website that links out to social networking site while also acting as a central place to showcase work, sell products or add extra information. Currently Steem apps are just another form of social media, they look and feel like what has come before and are treated as such. A website may link to a users instagram, youtube and Steemit blog. I believe If the Steem network wants to grow it needs to be a more integral part of a creators platform.
What is stopping a creator using a Steem app as their main hub for content/information?
Are there any reasons creators wouldn’t want to use current Steem apps? If they are already using the apps is there any reason why they wouldn’t share the content and help bring more users to the network?
~Thoughts
Lack of personality/expression
Everything looks the same. Travel stories, fitness blog, photography, daily vlogger the UI is all the same regardless of how well it fits the creators content.
Lack of control
As a creator there is no control over the user flow. A visitor to your blog may find their way to other content. To the mainstream audience Crypto can have a bad reputation. Couple this with a trending page that is often full of less than quality content and it causes creators to hold back from sharing their content (or not use the blockchain at all).
Lack of features
- filtering/grouping content
- Highlight or sticky content?
- Embed support
- Membership levels/support features
- Notifications
With these problems in mind I see the key aims of Finally Network to be.
Act as/replace the traditional ‘website’ for creators. Often creates use many social media sites but still have a home hub website that can showcase their work. Finally can act as that site but automate connections with the Blokchain.
Reduce any barrier to ‘sharing’ content. I hear from people that there is a hesitation to share content from the steem platform to outside networks.
Give extra controls and features not currently available on steem platforms.
Why finally for me?
Personally I like the idea of an internet where creators have the ability to showcase their work in a way that feels right to them. With the current state of social media all content feels homogeneous and is less exciting to explore. Themes aren’t perfect but it feels better than the current status quo of identical social media pages.
I meet a lot of interesting creatives and want to introduce them to the Steem blockchain but hesitate because of it’s reputation (in part due to /trending). I want to help fix that. I like the idea of “hey you’re doing something cool. I can get you setup on the steem blockchain super fast and it’ll look awesome”.
In the next post I’ll be sharing some thoughts on the Finally Roadmap.
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There is a lot to like about the idea of Finally Network, and you lay out the reasons for its development well. There are, however, important parts missing from this post, to my mind.
I know you didn't originally write this post as a Utopian post, which I would guess is why you didn't use the template. But it would be good to add the repository link. I only know for sure that this is an open source project because I looked at your previous post. Speaking of the previous post. As this is clearly a series, it should have a link to that post. Without it, this post is a bit confusing.
One thing that interests me, as someone who has a website, is static areas. Stuff like "about" and "contact" that shouldn't be pushed down as new posts come in. I hope that's something you're working on. In the previous post, you mentioned "portfolio posts," but that seems to be about recent posts.
The post had some issues of style and grammar, and I would recommend working to clean those up in future posts in the series. You're presenting a major new dApp, and want the presentation to be as effective as possible. I'm happy to provide specific examples in a follow-up comment if wanted.
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Thanks for taking a look at the post. I'll take a look at the recommend template before working on another update post.
Thanks, will make it more clear which posts are relevant.
Static areas (when ready) will be static as expected
"Portfolio" will be a new style of theme. Extra options will be added to display content via
Yes please, if you have suggestions feel free to let me know.
Thanks again 🚀
Here are some examples of sentences that could have been better:
"It’s important to be clear with the intention behind this project from the start and share my reasoning and ideas behind creating this platform." Two issues here. First, it badly needs a comma before "and." Also, I would write "clear about," not "clear with."
"The solutions to these problems should be the guide to creating this platform." This is just a clunky sentence. How about: "The solutions to these problems should serve as a guide in creating this platform."?
"If the problems aren’t worth solving then perhaps the platform is not worth creating?" Comma before "then." Or even instead of "then."
"I believe If the Steem network wants to grow it needs to be a more integral part of a creators platform." A few issues. "I believe that if" work better. There should be a comma before "it." "Creators" should be "creators'"
These are just examples. The biggest takeaway is that if you would make a short pause while saying a sentence, you should probably put a comma there when you write it.
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I really love your project, I share some of the same goals as you with my proto-project Gleeming. Looking forward to see how your beta goes, good luck!
Thanks you, I appreciate the support. There is a significant amount of work to get the platform to the standard I would like but it's great to see people interested already. Always open to suggestions if you have any to offer.
yes! you better preach!
I'm working migrating my old food blog off wordpress and our current hosting onto steemit and I'm so stoked to use Finally for that as well.
Keep up the great work Sam!
Thanks for the support @dayleeo. Your food blog sounds like a great use for Finally. Would be cool to get you feedback on the current state of the themes (I realise they need work). I'm working on an update today that should make getting setup easier and more obvious.
I can’t wait to start using Finally!
For sure mate! Incoming collaboration - Arch student edition.
Sounds like a great project
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Thanks! more info/updates dropping next week.
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