Learn to build in public
Are you building something?
A maker's shop? A web platform?
Honing your craft to sell products or services? Working on side projects? Out of work, and seriously considering entrepreneurship?
There's a large, and well engaged community ready to help you! There are experienced folx, and new folx who are as eager to learn as you!
One great place to start is with the #buildinpublichashtag on Twitter.
I recently thought of a great community to begin to develop here on Steem: a read aloud community.
It's nice to be able to find children's books being read online. I've seen a number of videos where educators have recorded themselves reading for their class.
It could be especially nice with good production value like highlighting key words, animating characters from the pages, panning & zooming, and character voices.
As a community here on Steem, if folks would delegate funds as a member fee in order to get access, rewards could be distributed among creators on a regular basis beyond the 7-day rewards payout.
I have thought about doing read-aloud, too. There are copyright challenges, but it might work with public domain documents from before 1924 or licensed under creative commons. For kids, Aesop's fables and Hans Christian Andersen spring to mind as obvious examples... (although, I learned about a decade and a half ago that the original versions of Aesop's Fables were surprisingly graphic in nature).
As were the Grimm's tales.
But, there's a whole realm of possibilities there, too with different adaptations of those stories than what you find in common contemporary versions.
One of our favorite podcasts has been "Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest", fairy tale podcast by Adam Gidwitz. He finds the oldest version of Grimm tales that he can, and reads it to school classes. But he adds his own adaptations, too.
Oh yeah, right! It was Grimm's that I was thinking of. Sorry. They all blur together since I haven't been reading them to anyone recently.
Ha!
Daily part of my life still!
It would be nice to build something that fosters a creator community whose scope and scale is different than what has emerged out of the Steem blockchain framework so far.
Another community idea that I've been thinking about is to post summaries of public meetings. For example, we have the Delaware Valley Life community that sort-of fizzled out after the Hive fork.
When we regain membership in the local area, I was thinking that a good use of the community would be to post links to YouTube videos of meetings like Planning Commissions, Township Supervisors, and School board meetings, along with summaries of the topics that are covered.
This could be coupled with a pinned post at the top to maintain an index of Steem posts by date, location, and meeting type. Maintaining that index could be a lot of work, though, so it would definitely need to be a community-wide effort.
That's great!
I've been thinking about similar things because I've been speaking with the founder of Bloc by Block news. They're developing an app to aggregate local news in an effort to highlight important stories that you'd otherwise miss. And one of the features will be information about these types of meetings.
What are you working on? Share your ideas / links below!