1 year on steemit. Happy B-day to me!

Hi friends,

Time flies and now I'm a 1 year old steemian. It's been a wonderful and very educational process where first the money attract many users and as the old saying goes: came for the money stayed for the community.

This has been very true for most of the people I've also meet in this platform. But the friends I've made along the way and the progress in the platform has been incredible.

If you are new to this social platform try to follow the beginner guides, advises and tips. When I made my intro I believe it was fine or ok at the moment but now I'm ashamed of my laziness in creating this post. But from that first moment I realized 2 things, there were welcome bots and then people will not see or read your posts because of your low reputation or lack of visibility, either way you should say as they advise get engage reply people's posts and maybe when you create your intro post you will be noticed and even voted and it is likely that you will earn more than I did.

Bots welcoming some how kind of started to pick on my I head and I wanted to created a welcome bot but also help new steemians join the first community I got to know #minnowsupport project. It is a great project and teaches people about the platform.

More on the welcome bot later on. My second post pretty much was short and expressed something that is still very true nowadays. Digital De-clutter in searg of peace of mind, simple life and less stress life. It is kind of funny that I made that post in another social platform. What I really wanted to express is that I quite all those fake posts and people on other popular platforms but to my surprise I found something that kind of incorporate everything in a platform and also I could of see more honest people and posts.

I have to thank my whole experience to @mericanhomestead as he mentioned this platform in one of his youtube videos you can read the post I made about that. In fact I got to talk in real life (through steem.chat) with him and I was so happy that my wife laugh at me when I told her that I was talking to the bearded guy of the videos hahaha

I kept on advancing in the game just like an RPG game and managed to attract some followers, I also made friends and got to know some people. I offered my services to @martin.mikes to fix and maintain @treeplanter's old code for free. But then something happened. @tuanis project was born, I was fixing @treeplanter code written in Ruby and I decided I wanted to learn and create a bigger project in NodeJS and that's where @tuanis started to grow. I kind of replicate the @treeplanter behavior and focused on what worked correctly but also tried to fix and improve everything that the old code was lacking. I wanted to show that @tuanis code base added more and it was about time to switch over it. I convince @martin.mikes to switch over my code.

Features added:

• better transfers handling
• Queue enhancements to wait for SP to recover
• Auto refunds
• Daily report and visual reports of the bot status

As part of that code I also created a way to welcome new steemian, provide them the required funds for #minnowsupport registration and allow people to follow some other projects like @tipu, @helpie and @qurator.

This was possible with the inspiration and support of great people and just to mention a few of them:

• @oleg326756
• @scrooger
• @kus-knee
• @martin.mikes
• @kedjom-keku
• @treeplanter
• @schoolforsdg4
• @azizbd
• @tremendospercy
• @markwhittam
• @rhyt

With everything that was going on I found myself participating and growing my stats to be able to participate in some other projects to help me grow, learn and be a better steemian. Those projects that I'm part of are:

• @feedyourminnows
• @qurator
• @make-a-whale
• @helpie
• @steembasicincome

Currently I'm the developer of both @tuanis and @treeplanter

I would like to share some posts that I've made about the projects and steemit as well.

• Thinking on a giveaway/contest/program?
• Status of @tuanis
• Treeplanter is not a bid-bot, so what is it?
• At the beach thoughts

I hope this post is useful to new steemians and to my friends reading it please share it with your audience to be able to reach to more people. Any support will be also appreciated. Thanks for reading.