Hope is not a Business Model

Interesting idea ! Personally, I hate that the world is moving towards an SaaS model, but I accept that's the way the world is.

From a business perspective, I've just gone through a serious process recently of trimming out those packages I don't use enough or which are no longer value for money. Too many packages have gone from £5, £10 or £20 a month two years ago to £50 or £100 or more a month now. That's an increase way above inflation, and almost always because the companies involved have been bought out by venture capital. It leaves a gap in the market for good products that are sensibly priced.

I like the plugin model that Wordpress uses, but it's something which will need careful thought and long-term planning. We dropped a WooCommerce site last year (which is effectively a Wordpress plugin), because it was getting incredibly slow, clunky and unmanageable. The key issues were plugins that stopped playing nice with each other as different teams updated each one, combined with problems handling growing volumes of historical data. With nearly 10,000 products and a stack of historical order data growing by several thousand a month, plus some real inefficiencies around email handling, it just didn't work.

So it's definitely a good idea, but needs good planning. It could create you a huge workload, though, so I'd suggest documenting everything as you do it so that it's easy to bring other talented coders onboard when you need them (not to mention that good documentation can be make or break from a user perspective). I wonder if using HBD as the native crypto, but enabling customers to pay in BTC, ETH etc that gets converted to HBD to minimise fees, would be a great core integration. Some people run from crypto, but if you can make it feel like a natural part of the system that might be less of an issue.

I'd say go for it, even though there is a lot to consider and a huge amount of marketing needed ! Just make sure you plan it out so you don't get overwhelmed, and make sure the monetisation model works for the users but also gives you enough to make it worthwhile !

Excellent reflection, @meno. I'm particularly struck by that phrase: "Hope is not a business model." So true. That blind faith that "the market will turn around" can become complacent, even self-destructive. I love that you're identifying a real niche with potential clients, not just speculation. Moving from "surviving on crypto" to building something useful (that POS system + image management) is the way forward. Best of luck with your progress.
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hope always to be in our lives

Happy Sunday everyone 🙏🏾 please read and share may the truth be with you 🙏🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

On hive it's like some people don't realise everything is documented and you can never hide from the truth 😂😂😂😂😂🍻

@acidyo @neoxian @themarkymark @hurtlocker @jacobtothe @steevc @meno @theycallmedan @shitposthive @ryivhnn @crimsonclad and friends ✨⭕✨😂😂😂

Do you really think no one sees what you do 🤔

@acidyo You took my rep away for no reason with the help of blocktrades delegation 😂 @steevc knows all about it

You and themarkymark work for blocktrades or are blocktrades 😂

You are so sad doing what you do

Promoting your 💩💩💩💩💩💩

Selfvoting your 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

You have downvoted so many people away for no reason

You really need to have a hard long look in the mirror and see what you have become

It doesn't matter if you have people who believe anything you say for a few cents or a few pennies 😂😂😂😂

Look at your buddy oldsoulnewb 😂😂😂😂😂

Everything is documented

So the choice is yours again leave me alone and bring my rep back and I will stop sharing the truth

You can call my long copy paste comments spam but it only makes you look stupid 😂

I hope you understand you are only making it worse 😂

Hive is not a game it might be a big game to you 🤔

It seems you love to game Hive don't you 😜

Everyone sees don't you think it's time to stop 🛑

You have shown all the real issues with Hive 😂 you have shown why real people couldn't invest in Hive and build on Hive 😂

You are in god mode 😂 activated 😂 you Marky Dan and others 😂😂😂😂😜

I hope you enjoyed this post or you might see in comment from 😂 which you like to call spam 😂😂😂
@jacobtothe Keep digging just remember @acidyo took my rep away with the help of blocktrades delegations and everything is documented 😂😂😂

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@jacobtothe and friends Please get help there's clearly something wrong with you 🙏🏾

I hope blocktrades pays you well enough 😂😂😂😂

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Hello everyone I hope you are all good and well today in this post is some of the evidence to prove my case

If you didn't know I've been getting downvoted for a long time on Hive

They have been trying to bully me with downvotes and words but it doesn't affect me I've been online for over 25 years

So I've dealt with people like this before it's nothing new

But what they are doing is bad Very badi joined steemit like everyone else thinking it offers freedom but I must say steemit offered much more freedom than Hive does

Everyone already knows I only post my own original content I have no need to steal anything from anyone

I've been labelled a lot of things on Hive 😂 by the biggest farmers scammers and downvoters

Actions speak louder than any words do especially when them words are coming from a compolsive liars

I will keep updating this post when I get time

https://hive.blog/hive/@ureka.stats/the-untrending-report-hive-downvote-analysis-16-09-2025-20250916181314

https://hive.blog/hivedev/@makerhacks/please-peakd-allow-me-to-completely-block-spammers-would-you-ever-vote-for-this

https://hive.blog/hive-167547/@dlmmqb/re-kgakakillerg-t34wy6

https://hive.blog/hive-170475/@acidyo/re-kgakakillerg-t32sw1

https://hive.blog/hive-167922/@themarkymark/re-kgakakillerg-t30ziu

https://hive.blog/hive/@ureka.stats/the-untrending-report-hive-downvote-analysis-29-09-2025-20250929172045

No downvotes for this racist person 🧐

https://hive.blog/hive-196387/@acidyo/re-kgakakillerg-t41yr6

https://hive.blog/dvs/@dhedge/re-kgakakillerg-t3clz3

https://hive.blog/hive-150329/@kgakakillerg/t3a8fu

https://hive.blog/musical/@steevc/re-kgakakillerg-t2kz1m this post

To all the downvoters on Hive When the downvotes stop 🛑 and my rep is back I stop sharing the truth 🙏🏾
☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 Keep calling the truth lies 😂☝🏾

So many pretend to be doing god's work but they are really working for the devil 👿

Karma will strike you and who ever supports you 🙏🏾

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To @jacobtothe and friends 😁

@crimsonclad please do your job 🙏🏾

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https://hive.blog/dev/@howo/re-kgakakillerg-szhax7

https://hive.blog/hive/@steevc/follow-friday-respect

https://hive.blog/hive-127022/@shmoogleosukami/re-kgakakillerg-t0hcxc

It's unbelievable that they downvoted this Goodbye Auntie R.I.P 🙏🏾

Comments being downvoted by blocktrades https://hive.blog/hive-170744/@kgakakillerg/t0ns3b

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Stop farming Hive https://hive.blog/burnpost/@buildawhale/re-1756307402814502169-20250827t151240z

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📊 The Untrending Report - Hive Downvote Analysis - 2025-09-07

RE: Understanding Pointers in C Programming

Please Peakd, allow me to completely block spammers (Would you ever vote for this?) thanks for exposing yourself more @makerhacks

Please go through it all instead of calling it spam 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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https://hive.blog/hive/@kgakakillerg/i-ve-been-put-on-two-blacklists

Thank you for reading and viewing this post

To all the downvoters on Hive When the downvotes stop 🛑 and my rep is back I stop sharing the truth 🙏🏾

I'm sharing the truth I know it hurts you but it is what it is 😂🍻

Consider these entries from @hive.fund's wallet—a digital fortress of staggering proportions:
"HIVE: 31,354,125.286"
"HBD: 23,325,897.167"
"Estimated Account Value: $24,860,896.64<

It's crazy that hives market cap is 36 million dollars 🤔🧐 and a account to hold 24 million dollars 💰 crazy

To everyone who is turning a blind eye to the truth karma will strike you down 🙏🏾

Stop Doing the devils work do gods work 🙏🏾

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This hits right in the feels The title itself is a gold standard truth Hope is not a business model,' but consistency and endurance definitely are. The grind in front of the screen can feel incredibly exhausting and distant sometimes, but looking at the powerful imagery you shared, every step up that rugged mountain counts. You are building, solving, and enduring every single day, and that progress is real even if the destination feels far right now. Take some well-deserved rest, brother. Your dedication is highly inspiring to the rest of the Hive community! Keep pushing forward 💪"

This is such a relatable write up!
I used to say I'M NOT QUITTING, but of course, I also need to acknowledge the depth of the bucket that shows resilience.
We're not giving up, but we're also being honest about the limits of our current situation. Happy Sunday! 😇

sounds all good. u gotta do what u think is best for u.. and for sure HBD is awesome, so there's that.. ;)

https://x.com/i/status/2061131794053996673
#hive #posh

Amazing idea! It’s a fresh vision that deserves to be developed further I truly hope you achieve great success with your creativity

I completely agree with you that just wishing for success doesn't work at all. We need a real practical plan to survive in real life. In the tech and crypto world relying on hype or waiting for luck will eventually run a project into the ground (can't be skied at all).

Instead of just hoping people will show up we have to actively build good features and to solve real problems also should look to make a sustainable strategy. True success comes from hard work and smart execution not just good intentions needed for that...

I think that hope basically is based on the fact that costumers will willingly come to your store-solution-app and use it, making you rich in the process. However I better business model is to go out and get the costumers into using your app and finding if its really amount to all that blam. So here is another idea, why not Ad your app and monitor the incoming traffic and constantly improve it until you get to the traffic you want to see through.
Just like any neuromarketing strategy, appeal to their feelings, hopes and desires, or even fears, and see if you are being efficient. There are so many Hive narratives that I heard brought up to the front by people like theycallmedan however none of these ever really materialize into a core message to get people into Hive. So why not do it individually toward your app, maybe, and maybe maybe.... it works.
I recommend you to check out my 3Speak Hive Marketing posts on sales, marketing, and business to get some ideas.