New Piece on Sale at MakersPlace

in OnChainArt4 years ago

Here's a preview of my new piece for sale now on MakersPlace. You can check out the full animation there.

I sold my first piece on MakersPlace the other day for .4 ETH(~$96). but MakersPlace takes 15%. We really need to get a piece of that action on Hive people. I know Hive Engine's got something happening with NFT's although I haven't looked much into it, but whether it's that, or we just use Ethereum, but pair it with a Hive Frontend, it seems like these two things would go together really well.

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The piece I sold

At some point I do want to create a separate frontend for OCA, and I think having something like this integrated and easy would be amazing. Any devs wanna partner with me on that? Hit me up if you're interested.

Anyway, anytime I use any blockchain app, I'm always comparing it to Hive. What are they doing right or wrong, what can we learn from them. I think with MakersPlace what they've successfully done is made their UX pretty idiot proof. The parts that might be challenging for a total noob are outside their experience. ie Downloading MetaMask, selling the ETH. But you can connect a Coinbase wallet directly to your account there, so I think that's about as easy as possible currently.

All the blockchain stuff is happening totally behind the scenes. I don't think it's particularly necessary for a user there to know anything about blockchain other than this thing they receive is worth money and they can sell it on Coinbase.

I think this is what we can learn from them. We're too focused on our blockchain. Nobody cares about that. People just care about a useful app or service. That needs to be the focus. What opportunities can we offer you. What services. Unfortunately I think the masses don't value enough their privacy or the concept of ownership or censorship resistance. I feel like we've come to a place where people don't like to market this place as a place to earn money, but at the end of the day, that's a huge value proposition.

One of the reasons I've always been such a huge advocate for tipping is because I think if Hive ever catches on, tipping will be the MAIN way people reward content, and upvotes will be more exclusive. Why? Because if Hive catches on the barrier to entry to be able to give meaningful upvotes will be too high. Honestly it's already too high. Don't get me wrong, it SHOULD be high, but in order for this to be a platform that can actually sustain people, it can't all be coming from the Hive reward pool.

I think SMT's can also ease the stress on Hive as well as long as they're implemented in a smart way.(They're easy to create, set parameters, and integrate into a Community) Then an individual Community might not care as much about Hive if their Community/Dapp token has decent value. These things need to work in conjunction with tips and be very easy to use/buy so that the blockchain and technical stuff can fade out into the background and people can focus on coming here and consuming or creating content.

This really turned into a UX post, but whatev. Check out my store on MakersPlace!

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Man, great piece! Also, thanks for introducing me to Makersplace. I remember hearing about it a long time ago, but never got on there. Setting up a profile now (Well, waiting for an invite really)

I hope your works continue to do well!! I see this piece has already sold quite a bit!! Congratulations!!!

I haven't really experimented with tipping but I might just have to give it a go! I didn't expect to gather such insight from this post! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the direction of Hive!

Thanks @cryptoknight12! Tipping is the future I think. Here's a tip :)

Wow, my first ever Hive tip. Cheers @midlet. I'll be paying that forward to do my part in promoting the use of tipping on peakd!

So much love this work,the movement and the flow,from my own view,Ill say this talks about out emotions,including the half silent water

Hacer algo genial con cosas simples es verdadero arte.

Yo aun no lo logro, pero a ti te sale muy bien.

Whoa, amazing again @midlet You are doing it! Well done, ah makers place, must make time for you...

Thx @donnadavisart! Highly recommend getting on these sorts of platforms.

This is so creative and I really love it

Thanks @onyechi, glad you like :)

O, that's amazing! I like this effect of the infinity object)

This is just the greatest thing i seen in a while there. Congrats! These are going to fetch much more. i wish i had saw that then :D

 4 years ago  

Ohh wow, I saw this yesterday and at first glance didn't realize you made it :O The full animations is epic.
Also Makersplace looks interesting, signing up for invitation :D
I tried to sign up as a creator on Knownorigin almost a week ago, but still nothing.

hey @midlet,

your idea of building new app/service similar to makersplace on Hive Blockchain is a great new use case for our world. Pages like Superrare or Makersplace are very exciting new ways of interaction and opportunity of different life for many underrated, unknown artists, open hearts and crazy heads.

Higher attention on social media and higher volume on exchanges guaranteed!

Perhaps it is wise to mention this idea on official hive discord, where you can reach more devs or people with similar attitude.

I wish you all the best !

Congrats on selling some work! I am going to have to check that site out for my wife. She might want to make some stuff!

 4 years ago (edited) Reveal Comment

I hate coming up with names for this stuff.