We're building a DApp for Steemit Open Mic, a community of live musicians on Steemit that has been running for 114 weeks now. @prc from DSound is helping us build it.

I'm told Open Mic is the longest running weekly contest on the platform. Don't know if that's true or not but that's what people say. Lots of other contests have copied almost exactly what we did with Open Mic. Currently, Open Mic is sponsored by some top witnesses. My goal is to create the DApp and advertise it to musicians and sponsors outside of Steemit to bring in more users and more investment to Steem.

I'm also working on a new site that will make it easier for people to find active communities on the blockchain based on topics they are interested in. It will make it easier to sort through posts compared to a long feed of mixed topics like we have now. The goal is to get people involved with active communities around topics they are interested in sooner after signing up, keeping them involved before they lose focus and interest. Right now we have a problem with retaining people in part because they get lost in the mix before finding support from those with common interests. I'm building a site to help retain them by finding commonality with others on the platform.