Glad I got you thinking on this stuff. That was my broad goal for all who saw my posts anyway.

Adsense done by a professional marketing bureau have an immense impact. At least that's what the marketing bureau told me. But the few users we have at the moment are almost all gotten from me reaching out to them and asking them to try the app.

I have been having long hypothetical conversations with @littlescribe too about paid advertising like google ads or facebook ads or others, (she likes the idea) and my own experience, which is that those work if well targeted but can be expensive and hit or miss on broad targets, and my general inclination from historical experience is that everybody is mostly here because of peer to peer word of mouth anyway.

Precisely like you said in the statement I quoted from you above. Hence my posts about how we could return to the enthusiasm that propelled everyone to talk about "steem" then, and would be "hive" now to their friends, family and social networks, without anybody really breaking a sweat or spending a dime of any of their own, pool, or community money.

Keep thinking and doing. I like the stuff you're heading for here!