Programmer or a Project Leader? Or both? .:. Late Night Blogging
I will try to keep this post shorter than usual... I know I say that every time and it's never like that... 😃 I'm one of the co-owners of the @liotes project along with @achim03 and we are trying different methods of engagement with Hivians, our small community, and the audience in general...
One of the methods is the so-called "missions" that we run every Wednesday and the concept is very simple... We ask a question in a post on our main account @liotes, and people comment on the post... The incentive to do it is to have fun in the first place as questions are known to be very provocative, and we support commenters with small upvotes... Interestingly, 90% of the comments are high-quality comments, sometimes even better than some posts!
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Also, I have to say that most questions are Achim's ideas and I occasionally drop some, but in most cases, he takes care of the "missions"... The last question that we asked the community was: "What Hive Project was the biggest disappointment for you?" You can check out the post here... What is more important than the post itself, is the comment section, you have to check out that! And of course, if you didn't reply to that question, I would encourage you to do so...
One of the latest comments was by @gadrian where he (at the end of his comment) said:
"What a question to ask after a bear market though, guys, lol!"
That was a trigger for me to write this post... While he is 100% right that it's maybe not an "adequate question" to ask for at the end of the long bear market, on the other side, why not ask? You know that old thing with EXCUSES... Use every possible situation to blame your failure...
While Adrian didn't say that, it is obvious that many projects have suffered a lot from the last bear market and many didn't "survive" it... Don't want to brag, but everyone who has been in crypto for more than 1 cycle, knows that... That has to happen... It always happens...
On the other side, can we blame it all on the bear market? Some of the projects that were mentioned in the comments died at the beginning of the bear market... They didn't even taste the real pain... But, why???
In my opinion, the answer is in the title of this post... We have many talented programmers, and coders on HIVE and they can create some super-useful tools, dapps, scripts, etc. But, in most of the cases, many of those failed projects were "one-man-show" projects... Where, 1 person would do EVERYTHING, from designing the page, through coding, marketing, tokenomics, promotion, etc. That is possible and it can succeed, but very, very rarely... I would say in a lottery-win percentage...
However you look, you always conclude that you should do what you know to do the best! I remember numerous examples from my life where I had to do things that were important for my father, where he would spare, for example, $10... At the same time, I would lose double that on expenses + lost time when I could be a lot more productive (doing "my stuff")...
The same goes for our failed projects... If I know how to code, and then I jump to design a logo, I lose my precious time in LEARNING the other skill and I will never be as good as in my primary skill, or as some other professional... In the end, my design sucks and my code has bugs as I didn't spend enough time checking it throughout...
That's just one example, but there are more like this... Nobody is perfect, but sometimes you have people who are "pretending" to be more valuable than they are... You contract them, they don't deliver what they had to, and you waste precious time searching for replacement... Which can be the same as the first one... This sounds like a rare case, but believe me, that happens more often than expected...
Forming a team is a tough job... I know that very well as I'm trying to find people for our Liotes project all the time, but either I'm picky, or people are not interested in going into the blockchain adventure... But, creating a quality team, and having a project leader(s) is the only way how you can create a quality product/project that can last... As soon as we realize that we CAN'T do it all alone, we will have long-lasting, quality products that will add value to our lives and the lives of other Hivians...
Now, I would like to expand on the question that we asked in Liotes and ask you...
What do you think, what was the reason that those projects have failed?
Thank you for your time,
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I've read the autobiographies of nearly all of the "Dragons" from the various Dragons Den programmes and one of the successful factors for me that is apparent in all of them is that they build a good team around them and not do everything themselves. That said, they also focused nearly all their time on the project at the expense of everything else, so no balance there!
I suppose that's the price that you have to pay when you are building a business... On the other side, when you create a good team, I suppose that it gets better with the free time, and family that knows to suffer the most...
Yes I think so. It also depends your goals too I suppose and setting yourself limits.
I don't consider myself or my projects a failure... LOL... As a one man band, it is hard to do everything, but I finally have everything in a direction that I want them to be going in so I can now just maintain and make sure I am pumping out as much quality content across them all as I can.
Hehehehe.. I didn't notice that anyone commented or mentioned any of the projects that you run in that "mission post"... :) Also, you are still here and building, which is a big difference... You didn't abandon your projects :)
Good to hear that everything goes in the right direction!
I know, but folks also know I am a one man band and I just wanted to put it out there, lol...
Not sure about that... I remember that you mentioned some help from your youngsters... 🙂 Support from family is always counted as another member :)
I HAD support from them for a little while, these days it's all me, lol. They are doing their own thing now.
I don't really blame him for saying that because everyone was in FOMO during the bull market. It really does depend on the community and the developers to add value for a token. It reminds me a bit about how CTP was doing great until a few things happened. CTPSB is going to rebrand and shift away from the CTP token. Sports had a lot of things they considered but most of it did not play out.
Now when I read your comment, I would say that in your opinion, it's a lack of vision and focus... In every business, you have good days and bad days... And to survive those bad days, I suppose that you have to stick to the plan and keep your focus sharp! Maybe that was lacking to some...
Yea. I think most of these projects need to have a plan and make sure they move towards it. The communities were just lacking that to an extent.
I take this also FOMO :)) it is hard to see how good is one thing in bull market time , but in bear time .... if the project survives the entire bear market, then there is more hope that it is something big in long run.
Yes. Anything is possible if they survive, but I don't think they will grow as large as the ones putting in work towards development during the bear market.
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I think that you expressed the issue in a very good manner. I think that there are also a lot of projects out there that sell what they can't deliver yet and they hope that with a miracle or two, they will find a solution on the way. I think that this seldom works and it puts them under a lot of pressure.
That's a good point of view... Stretching yourself too wide can kick you back in the ass... We see those delays, late launches, the project losing its grip, and the initial interest... After that, the only way is down... :(
I salute you and your friends for forming a team. It is not an easy task. There may be so many disagreements and all but achieveing the aim is most important
Engaging with fellow Hivians will be cool. I wish you well
Creating a team is a never-ending process... People come and go, but what is important is that you leave some trail behind you, the work that is done, and the value that is added...
I don't think the bear market was the cause - it's so easy to use that as an excuse. This might sound controversial - but I think Splinterlands wasn't managed very well as well (I could go on and on about this), and it's so easy to say the bear market was the cause, when one should have watched their spending/finances better and/or saved for rainy days.
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Yeah, that's why I said in the post that "bear market is the easiest excuse"... I kind of agree about Splinterlands, but they weren't the only one who went wild with their expenses... I saw many other H-E projects that were just extracting value from HIVE and users, leaving almost nothing to their investors/gamers/community...
On the other side, it's easy to be a general AFTER the battle... 🙂 Maybe we should talk about these things more often, before it's too late...
Yeah I actually did sound out my concerns in some chat groups... But in a community where everyone is so bullish about the game, after a while, people just see me as someone blindly spreading FUD and I was the odd ball.. So I just kept the thoughts to myself or just within some closer friends within the Hive community.
That is what happens, we are made to feel like outcasts because we are not bullish and that particular game maxi!
The thing is that you are not outcasts as you can see in this comment section, and in the Liotes mission's comments...
So, it is not comfortable to be "on the other side", but that doesn't mean that you are wrong... or a hater, or a FUD-er... 😃
You are a well-rounded person Zoltan, you and Liotes are wanting to see both sides of a coin, so saying things to you and on Liotes missions for example is not uncomfortable.
But I am talking if you are involved in a project and do make anything other than bullish comments, I don't do it on Hive but I have observed, I love to lurk hehe. It is the same everywhere though.
Things are what they are. Great topic as always!
Oh... thanks for the compliment... :)
I tend to skip those people... usually, that pays off... It's impossible to be 100% bullish on anything, even on YOUR own project... As that has no sense, those people have no sense too... 😃 So, why bother? :)
Yes! You summed it up very well! :)
I am ok with hard questions. The reason I said that (half joking), was that nobody likes being reminded of painful mistakes. And some of the projects mentioned by people may have something to do with past mistakes that were exacerbated by the bear market.
Sometimes it's better to talk about things rather than think everything is well, so yeah, maybe now after a bear market is the best time to talk about disappointments.
Thanks for the mention!
Yup! We are on the same page on that... I'm always for talking about mistakes rather than pushing them under the rug... Ignoring the problems and mistakes never helps, but learning from them does!
Always thankful when people move and inspire me! Thank you!
I think you're right that many failed Hive projects were "one-man-show" projects. It's simply not possible for one person to do everything well, especially when it comes to a complex project like a blockchain-based dApp.
I also think that some projects fail because they don't have a clear vision or purpose. They may be well-developed in terms of code, but they don't solve a real problem or offer a unique value proposition.
Can't argue about what you said... Many people stated exactly those issues, so it had to be something with that...
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I love blogging very much and since last 11 months I am working on this platform everyday hardly miss a day and people here are very nice and love each other. It's done and some day if I can't blogging there is a strange anxiety.
People on HIVE are great!
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