We have asked out community to try out some websites. The idea was for them to sign up to these websites through out referral link and be active for a week. We wanted to see how much people were able to earn and how much it would bring to the project through referral commissions.
The websites that we asked people to sign up with:
Cointiply
Viefaucet
Firefaucet
Freebitcoin
In a second mission, we have asked about their feed-back. We asked several questions regarding the time invested, the feeling or the earnings.
The feed-back of the community
Of the 4 websites that we asked people to join, there wasn't one where people were all happy about. There were issues regarding completing the captcha on one site, there were problems about a website that is not available in all countries. Then there were issues with pop up's and spam.
In general, the feeling was that these websites were a waste of time. I did the same exercise than the community and unfortunately, I kind of agree with their opinion. Most of the people earned less than 1 $ in a week and very few earned more than 0.10 $. I concentrated on doing surveys on the website Viefaucet and I managed to earn around 6$ from it. I probably earn that much because I live in Switzerland and because of that my surveys reward much better than in other countries.
Return for the community
By signing up to these websites over our referral link, people were generating referral commissions for Liotes. With all 4 platforms combined, we earned about 0.9 $ referral commissions. Considering all the efforts put into this trial, this seems pretty low.
Together with the referral commissions, I've decided to put all my earnings that I generated this week into the pot that will finance the diesel pool rewards of LEN:LENM. I manged today to withdraw 40 Doge from Viefaucet that were then swapped for hive, and we could power up 36.35 Hive on the @liotes.learn account. This hive power is delegated to the @liotes.voter account and it will generate daily LEN dividends that will be used at a later stage to fund the reward pool linked to the diesel pool LEN:LENM.
Conclusion
My idea was to create a course that would onboard people to hive by first promoting the websites that were tested here by the community. They would generate some income that they would then transfer to hive, power up and then delegate to liotes. It would create several passive income streams for them. At the same time, I hoped that the referral commissions of these websites would provide an income for Liotes that would fill the account liotes.learn. It would bring money from outside to hive and to liotes.
Now, after a week and the trial made by the community, I'm not so sure that this project is worth pursuing as such. The income generated from these websites is simply not interesting enough and there are many problems linked to them. Do we really want to promote these programs and let the onboarding process be centered around them? There are more open questions now that we will require some time to be answered.
A big thanks to the community
We are aware that we asked quite a lot from our community and we are very grateful for their help and the time that they dedicated. If this experience was rather disappointing it's definitely not because of the community but because of the rewards that can be generated over these programs and the issues that came with them. Hopefully, we will find a better way to promote Liotes that will profit all the stakeholders of the project.
P.S: 50% of the author rewards of this post will go into the liotes.learn pot.
Liotes
A project run by @ph1102 and @achim03
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