5th and 6th day of Communicator’s ICO project and tips for your ICO
This is a continuation of my previous post here. Really, creating a ICO with no enough businness, text programming and advertising knowledges is so much challenging. In a lot of times you can think in forfeit.
I posted:
I will not search about my doubts because I can’t send tokens for the writers, so we need the answers from the community. The begin for this is a airdrop and manual bounty campaign.
But finding this kind of help is pretty hard. People are searching for projects where they can earn profits instead of wanting to help some random people. People who have a vision and likes to help projects in beginning are very rare. I don’t need to give tokens for who wrote and article that was usefull, but I can show my appreciation in other ways: liking, sharing, etc.
These articles where very usefull to improve what I know:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-to-crypto-guide-to-bitcointalk-for-icos
http://en.baptistaluz.com.br/regulating-icos-and-cryptocurrencies-in-brazil/
https://steemit.com/ico/@thepiper/brazil-issues-rules-regarding-icos-and-cryptocurrencies-forbids-current-exchanges
https://medium.com/crypto-simplified/a-simple-explanation-of-crypto-collectibles-8674c4527bd1
https://medium.com/crypto-currently/the-anatomy-of-erc721-e9db77abfc24
https://github.com/cryptocopycats/awesome-cryptocollectibles
https://hackernoon.com/ethereum-development-walkthrough-part-4-tokens-and-ercs-68645cf2f73e
I recommend they, it is worth of time reading it.
I said:
The begin for this is a airdrop and manual bounty campaign. He said to me to work on it and firstly create the whitepaper, but I can’t do it if I’m unsure about what people will think about this project and even if they exists to this!
Its a unpatient and wrong thinking. How can I know if people likes a project if they doesn’t seems attractive things (I did it) and the most important: reliable informations? As said in this post, people who sees good things about initial projects are very rare.
After forms a community, I’ll find people inside this to join the team. Then I’ll write the whitepaper, improve the website and create the pre-ICO, and after reaching the soft cap we will start developing the automatic bounty and airdrop campaigns. A partnership with BountyHive is thinked.
The best people that works in your project, is the people that are from your project’s community. But before look for a team, the projects needs to have a Team heading with infos about you, Whitepaper and Roadmap, and also a minimum presentable site, like I did:
Another important thing before advertising your project/finding a team is: FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions):
Even if you have a well explainning site, the users will have doubts and ask nearly the same things to your support team. Imagine yourself as any user reading your infos, then you can have doubts that only you can answer, then you write them in the FAQs. It will attract interest from both hunters and potential investors/team members, seeing that you is concise about your own project.
Since day 25 I saw hate agaisnt Communicator, on Telegram and in Bitcoin.com’s forum (also with bans), with people talking to me like if I where a newbie doing a bad project and called it “scam”.
Any project - in borning or in stable stage - will have hatefull people discouraging you. About the bans, never post the same things about your project in different forum sections: it is considered spam. In BitcoinForum, if you have a newbie account, care about not posting just 2 lines of text: the mods likes to ban newbie users just to show they are working (mods are paid in BitcoinTalk), without any reading. Also you will scare people if you post on chat rooms/private chats things like: “Hey, do you want to know my ICO?”. And never think about posting a link in the begin of a conversation. You could ask like I did:
Hi
I’m creating a ICO and want to know from you what are your throughts about the project.
I’M NOT SCAMMING, there are no crowdsale, I’m just sharing it for feedback to improve it.Who is interested, can message me.
But is not good advertising your ICO on Telegram, because lots of people will ignore. You should do it in BitcoinTalk. Also, don’t post your topics if they are not attractive. People will read it, think “Its not attractive”, and when reviewing the title bumping on the section, will think: “I can’t click, this is the not attractive post I saw before”, so don’t post only text for editting later. Hybrid posts (with texts and images) are the best form to attract attention on BitcoinTalk. If you is a newbie user, you can’t post images, so you can find a bounty manager with enough rank to post for you. Don’t mix so much things in the same thread. For sample, a topic that asks for a team, bounty hunters and announce your project, is better as one thread per each request/question/topic.
Yesterday I posted in Reddit that I’m about to forget Communicator, because no one replied on Reddit or in others. I started sending messages in the “Source” feature of AngelList but no matchs.
Advertising on Reddit isn’t a good approach. Don’t look for employees, but let the employees look for your hiring ad.
I had the idea to search on Google for “embed a referral system”, and now I have a basic referral system to implement to the bounties campaign. We will issue 500 COMM tokens for each referral, and this value is low because I can’t implement a automatic signup/KYC verification.
500 is not a small amount from a token if it is a good project. Lots of bounty hunters when likes a project, thinks that even 100 amount of a token is enough to buy a emerging smartphone when trading. I know that high amounts offered in airdrops/bounties are attractive, but isn’t a good approach to distribute high amounts of your token, it can miss to other contributors and let users think: “it is offering so much tokens to attract attention, so this project have no much value”.
So a basic roadmap for now is:
Create the manual bounty for initial help from community;
Post about it on BitcoinTalk;
Get a signature design;
Create the signature and avatar campaign (I already did the avatar design);
Receive questions and answers from the community and use it to improve the project;
Implement the basic embed referral system;
(Already did)
Post jobs on AngelList;
Get team members from the community;
Write the whitepaper;
Improve the site;
(This needs to be first)
Start the pre-ICO.
A bounty manager contacted me offering to manage the posts, and I added he as editor of the bounty’s spreadsheet. I’ll send the post templates via private message in BitcoinTalk for he quote the message, copy and repost. And a signature designer had offered to create the designs for 6000 Dogecoins + Communicator’s tokens, I’m not trusting as it is from a newbie account but I liked the request since we need a signature design for the avatar/signature campaign.
The updated basic roadmap is:
- Write the Whitepaper and make it available for download;
- Improve the site;
- Create the images/templates and send to bounty manager;
- Receive questions and answers from the community and use it to improve the project;
- Post jobs on AngelList;
- Get team members from the community;
- Install the airdrop referral bot on Telegram group
- Start the pre-ICO.
A programmer for who I asked a automated software to issue tokens from the bounty spreadsheet replied:
ok, sound like you’re going to struggle to launch an ICO without any funds tbh
do you realise there are literally 10’s of thousands of people with the same idea — a lot of whom have millions in funding
If it is said to every ICO creator, today we would have no ICOs in the market. I’m the first who are creating a ICO without having money?
As I’m a crazy man that started a ICO with no businness knowledge and no funding money, you can learn some tips from my writtings, so you can follow our blog.
Hope it is usefull for who is studying about this project or about creating a ICO.
