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adam

Everything sounds great so far, but how is this thing actually going to work? I'm really interested in the user/creator experience.

What a great question. Let me share how I see it. These images are courtesy of Marcin who is developing our MVP iPhone app.  
For the user: I get in my car, pull up the LTB app on my phone. On the homepage I see all the most recent shows available for streaming (should we allow downloads?)


 Lots of LTB in that list, where are the other shows? Ah! each listener gets to choose which shows they listen to on the LTB network, and only sees new episodes of the shows they want to see. These mechanisms for individual users curating their own version of LTB carry over to the new web property as well.
 

 
In a later version, content that has been turned off but has an episode or article that is really more successful or popular than usual will bleed through onto the lists of people who have turned it off, or otherwise attract their attention to the fact that there is probably useful content available on a feed they have disabled. I would like to gamify this and make it so there are known thresholds that trigger a piece of content being automatically pushed to the whole network if it outperforms its average by a substantial margin.
 

 
So these screens are from the iphone version which won't include wallet functionality, but basically you'll put your Bitcoin address into settings on your app, and every "incentivized action" you do earns you points. Incentivized actions are things like tipping, commenting, sharing, etc. 
 Every day or however long the audience "mining" period lasts, all the incentivized actions are added up among all the bitcoin addresses (which represent individual users), and the amount of funds distributed each day to the audience is sent to those addresses according to how much they contributed relative to everyone else. 
From the user perspective, you just interact with the LTB network through those normal ways, and the more you do the larger your share of the daily or weekly LTBcoins being distributed are. If you are active on a day when few people are active, it could be very profitable, but everybody gets paid according to their contribution over the same period of time. 
Because everybody gets LTBcoins on a regular basis just for interacting, there's no problem giving them away or tipping them like people do with Doge, except our currency is aggressively deflationary instead of continuously inflationary like Doge. 
The "generosity" period will last the first year or two, then we'l have a more mature bitcoin-like ecosystem.

For users who want more LTBcoin because they want to speculate, or sponsor, or whatever there will be both the Decentralized Exchange and normal markets like Cryptsy to buy and sell.

Ask me more good questions so I am forced to explain myself.

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  • Matt

    Ok wow that's awesome this is sounds great so far. So glad to know this is going the mobile direction, web is dying fast.

    I love the idea of the pushing content to the entire network via gamification, but it you want to gamify it needs to have a good social core.

    What about a RT feature? I think if you really want to get 2.0 with this the user experience should be social. The bitcoin community doesn't have a great mobile social platform outside of twitter this could be connected to twitter and facebook so users can still push content to other networks, but given the amount of exclusive content that will be generated on LTB it would make sense for it to have its own social platform, which will help the network as whole generate great content. It would really allow the inside network to be in the know before other networks, making LTB more valuable to users.

    Not to mention it would help users to generate LTBcoins by a variety of avenues you could implement.

    What about easter eggs inside the app that are like little treasure chests? We could add elements into shows that lead them to secrets buried inside the app, so users are more intrigued to listen to content in search of clues. Not to mention they'll have to be paying attention.

    I'm kinda envisioning a soundcloud type system with more social elements.

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  • Matt

    mjdecour said: Ok wow that's awesome this is sounds great so far. So glad to know this is going the mobile direction, web is dying fast.

    I love the idea of the pushing content to the entire network via gamification, but it you want to gamify it needs to have a good social core.

    What about a RT feature? I think if you really want to get 2.0 with this the user experience should be social. The bitcoin community doesn't have a great mobile social platform outside of twitter this could be connected to twitter and facebook so users can still push content to other networks, but given the amount of exclusive content that will be generated on LTB it would make sense for it to have its own social platform, which will help the network as whole generate great content. It would really allow the inside network to be in the know before other networks, making LTB more valuable to users.

    Not to mention it would help users to generate LTBcoins by a variety of avenues you could implement.

    What about easter eggs inside the app that are like little treasure chests? We could add elements into shows that lead them to secrets buried inside the app, so users are more intrigued to listen to content in search of clues. Not to mention they'll have to be paying attention.

    I'm kinda envisioning a soundcloud type system with more social elements.

    Formatting on that post messed up after editing for some reason.

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  • adam

    Yes to having an awesome app and using LTB rewards to incentivize exploration, but we're not abandoning the web - this is just in addition to our new web platform.
    Nick has been working on the backend for the last month+, I'm supposed to get with Texture to work on the visual design pretty much ASAP and that should be ready to go sooner rather than later.
    Also, I was approached by a competitor of soundclouds recently and I told them "If you guys can build everything I want for tipping and affiliate compensation into your widget, we'll swap our whole network" - They took a week to think about it, wrote me back a few days ago that they're in.  So that is AWESOME.

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  • Matt

    Adam said: Yes to having an awesome app and using LTB rewards to incentivize exploration, but we're not abandoning the web - this is just in addition to our new web platform.
    Nick has been working on the backend for the last month+, I'm supposed to get with Texture to work on the visual design pretty much ASAP and that should be ready to go sooner rather than later.
    Also, I was approached by a competitor of soundclouds recently and I told them "If you guys can build everything I want for tipping and affiliate compensation into your widget, we'll swap our whole network" - They took a week to think about it, wrote me back a few days ago that they're in.  So that is AWESOME.

    Wow... thats even more awesome!
    Ok this might be down the road, but what about voice messaging system?  Where users could send voice memos back and forth and even just publish publicly, could have a snapchat type addition as well? I know you can do this with soundcloud, but its not its purpose it feels more like a consuming platform. I think the community really wants to hear what everyone is talking about. People could easily record and publish meetups, conversations to the entire network, making the whole community much more inter-twined.
    And yes don't ditch web completely, but building an app is going to push the network much much further, I didn't believe it until 2012.
    Do you need help throwing together some wireframes? checkout https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/ <- awesome
    Additional thoughts:-Time sensitive content? (Content can't be shared outside of network for a certain period of time)-Time destroyed content? (Similar to snapchat - can be viewed once then destroyed)-Collaborative content? (Content is labeled and can be used for collaboration on shows - interviews, solos, videos, pictures, etc.)
    Uh... still churning

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  • adam

    I think first comes the content network (what we're doing now) then the distribution network (Adam Perlow is working on this), then once you have both you add the app layer on top of that where you can do chat, live p2p broadcasts etc. 
    Man, I don't even know how to define some of this stuff.   

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  • rubenalexander

    It would be nice to allow the user to request a topic from a list of topics to guide a portion of future posts and shows. You could reward people with their topic is selected and compensate by paying content creators a little less for that show/post.
    This looks great, Adam!


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    rubenalexander said: It would be nice to allow the user to request a topic from a list of topics to guide a portion of future posts and shows. You could reward people with their topic is selected and compensate by paying content creators a little less for that show/post.
    This looks great, Adam!


    Ruben, what do you think about an LTBcoin imbued version of helpmewrite.co where somebody proposes an idea, people send LTBcoin to it and when somebody writes about it in a way that gets published the writer gets the bounty and the idea poster gets a 10% cut or something?

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  • rubenalexander

    Yes that looks and sounds good.

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  • Matt

    Adam said:

    rubenalexander said: It would be nice to allow the user to request a topic from a list of topics to guide a portion of future posts and shows. You could reward people with their topic is selected and compensate by paying content creators a little less for that show/post.
    This looks great, Adam!


    Ruben, what do you think about an LTBcoin imbued version of helpmewrite.co where somebody proposes an idea, people send LTBcoin to it and when somebody writes about it in a way that gets published the writer gets the bounty and the idea poster gets a 10% cut or something?

    Sounds great :)

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  • adam

    I'm going to post this as a project someone should do tomorrow, if someone wants to beat me to it I'll consider it a favor.

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