RE: SteemPlus Budget Proposal - Feb 2018
@stoodkev I love the project and thank you very much for making a second proposal to review what was done after the first and ask for new funding! @budgets just sent 25 SBD to help boost the visibility of this and I plan to resteem also when I have a free spot!
When I started my company in October 2011, I was very eager to look like a real business by having an office, starting an LLC, and hiring people to help.
By October 2014, it was a miracle I was still in business and I had over $100,000 in debt to show for it featuring maxed out business credit cards and personal loans to pay the bills. To survive, I gave up all of the "look like a business" stuff, minimized my expenses, and focused on just doing what I needed.
In October 2017 and still today after six years in business, I still work at home and have no one working with me full time even though I can afford more than ever to have a nice office and a full time employee. I minimize expenses and focus on helping others the most.
Given my experience, would you consider running a more lean operation built to survive on less for now because we are still very early in the process of collaborating and building an app? I am talking with a few developers on huge projects that could end up taking nearly all of the budget for months. The price of Steem might drop further.
Will 500 Steem be enough to continue funding the project because
I would love to fund you for another 500 Steem this month on the expenses that will be the most effective while producing the least liability? An office in my opinion and a full time employee are liabilities. A contractor with a work at home office and putting off the LLC until revenue is coming in from another source might also reduce expenses?
@jerrybanfield, thanks a lot for your help and advices.
I guess you re right and I should go step by step in my venture, especially during this crypto bloodbath.
Until things settle down and I can make sure that my revenue streams are sufficient, I will follow your advice and keep working with freelancers. I do have some big projects coming soon that will require more devs to work on it but luckily I have this formidable platform that is Utopian, so it should still be doable.
500 STEEM would be of a great help already, as for this month they helped me speed up the development by a great extent!
Once again thank you for this opportunity to grow my extension!
@stoodkev thank you for collaborating with me on funding this and being open to receiving my feedback because I am happy to know my experience is useful for more than just me! I sent the 500 Steem and just installed Steem plus!
I love the initial features like true account value and the upvote options. I am happy to see you are planning more features from Steemit More Info because I used to use that and now do not because it is buggy.
The initial warning from Chrome was scary because it told me your extension can view and change data on all websites? I accepted it because we are here now.
I believe in learning from my mistakes and in that case from your past mistakes ^^
For some personal reasons (I am an expat in Taiwan), I will need to set up a legal entity in the future, but following what you've said, I'm convinced that I should do things step by step.
Also, I m really grateful for these 500 STEEM and can assure you they will be well spent!
I ve released one of the biggest additions to SteemPlus today (Integration of Utopian-1UP curation trail and total redesign of the popup, post in here ) and its fast development was in part due to your initial funding!
Steemit More Info integration should be operational this month for sure.
The Chrome alert is normal for an extension that adds things on your browser. Looking at the code, it only starts on Steemit, Busy, Utopian and mspSteem actually. The code is completely opensource because indeed there can be abuses with extensions and I want to be completely transparent. The code is available in here.
I also could be interested in helping in some of your projects, could we speak on Discord? (@stoodkev) I can't add you directly, I guess I shouldn't be surprised, you must get spammed a lot!
Would you join my discord channel at https://jerrybanfield.com/contact/ because then we can chat more?
Thank you very much for telling everyone
Hey @jerrybanfield,
You have amazing personality. Yourposts are also good. Please help me out my reputation is going to low If it will not increase i will left Steemit:). Please help me out
Sure, I m in there already!
Thank you very much for telling everyone