



The Steem marketing team, in its last post, announced at least 3 new coming features:

a protocol to submite proposals and vote for them;

a "Communities" - or "groups" - or "subreddits", or what it will be - option

a 1-click sign-in procedure.

That's the most concrete content of the last Steemitblog post, as far as I understand. Then there are guidelines and a path to be walked. The whole vision looks very ambitious. I can't see how much of this ambition is real and how much is just motivational ;) But it doesn't matter. I like the project, even if I can't see the next steps clearly.

I mean, the goals to have "a Steem Ecosystem of Apps", to bet on a mobile app (nothing to say about eSteem?), to create a 1-click onboarding system, to have the post stream subdivided in Communities (like the subreddits are) are well plain.

Not so clear - at least to me - is this "crowdsourcing" and voting process from which the current community of active users should take out the way to achieve those goals. Using polls, perhaps? Letting spontaneous groups to develope new features (in a new interface) by themselves? Letting @andrarchy choose - after a discussion?

I'm trying to develope at least 3 simple services for Steemit and for Steem:

a Tutorial/Help page for italian users

a real e-shop to buy/sell things and services between Steemians using Steem and SteemDollar

an Art Gallery to attract in Steemit artists and let them earn money from their artworks.

That's why it is important to me to understand as soon as possible HOW the road Mitchell Loureiro (@zurvanic) and Andrew Levine (@andrarchy) designed will be walked down - specifically.

I would add this: as far as I saw, the most of the users who takes part actively in the developing of Steem and Steemit and in discussing it are programmers, developers, geeks. A great team - with its limits - that has already created many good external apps and services. But they have already given (and earned?) a lot... Is this early core of the Steemit community still willing to work for "free" and for a risky purpose? And is there a community out of this group?