What are the chances for a photo dApp to thrive in the Steem blockchain?

Do you still remember Steepshot? Many months ago it was one of the top Dapp for the Steem blockchain. I personally used it for my photography posts.

The interface is somewhat similar to Instagram, basically Steepshot is a decentralized version of it. And what I like about Steepshot is that I can directly monetized my photography contents by posting through it.

The UI was acceptable at the time of its release and if I remember correctly, the team who is developing the app actually invested a reasonable amount of Steem power to their own Steemit account ~ of course to reward it's users through upvotes.

At some point, Steepshot’s popularity didn’t progress even though it was also supported by some of the high-stake users. I can't answer for the others that stopped using the app, but I personally think that it was due to the fact that there is a cut on the earnings of its users ~ meaning part of the user's payout will be donated to Steepshot for its further development. This is what I can think of at that time.

The way I see it now is that the majority of photographers that are sharing their photography contents is for the simple reason that they want to showcase their skills & their artistic point of view of things. Of course, there are some professional photographers who actually intend to sell photos as part of their earnings, but most of us are just happy to share our pictures to the community.

And so aside from a good UI and monetary incentives, I think that a community that appreciates a work of art is the one being revered by the photographer more than anything else. Even if there are a lot of amazing photographers here in Steemit and we have more than one way to share our work through the Steemit interface or any other Dapps out there, it seems that the lack of engagement and appreciation to the photography contents is actually the one that is preventing the mass adoption of photographers to this amazing technology ~ the Steem blockchain.

So, if we really intend to use photography contents as the selling point for Steemit, I think we must first build a solid community that will consistently create contents and promote the contents outside Steemit.

FT

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