It is our pleasure to announce the begining of our closed beta program for our "Steemit Post Scheduler" application.
About The Project:
Ladder is a collaborative effort between @contentjunkie, @rgeddes, and a few outside consultants - we can be found on the web at ladder.net.
@rgeddes and @contentjunkie have been working on collaborative projects together dating back as far as the early 90s. Previous projects include everything from government websites, data management, analytics, internet advertising, and IT consulting.
Short Term Goals:
We collectively decided to tackle the back-end "power-user" tools before launching our UI. We currently have a functioning post scheduling system. What this allows a user to do is compose a post in our Markdown editor, then select a time and date to have the post setup. This can be useful for spacing out content - or timing a post for your audience. Our app will free you from having to hit the "post" button. We will have your post sent at the exact date and time you specify!
We are hoping to have 25 users in the closed beta - and we are aiming to open the system up to everyone by the end of the year.
Long Term Goals:
Before this project we were working on various curation tools. The next feature we release will be an intelligent voter. We are going to make voting your favorite users as easy as possible - with some added intelligence. For example - you might want to vote on all of your friends posts - but if they contain swear words you dont want to vote. Or lets say you only want to vote for you friend if they mention the "blue jays". This is all possibe. We also have hopes to include @Steemsports and @Chessmasters right into the platform - hopefully in the initial release of the voting app.
A front-end UI is our long term project. Displaying Steem content in a way thats different from the reddit style is not incrediably difficult - displaying it in a more meaningful way is - which is why this part of the project will likely take us into mid next year.
Ladder Outside Of Steemit:
Our goal is to first and foremost make Steem-centric tools. Our longer broader vision is one that touches all social media channels with one dashboard to control them all. You will one day be able to post to FB, Twitter, Wordpress and Steemit at the same time from Ladder.net!
Who We Are:
We are real people - @rgeddes and @contentjunkie on Steemit. We are active members of the Steem community. Ladder and its servers are 100% based out of Canada.
How do we make money?
We view Steem as a long term investment. There have been numerous proposals over the last few months from @ned, @dan and others about outside development and revenue sharing (a curation style "tax"). This would not affect the user as Steemit will be charging this fee as well (details pending). We are designing our system ahead of any formal arrangements. We are not interested in charging any money for our services direct to the user- if the revenue model being floated around does not come through we may explore other options such as vote support. Obviously the more solid the revenue model the more money we can put into further development!
How Can You Join The Closed Beta?
Simply comment below and we will DM you on Steemit.chat with a secret link to add yourself to our system!
