Thanks a lot for mentioning us and helping us out, it means a lot!

And yeah, first of all about the silent part. We won't sugar coat it, it's been rough. Steem and blockchain is kind of frowned upon in Norway as we keep getting stuck on the "where does the money come from" part from all the skeptics. We try to explain, but haven't found a good enough way to do it yet, but slowly getting there. Another thing is of course resources, we're not funded and we rent ourselves out as consultants on the side to get funding for the project (we thought we could do everything ourselves but turns out we can't design, market, finance etc).

Another hickup has been Instagram showing their big boy pants over our name, which is unfortunate. We are currently in a dispute in the Norwegian patent office as we have the trademark for deegram but they want us to lose it.

And our last excuse is that we've been kinda shy and not wanted to brag a lot to steem as we aren't as experienced as the rest in here. But as you say, we haven't given up.

Regarding the concept and functionality, we've been back and forth. We're currently in a phase of redefining our vision and value proposition, not only to differentiate ourselves from the other image sharing platforms, but to make ourselves approachable to the masses.

User centered development both in terms of features and what Deegram should be is our main focus right now (as well as iterating over the product, because as @fredrikaa says: we're far from done).

The bright side is that for every Norwegian we attract to the app (and a couple of them has already made around 30 cents and are astounded), the closer we get to worldwide adoption.

We're all doing our part in this ecosystem, and we finally feel like we contribute as well!