Bedeho Mender awesome writeup ! Not only do ether apps look to have no value, they are overly complex. Even the ethereum project itself is so technically complex, its like they are building a propulsion rocket to go from new york to chicago.

Lighthouse project was very interesting. I even download it to try out but was too complex. https://bitcoinstarter.com/ project is more likely to succeed. While I think the proposition of not paying kickstarter for crowfunding is lucrative. The reason why it failed would be a desktop application and absence of social worth of a project. Desktop applications are 90’s and crowdfunding relies on social proof that others have donated / interested in the project.