The no brainier of premium.
One of the powerful features that is being promoted and use this year has to be the threadcast, a threadcast on inleo.io allows you to start a live discussing with other people on the platform, I have joined threadcast over the past months about euro2024 and lion's dents and at least on AMA. It is one of the most "normal" online interaction feeling I got because you can actually started a conversation with other and during the time frame they will probably answer you
Threadcast are capturing attention for a moment.
On threadcast people are focused on the topic at hand, I found it that it work best for me when it is linked to a live real even happening at the same time, either on TV or on the web. Since the time is defined you have more chance of having the attention of users focused on one thing, maybe two if you count them replying to all notification at the same time which is what I try to do to keep people engaging with me.
Premium is promoting you
This post is originating from me listening to the second half of the recent AMA which I didn't finish yesterday. TI am focusing on the time frame from 50 mins in to 60 mins. Something that stroke me is some extra perks from inleo premium that are useful for auto promoting you on the platform, for active users it is a no brainer and should be for itself via direct upvote from leo.voter and the exposition you get to other members and specifically other premium members that might have more incentive to upvote you because you are part of it and directly financing the futur of the platform.
Apparently the purple light around your username when you are in a threadcast is only for premium users, another important perk is that your threadcast (if you are the author) will appear on top of the feed which is an important competitive advantage, you have more visibility which can translate to more activity.
It is like renting a small shop at a mall and paying a bit extra to be near the entrances where you know everyone entering the place have a chance to see you even if they don't buy, it allow new shops without the reputation yet to acquire potential new customers, in this case reader, curators, your audience.
Khal talked about a freemium model where most basic features are available to all users without paying but a few perks that make the experience easier/more rewarding is for premium users. The goal is still to get those 1000 premium users and increase the monthly active users numbers, growth is key.
LEOShort are coming
Initially limited to 60 seconds, leoshorts will be posted on 3Speaks which is nice seeing projects using other Hive stacks for their content, having more stuff onchain is important.
I don't now if I will actually use this feature for content creating, I never got around into filming videos, I am still open minded and we will see how it work.
I will definitely be upvoting people that will be doing the work of creating and publishing leoshorts on the platform, it is great that others enjoy doing it. We all have different ways of expressing ourselves.
if you have twitter / x you can view the full recording at https://x.com/i/spaces/1DXxydwQVyRJM
LEO AI and the 5 years of LEO
Major milestones were projects blank and now it will be LEO AI.
Project blank which was in the funnel for a long time and people were not confident that it would be realease actually did and got re branded to what we now today as the inleo.io interface and it's core featuire which threads are. Threads are the best way in my opinion for short form content creationg on the HIVE blockchain and the only real way to get rewards for it, on tradional HIVE plateform comments didn't have the same fell of live conversation for most of them and rewarding comments was a bit frowned upon, the leo ecosystem is slwoly changing that and I think users are enjoying it.
For new arrivals on Hive you probably have a bit more chance to build your audience around her by increasing your activity on thread, creating new ones and replying to others that trying to create 1-2 long form content every now and then. Thread provides you the ability to be here everyday with less effort then spending hours of research and writing on a long post.
The best is that this business model has been tested with twitter, their is a market of this type of online interacting, the ability to link it to transparent economic activity on chain is a killer feature for me on its own. We are just missing the network effect and users, I believe organic grow we a bit of extra marketing at the right time (start of bull run) will be a key for success.
I believe that one day we will be looking back when we had only a few hundreds view on the most visible threads/posts.
inleo.io has potential and is not going away, it is built with a great infrastructure, with dedicated users like you, it can only go up.
PS: I really like those AI generated image from gpt and Dall-E, I think it is inspiring. If you haven't tried it I think it is a great way to make your content a bit more appealing. It is not all automated you have to practice a bit to get the right prompt and the final decision of using this or this image is up to you. I think Ai will bring a way for people to express a creative part of them self differently. Is it good, is it bad, I guess only time with tell but at least it is a trend and I am happy to be part of it and enjoying the birth of this tech.
Walter