Hi NXTers. As some of you know since November I've been working on LazyTweeps. My goal is to build an efficient social media tool catered for promotion enthusiasts inside our community and outside of it. Also as some of you know I've been doing marketing for Pangea/SN since 2014 and my goal launching LazyTweeps is to launch a independent business that could contribute to marketing not only those ventures, but the NXT & crypto ecosystem as a whole without the business going out of it's way of it's main purpose which is to make money. My involvement in Pangea is as marketing lead, and I will have no difficulty fulfilling this obligation whilst maintaining LazyTweeps.
As you can tell I’ve been a marketeer without a finished product to market for some time now, and with the AE & NXT in decline I’ve been putting off launching my venture for the past two months but it appears to me that NXT is at a stage where we need to introduce new users to the ecosystem or fade off completely, and LazyTweeps is at a stage where it needs funding to create what it aims to be, so I feel silly worrying if my venture will be funded or not when the ecosystem we've built for the past +2 years could collapse so without sounding cheesy (because I am seeking funding here) I hope to bring a spark into the AE and break this bearish attitude market possess.
I'm selling 30% of my business under these terms:
Issued assets 1M
IPO per asset 10% at 10NXT, 10% at 11 NXT, 10% at 12 NXT. BTC is accepted manually at the same rates, just PM.
Maximum assets put up for sale 30% at IPO
100% of revenues distributed to shareholders
Dividends begin on a monthly schedule as soon as the platform is monetized.
Escrow will be set up with Damelon - 40% of the shares will be sent to Damelon and released to LazyTweeps upon reaching 1000 monthly subscribers (or min $6k/mo rev) or 25 NXT per LazyTweeps. Shares receive dividends while escrowed.
17.5% will be held in reserve for promotions, bounties, development and aligning potential partnership interests.
12.5% of LazyTweeps was sold 5 months ago up until now at 7 NXT each, mainly to superNET which secured a partnership between the two. Except for seed investment to bring a v1 to life, SN secured a marketing function where users can chose to end their automated direct messages with @supernetorg (or @lazytweeps/@nxtcommunity) which will be a requirement for freemium users to utilize the function.
My goal with going after partnerships and pre-IPO investors was simply that I wanted to launch on the AE with an established business with a clear way of monetization that people could understand and a service people could already use for the benefit of themselves and NXT. I managed to meet half my goal - and as a result come half way and whilst development has been seriously hampered with the lack of funds it demonstrates the shell of what LazyTweeps can be.
LazyTweeps will focus primarily on BTC payments, with 5% discount on NXT payments, so users who wish to benefit can buy NXT and then the service. This is how I hope to contribute to the NXT ecosystem from a monetary viewpoint without building something blockchain based and hope to set a industry standard for AE businesses. It’s obvious to me that we can’t just be trading coins back and fourth with one another to reach mass adoption, rather we as a currency must offer something appealing other currencies do not (like cheaper prices to make up for the illiquidity and learning curve) otherwise non-tech people will never bother.
LazyTweeps have several potential funnels for revenues but the only thing set in stone will be subscriptions. Any revenue that the platform generates from subscriptions will be distributed to shareholders, and anything further developed on the same site would also be distributed to shareholders e.g Instagram equivalent to LT. Any revenue from potential licensing would also be distributed to shareholders.
LazyTweeps has many competitors including Crowdfireapp.com and Tweepi.com, both of those examples exceeds a million users and there are many other similar platforms for both Twitter and Instagram that all do similar things: making it easier to grow and manage your social medias. They all use similar techniques to achieve this because Twitter ToS puts the ability to innovate in a confined area.
I don’t see similar services as competitors, but as something to strive after and offering a useful service on a platform of some 325M+ users, let the best marketeers win.
LazyTweeps platform currently includes:
Target Following (search for who’s followers you wish to follow, then easily follow them.)
Automated DMs (send an automated DM when someone you follow, follows you back.)
Uncool Following (allows you to sort who doesn’t follow you back, and unfollow them.)
First Followings (allows you to sort from the first you followed to last, and unfollow them.)
Linked accounts (allows you to easily add accounts and switch between them without logging in and out.)
Flexible roadmap on how it will be developed.
Small improvements to existing functions
A NXT themed landing page, where users sign in the first-time and type in their mail, and follow LazyTweeps Twitter account.
Remake the UI from scratch. Remember the current solution is temporary and crappy, only made to display the back-end features the platform currently has.
Adding the option of ending automated direct messages with @supernetorg as well as @nxtcommunity
Implement tweet widget with a pre-set message of your weekly twitter stats. This message can be removed, and you can tweet whatever you like on the platform.
Implement variations of follow/unfollow list e.g sort by things like ‘who last unfollowed you’.
A subscription page, and varying subscription levels with varying access to features (this is where monetization comes in to play.)
Estimated time: 2-4 months.
Additional roadmap notes:
FIAT integration
User requested features - maybe, if they’re good.
Research and development of analytic Twitter tools on the platform
Research and development of additional social media tools - with prioritization on Facebook and Instagram
Rough estimates on how funding will be spent.
Flexible salary at $1.5k-3k/month for full-time marketing, business developing and project management.
Back-end $4-6k, milestone based
UI $2-4k, will find offer accordingly
New features added to initial roadmap, maintenance work, small jobs $2-4k
Unexpected costs: $2k
Any surplus: Marketing!
Feedback is welcome but I will have the final say in which direction the business goes since I seek to do what is best to maximize profits so in the end anyone investing will need to have faith that I know my marketing and my business. Same goes for the development roadmap, as it is set up now I introduce monetization when I believe people will pay to use it, before that occurs quality must be achieved on all bases, and before that I find it more beneficial to allow people to test and use the platform to it's full extent.
By using the AE I am not only seeking capital to take my venture to the next level but I am also looking for more users and feedback on the business plan, features they wish to see, or any other suggestion as I am flexible and wish to extend this platform beyond the NXT community into crypto as a whole. A channel has been set up at nxtchat.slack.com called #lazytweeps, everyone is welcome to join, this'll be the place for LazyTweeps discussions if not on forums. I can also be reached on SN slack.
The platform is up and ready for use at lazytweeps.com, but it should be viewed as in beta, and not as the final product.
LazyTweeps related links -
http://www.lazytweeps.comhttps://nxtportal.org/assets/16353645177223876977https://www.mynxt.info/asset/16353645177223876977https://www.twitter.com/lazytweeps