Are we ready to start making getting a job easier with Steemit? Claim my 2000 Steem prize at to make the first functional version of steemj.com which I hope will be an online freelancing platform that is 10 times better than Upwork and Fiverr which are both very good!
Complete picture in 5 bullet points for speed readers!
- OPPORTUNITY! Upwork is currently the world's largest online freelancing marketplace where over $1 billion dollars in jobs are posted annually by five million clients. Getting a job and making good money on Upwork is challenging because there are over 12 million freelancers competing for 3 million jobs with fees beginning at over 20% of what the client pays versus what the freelancer receives. While almost no one is crazy enough to start a new freelancing website because of the initial problem of getting user signups and capital, on Steemit we can literally make one with the existing users where no one pays transaction fees and all the work we do posting serves as our resume!
- DEVELOPMENT! Will we work together to combine Steemit and SteemD into profiles on SteemJ where every Steemit user's profile and data from SteemD would be available immediately for hire and hiring because this would add massive value to our entire community? To make getting started as easy as possible, for this prize I am simply asking to use the existing data and make it into a functional interface! Future projects posted on SteemJ which also will naturally be visible on Steemit will continue providing additional rewards for updates and adding new features!
- STEEMJ.COM: Using the posting key to sign in, we should be able to post new jobs, upvote jobs, and comment on jobs to apply. Each Steemit.com profile should have a matching Steemj.com profile link featuring the account value, basic profile info, listing of blog and job posts, and total STEEMJ payments tracked via memos. On the homepage, we should see a basic definition of STEEMJ as a marketplace for freelancers built on top of Steemit with user numbers from the distribution, new job posts, active freelancers, and videos explaining how to use STEEMJ from YouTube.
- PRIZE: Make a functional server with STEEMJ live on it which is validated as functional by the community and secure by at least 5 top 100 Steem Witnesses and I will pay everyone participating out the total prize of 2000 Steem by powering down my account for one week or making a transfer from Bittrex.
- GROWTH: Whoever claims the prize successfully also will receive first access to each new job for developing and upgrading steemj.com! For example, the next job might be 1000 Steem to add private messaging. Once we have a functional version of STEEMJ I will then begin my efforts to bring freelancers and clients to sign up for Steemit to start using the freelancing marketplace! When we combine all of the value we currently have with what we can do with STEEMJ, I hope that this will continue to provide greater rewards and opportunities for every new user that signs up!
- LIMITATIONS! While STEEMJ offers huge potential, the one huge downside is the requirement for users to get involved with cryptocurrencies. I think as digital money starts to reach mass adoption, this will become less of a limitation and in the present will provide a marketplace for those with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Steem, SBD, or any altcoin to successfully spend their earnings on Steemit!
Will you read more at https://steemit.com/@jerrybanfield/ on the announcement post because that is where I am planning to respond to comments and payout the prize? Thank you for reading this and I hope it is helpful for you today!