Hive is a great blockchain and offers a lot of opportunities. If you have an idea, you can realize it pretty quickly if you know how to. That's how most projects are born on this blockchain. Somebody has an idea and simply realizes it. This is also the base for most of the problems.
In most cases apps on hive are run by one or a few people
First of all, the creator of the project probably finances his idea by himself and works more or less without remuneration. He won't employ other people because he doesn't want to generate more costs. This means that he often does everything, the coding, the ui, the marketing, the support and all the other things that go along by himself. In the best case, the project is built around a little team but again a lot of the things that are done are unpaid time investments.
Then the project comes out and only in few cases the hive world learns about it. Most of the time, these people are maybe good developers but they lack social or marketing skills. There are some projects that go on for a couple of years but most of them kind of die a couple of months later.
I have been on this blockchain for a long time and I have seen so many apps, games or others come and go. The problem is that most of these projects might be nice as such but they are often not finished products. The sides of the project that is maybe less dear to the guy running the show, is often neglected.
What we end up with is a lot of half finished and not long living apps and games. Of course, there are some exceptions but the big majority falls into this category.
Need for profitability
The biggest problem in my opinion is that the projects that are created don't have the ambition to make a profit. They are often not financially oriented and therefore sooner or later, they run out of funds. People are not willing to work ages for free or they simply can't.
For apps to succeed and grow, they need to be profit oriented in my opinion. If they generate a revenue, they can pay for development and labor work. They can finish their project and takle with all the aspects of the app.
The problem with the DHF
At the moment, the only solid way of financing a project on hive is to get payments from the DHF. Once these payments are secured, these projects then face the problem that they start to depend on these payments to continue their service. It's therefore not really surprising that a lot of people are not so happy with how the dhf funds are used. They more or less pay for existing services and there is not much available for new stuff.
Using the DHF as an investment partner
I think that the money of the DHF should be used in a way so that all contributions others than for the core development of the chain need to be returned sooner or later. If a project wants support, it has to submit not only a proposal but a business plan how it plans to generate a return and how it plans to pay back the loan from the DHF. Based on the credibility of the project idea and the project owners, people could then vote for the proposals.
It's actually the projects that generate a profit that bring most to the chain. Splinterlands is a very good example for that. It has a financial incentive to bring new people to the chain. They want to get paying customers that buy their stuff. This means new account and incoming money which both are what hive needs...
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