The first thing I saw when I arrived, years ago, from the artist/writer/entertainer perspective (someone who knows the business), was a future.
Now it's like building a puzzle but all the pieces are turned over. The picture will be a surprise I guess. I just hope it's not a dick going up the ass.
I mean some people pay extra for dick assing.. lmao.
If they manage to crack the secret sauce getting API nodes to not use a shit ton of expensive server resources (which in essence they have.. the requirements are way the fuck lower than they were) and manage to not hemorrhage all the developers and users in the mean-time it could still be a smashing success. hard to say really. I'm obviously still here and developing on HIVE so I haven't given up yet.. But also had to broaden my development work to other platforms in order to make a living.
I'm obviously still here as well and still see plenty of unrealized potential, which isn't a bad thing. Ran out of patience, but not fully. Still a drop left. I have opportunities outside of this space as well but I keep that life disconnected from this one here, so I don't talk about it much.
Makes sense. Not a bad idea to have an alternative plan as making a respectable living on HIVE is nearly impossible at this point. For supplemental income or an immutable store of shitposting it's king.. But I know personally I've not been able to survive off the income it provides me for a while now, hence the branching out.