Hey everyone, I got motivated a few months ago and announced this contest, which got some prize support. I even reminded everybody about a month later in this post.
Some people have even contacted me to see if I would publish the results, and so today is the day you all get to see the results. Many comments informed me they were excited about the contest so let's look at the entrants:
Entry 1: @ecoinstant / ARCHON : https://peakd.com/hive-177956/@ecoinstant/archon-project-as-it-stands
Entry 2: @improv / Punday Monday : https://peakd.com/lifecycle/@improv/how-is-the-punday-monday-project-providing-value
Results:
So in the first month of the contest, I submitted the only entry, and after the reminder post, we did get another, from @improv.
I had considered including sponsors as judges, but I will let them be the judges of their own prizes. To me it seems pretty clear cut, I am the winner and @improv takes second place. Feel free to opine about my judgement in the comments below.
If @enginewitty and @thatgermandude want to distribute prizes (or not) they can select between @archon-gov and @improv as they see fit, for my part I am happy enough winning my own dCity prize.
Participation
So obviously this was a failure by some definitions, even though we managed to get quite an exciting prize pool together. I am not sure what this can teach us about lifecycles or maybe about HIVE itself, but if you wonder why people more and more ignore random positive comments, this is why. Engagement means basically nothing on HIVE, although a case could be made that its "the bear market's" fault.
I hope we got some people to think about projects within a lifecycle framework at least, that is valuable. I for sure learned a lesson about lifecycle, as what was once such a prominent feature of this blockchain community - social contests - now seems completely detached from where HIVE is headed.
But in a certain extent this only confirms where my conclusions have been heading - Projects should focus on themselves over whatever ecosystem, and the best marketing for an ecosystem is not words or cars or advertising, but projects actually using them.
I look forward to your useless platitudes (and hopefully some interesting comments) down below.
