My first experience using the MinnowBooster bot was a complete success!

The MinnowBooster bot @minnowbooster is a vote bot much like @randowhale, with one major difference. It gives you a predicible upvote return in proportion to your spending.

From my recent experience working with it today I can confirm that it works exactly as advertised in regard to it's ability to upvote your posts and it actually gives you a higher return than the amount spent.

How does MinnowBooster work for Upvotes?

According to documentation found in an article released by @minnowbooster

"To request upvotes from the @minnowbooster bot just send SBD (at least 0.1 SBD) to @minnowbooster and receive an upvote worth up to 5 times what you paid. Add the post or comment url as memo.

Please check the bot's voting power at https://steemd.com/@minnowbooster because the bot's AI autoregulates its Voting Power to ensure the bot does not get drained.

At 100% voting power the bot will give your nominated URL an upvote worth 5 times what you paid in, with the received vote value decreasing proportionately as VP decreases, ie 80% VP yields 4 times and 60% VP 3 times, right down to breakeven at 20% VP and a loss if you pay in when the bot has less than 20% VP. (These are gross percentage values, please take into account that on Steem 25% of the post value goes to the curators, in which case the NETT breakeven is actually at 26.67% VP)"

Does it actually work?

Yes it does and I'm completely confident in recommending it as I've just tested the process today and can confirm it performs wonderfully and exactly as advertised. Let me walk you through my experience.

The MinnowBooster Upvote Process

Step One

The first thing I did was go to my blog page and find an article that I would like to have upvoted by MinnowBooster. I picked a recent article I had written about travel in Thailand.

As you can see this is an article that currently had an upvote value of $0.43 based on the votes it had already received.

I clicked on this article and copied the link url for the post to be pasted in the memo section when I was ready to make my payment of SBD to MinnowBooster.

Step Two

Next, I went to my wallet and found my SBD balance. I clicked on the arrow and selected the transfer option. I was presented with this screen:

I didn't have much to send at the time because normally I like to use most of my SBD for powering up. I was able to send a small payment to MinnowBooster in the amount of 1.072 SBD.

The Final Step

The last part was the hardest.... I had to wait to receive my upvote. Amazingly by the time I had refreshed my screen, I had been upvoted by MinnowBooster!

Remember the original balance of upvotes was $0.43 and now I had a new balance of $2.01. This was almost 50% more than I had sent the MinnowBooster bot! Now just imagine if I had send it $10 worth of SBD. That would be worth your time wouldn't it? What about $100 of SBD?

Guess what, that's not all... After receiving the vote payment I received a bonus prize as well. Get this, each upvote comes with an amazing upgoat!

Who doesn't love an upgoat right??

Final Thoughts

Based on the outcome I have received, I will definitely be using MinnowBooster again. In addition there are several other useful things MinnowBooster can do which I will discuss in future articles.