So I joined three websites: Cointiply (Gabriel), Viefaucet (grantee), and Fire Faucet (grantee). All of them have much worse benefits/time spent than Hive. Proof of brain gets more rewards, especially in posts. But viefaucet was the one that I enjoined more, since cointiply for some reason the faucet keeps saying that was disabled for me, and there was just a few PTC. Fire faucet, the faucet needs your browser to be opened to keep using it. Viefaucet at least I could get a bit more than 0.10$ in a week , I was using it for just 15 min a day, running some faucets and clicking in the PTCs that could give more than 40 coins a time. With your post of Monday, I decided also to speed a bit and go to the links which generate a bit more more, so I spent my Monday night a bit more just to achieve faster the 10k coins threshold. But doing in my speed I think that I can do at least 1000 coins a day without burning much free time.
Maybe people get a bit disappointed with the slowness of getting money in these websites compared to Hive rewards, I saw some comments and people saying that they get a couple of cents faster in Hive. In my case, since I use usually during the time that I don't interact with Hive (since I prefer mostly doing that in front a computer, since writing texts is better on a PC), I see as an addition to what I do in Hive, so it is somehow beneficial. I am not one of those who farm comments, going to whales that give upvotes, comment in posts with comment rewarder activated etc.
There was an idea that died a while ago...a user created a project where we needed to use the links with his referral (similar to what we did with liotes). The project was named earn and had a token with this name. But he created a tokenomics for his token where we received weekly drops of the token depending of the amount of usage of each link, and also some part of generating the tokens was funding a curation account which was promoting curation. Depending of the amount of token we were receiving some Hive drips. The project died because only two people were doing that lol. Maybe generating some rewards in the blockchain while we are using the links creates more engagement on that.