My SteemIt Story ~450 followers in 10 days
I got married to a wonderful woman and shortly after that she got pregnant. We are waiting for the baby now.
It is great!
The problem was that I quickly realised that my salary isn't enough.
I am a software developer. I specialise in automation programs. I thought that I could use the same skills in the internet. I started looking at faucet websites, thinking of ways to automate them. I am a busy person, so I can't possibly spend my time clicking on adds all day, but if a program could do that for me, it would be great.
Unfortunately I did not succeed.
While searching for faucets however, I discovered SteemIt.com
I thought : "Great! I could do that!"
But it was an illusion.
I only saw the front pages, where the whales swim. Only later did I see that most of the steemians are struggling to get a dollar or two.
Then I saw @randowhale. I loved the concept immediately. I didn't really want to use it (since I don't really need a lot of SP) but I loved the idea of bots who help the actual bloggers.
This is the moment to mention something. I am terrible at blogging. I am somewhat good at writing cool and artistic short stories, but when it comes to articles - I suck.
So... I decided to Not blog.
I decided to do what I'm good at instead.
I am a programmer, so I made a program.
. . .
Enter @resteembot !
Resteembot is a bot that resteems articles.
It requires very small payments, which are even smaller for people with very low reputation.
It instantly took off.
It started working 10 days ago and now it already has 441 followers.
I even made a second program that advertises the bot. I published it, so that other people (volunteers who like the project) could also run it and advertise with me.
And it happened! People actually did it!
@resteembot started growing really quickly after that.
It is so quick that I am forced to turn off the sound of my phone before going to bed. Otherwise the notification sounds are gonna wake me up every 15 minutes.
Today I woke up and saw 30+ transaction messages and comments.
The last 10 days have been very exciting for me.
Welcome to Steem Community @investigation! As a gentle reminder, please keep your master password safe. The best practise is to use your private posting key to login to Steemit when posting; and the private active key for wallet related transactions.
In the New Steemians project, we help new members of steem by education and resteeeming their articles. Get your articles resteemed too for maximum exposure. You can learn more about it here: https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@gaman/new-steemians-project-launch
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Interesting post. Does the bot use web scraping and standard posts, or is there some kind of web API you use? I've been strugling with writing something useful using scraping with steemd.com, but keep running into what seems to be anti scripting measures (temporary unavailable status after a number of GETs. So I kinda gave up on doing anything serious with it. But knowing that people are writing bots, that gives me some hope.
Is there an API? and if so, could you maybe give me a number of pointers as to where to start?
There is a good JS library and a better Python library.
There are other stuff too.
https://github.com/steemit/
so you make that bot !! I also like your concept , It helps to grow account of new users thanks you man , really appreciate that !
BTW Followed you and lets connect on steemit and grow our account :)
Sure. I followed you too.
Edit:
Oops. I followed with the wrong account.
I will login with @investigation and follow.
hahaha !! gotcha
followed
hello @shaivpidadi my name syauqi my id steemid @bluecorei3 nice to me you
What happened to it? Went to Discord and ppl think it's no longer available.
It works just fine.
Welcome to Steem @investigation I have upvoted and sent you a tip
Hi @investigation welcome to Steemit. I do hope that you have a wonderful time on this platform, if you have any questions or if there is anything I can help you with do not hesitate to ask, I will be more than happy to help.
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Well done @investigation. Great bit of software, and what a fantastic result for resteembot.
That's great! At this rate, you won't need to worry about supporting your new family - congratulations on the good news :) I will check out your bots.
I do not expect it to last forever, but at least it is working right now.
Even if it fails, I could still write it as an experience in my CV and it will still help me in my future jobs.
Sounds as if you have a shining future ahead Steem on :)
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