What is Hive missing and What do you want to see built for Hive?
I've shipped a lot of Hive apps for Hive, mostly fun things and some utility stuff that a minority would enjoy. Regardless, I've just been shipping what feels nonstop (there's something kinda motivating about the low token price). Pretty much everything that I build is low fee and has a burn mechanism built in where Hive/HBD and Hive Engines (where supported) have a percentage burned (usually around 10% or so).
And incase you missed it, my post on DHF funding and accountability kinda blew up: https://peakd.com/hive/@beggars/show-us-the-receipts-dhf-projects-need-transparent-expense-breakdowns and it made me think, I've been building all of this stuff and taking community feedback on to make it better, but these apps have been mostly driven by what I think would be fun or could benefit Hive.
I haven't asked the question: what do YOU want to see on Hive? Games are fun and I will continue building them, but everyone has an idea of something they would like to see built, so this post is all about soliciting ideas.
But I should probably list all of the apps I've built already before you start throwing out ideas:
- HiveWord — a Wordle clone for Hive with a free daily word and a competitive mode where you can duel someone else with staked Hive and winner takes the pot. I've had a couple of fun games against @ausbitclank (we are currently tied 1:1).
- HivePredict — parimutuel prediction markets for Hive which supports both Hive/HBD and Hive Engine token markets where people can place predictions and bet on an outcome (including auto-resolving markets for crypto and sports, etc).
- HiveLotto — self explanatory, but lotteries on the Hive blockchain. It has an automated house draw, as well as support for custom lotteries for Hive and Hive Engine custom tokens.
- HiveHeist — safe cracking game where you try guessing the combination with tiered payouts for partial matches as well as a carry over jackpot for future vaults
- HiveBounty — micro bounty platform that allows you to create bounties and people fulfill them. Once again, supports Hive and Hive Engine tokens
- Hivett — a platform for reacting to Hive blockchain events. Lets you observe and chain different events and then react to them (call webhook endpoints, etc). It was inspired by IFTTT
- HiveHand — draw 4/Uno powered by Hive
- Hive Ships — free and staked competitive battleship on the blockchain
- HiveSweeper — Minesweeper for Hive, with free and competitive staked Hive play
- HiveDice — simple dice game for Hive
- hive-rs — Rust client for the Hive blockchain (boring, but one for the Rust devs)
- Hivevoice — open source invoicing on the Hive blockchain
- Hive payments for Woocommerce — Woocommerce plugin for handling Hive payments on Wordpress stores using Woocommerce
- Beeline — fully comprehensive graphical terminal UI for Hive, with themes, visual actions for transfers, statistics and more
Whoa. That took a line time to type that all out. My hands are tired.
Anyways, back to the original point of the post. With exception of what I've built here, what is something you think Hive is missing or currently has but you believe the execution is lacking and could be done better? Ideas can include making some of my apps better too. I have taken a lot of community feedback on board while building these apps, so it's a 2 way relationship where I want the community to know this is all for them.
While many of these apps do have fees, they're often tiny little fractional amounts to the point where the payouts my posts are more profitable than the fees from the apps (which I often reinvest participating in said apps anyways, especially Hivepredict where I've got an impressive losing streak on predictions so far). So I'm not looking to get rich or profit off Hive (and lets be honest, nobody is making money here right now). I actually lose money building and running all of these apps and I don't care whatsoever, haha.
The truth is I'm just a high-functioning engineer with ADHD who continually gets excited working on new things and loves where technology is going with all of the AI assisted agents and tooling we have now. So if your idea is exciting, challenging and provides value to Hive, I want to hear it.
I also want to add onto that point that I'm not building just to scratch those ADHD hyperfocus tendencies either. I care about Hive, I've been drawn to this community since Steemit (even with all of the issues regarding manipulation, whale abuse, the eventual hard fork and more). A big part of what is fuelling me right now is trying to come up with ways to create value, to show people Hive is a great blockchain to build on, how easy it is, the benefits of 3 second block times, zero fees, the community.
It has never been a better time to build on Hive. So throw your ideas at me, no matter how silly you think they might be and I'll see what we can do.
I’d like to see a better frontend paired with a smarter algorithm so the content feels more relevant to the user experience. Maybe something similar to Twitter, with tabs for a chronological feed and a “For You” section that uses a more sophisticated recommendation system.
Right now, sections like “Hot” and “Trending” can feel a bit off, since they’re mostly determined by payouts rather than actual user interest or engagement.
A 'for you' section would be cool!
I can't think of anything right now, but let me think and I'll get back to you when I have an idea. You're a tech wizard! Good luck!
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@hallmann maybe you will write what you need in @krolestwo
Your apps are great but there is a fundamental bug in them. They can only work because of users TRUST you with their money. I don't tell it's your fault, you made them this way because there was no other way to implement application logic.
The better approach would be a real, auditable and decentralized L1 smart contract system built in the HIVE core. You publish your game logic as an SC, you point your frontend there and people (or an independent auditor) could check the code and decide if it's malicious or not.
I'm not telling that you have bad intentions, just that we could never know for sure and neither you can be sure that your VPS is invulnerable.
I get that. It's a fundamental limitation of Hive itself and as you point out, there's no L1 system in place for this kind of thing. You build on Hive, but you can't build within it. That's where chains like Ethereum have an edge, although there's no shortage of poorly written smart contracts that have led to millions in ETH being stolen or hacked.
Worth noting though, the apps I build are essentially read-only applications that work on the basis of custom JSON and transfer operations, streaming blocks and looking for specific operation types. So if someone were to somehow get into the site, they'd find a front-end and a Node.js backend with Postgres or MongoDB storing site-specific data. There's no keys, no wallets, no funds to extract (those all live on Hive). The hosting is cloud-based too, so there's no server anyone can SSH into from the outside. Nothing is perfect, but considerations are made at a design level.
Hey friend, I have an idea for a game like the slot machines in casinos, but instead of symbols, it could be HP delegations for a certain amount of time. I asked Gemini to help me refine the idea, and he gave me this suggestion:
Para garantizar la sostenibilidad sin tocar el fondo de recompensas, el juego se financia mediante un modelo de tesorería propia: las apuestas recibidas se reinvierten en Power Up para aumentar el HP del proyecto. Así, el sistema es autosustentable, genera demanda de HIVE y ofrece utilidad gamificada al ecosistema.
How about a website that lists all of your dapps as well as all other dapps on Hive, and if there is a way to automatically include new dapps that get created.
Haha yeah, that's actually a really good idea.
@louis88 is building something like that
correct :)
I believe @engrave already built this thing at hiveprojects.io
hiveprojects.io is not decentralized tbh, it's just a simple projects directory that is intended to be community driven (but not very active). It was initially created by noisy, I just revived it.
For me it's missing 2 things,
There is credit cart with hive/hbd support: https://zypto.com/blog/zypto-app/hive-integration-pay-with-hive-hbd/
But that's just to buy gift cards like bitrefill, I mean a card I can grab and use in phisical shops
No, they ofer Visa.
Oh "without going through exchanges", well ofc there must be exchanges. How could it works without it? But they ofer as i understand great automation. So you need only to refil account with crypto, and you can pay with visa everywhere.
Yeah, I meant without manually have to do all the currency changes, bank transfers etc... That zypto seems like what I'm looking for, need to check restrictions and such!
Hello there!
How are you? Its really strange that I can't login to hivett.app.
I m using google chrome in my android mobile. N can login to peakd using hivesigner in my chrome browser but whenever i try to sign in to hivett nothing happens.
Hivett always thinking that i need to sign in. I have tried multiple times but no success n no error on screen nothing appears.
N https://hivebounty.com always saying
https://x.com/HivePolish/status/2031982120453710022
I don't know if you would be upset or anything, but in this hivebounty, could I create campaigns for people to join something through my affiliate link? That seems like a good fit to me. Could I create a reward for joining and pay each of them? Or something like that? Can I do a personal promotion with hivebounty?
Could you create a gamification app? I've described this idea here.