a perfect example of steem blockchain success story, started in april 2018 and by the end of the year an 'in-profit' mini business using the custom json part of the steem blockchain with lots of daily members playing the game and a successfully funded kickstarter -- if you can imagine it, you can build it on the steem blockchain.

maybe you don't have any money at all to buy into crypto. maybe instead you want to earn that crypto? well with steem and steem power you can, especially with something like steemhunt.com -- search and submit your favorite technology and gadgets (read the submission process first!) and you can be earning steem on the daily to help with your steem power hodl for additional curation rewards on a daily basis!

coupons and voucher sites are big business on the internet, especially for people looking for a deal on a game or a piece of software, anything you can dream you can build on the steem blockchain and incentivize people in the process!

getting paid to review the restaurants and food places that you visit? that's gotta be the ultimate form of blogging and reviewing right? well, we have that on the blockchain! :)

anything you can think of in regards to centralized applications can be built out for the steem blockchain, dclick is one such web application approaching doing advertising on the steem blockchain.

yep, we even have crowdfunding on the steem blockchain and we have room for other people to build similar services, move over kickstarter, we have decentralized crowdfunding using cryptos too! :)

dpoll is a service on the steem blockchain for running question and answer style voting. it's a free service that you can use and the results are posted to your steem account as a blog post that can be seen on any of the steem frontends.

maybe all these serious apps are not your thing and instead you would prefer to just post meme's all day -- don't worry, we got that stuff too! :)

there are plenty of places today to put your videos onto centralized platforms, youtube being the most known service out there in the world owned by google. in decentralized land you can find many alternatives to youtube using IPFS for storage in a decentralized manner, no single point of failure as the video is copied onto multiple hosts -- with all the changes in recent years from the EU with article13 on the horizon and popular you-tubers getting demonetized people have started to seek out alternatives with dtube being one of them.

soundcloud is a very popular centralized platform with lots of people storing songs and podcast on it's platform. it's been through some hard times thou and has had change of hands and buy outs and cash infusions at various times in it's history. dsound (similarly styled like soundcloud) is a steem powered website for storing audio (temporary) on ipfs with posting to the steem blockchain with potential rewards from the chain.

ok so we don't have a fully fledged system like instagram but we do have an interesting steem powered set of image projects call steepshot and appics, both allow for taking photos and posting to the blockchain, when was the last time you got paid for anything on social media? think about that!

are you streaming on twitch or youtube? what about if you could live stream and also get upvotes or post to your steem blockchain blog when you did? kinda changes the relationship with your media right? vimm.tv is a steem blockchain powered live streaming solution and there is plenty more room for more! :)

have you ever looked at your favorite content management system and thought how you wished it had one feature over another feature? with the steem blockchain you can literally design the front end system that you want! -- I've included a bunch of examples here so you can see how front ends can vary but the features are brought in from the chain! just think of the possibilities!

i understand your concern, you like your native mac apps the way they are, packaged and ready to go with a lovely interface, nice graphics, easy to follow menus and clean typography. i get it, you like that polished look -- well guess what, you can have that with the steem blockchain by using esteem surfer from busy. it's got a super slick look and you will love it!

you might have used facebook connect, a login system by facebook before to log into other websites other than facebook well we have something similar with steemconnect which enables you to use your account to login through that into other sites too!

what would a blockchain be without some super rad tools that you can use on a daily basis to get instant feedback about your steem account and how well some of your posts have been doing -- step forward into the arena then steemnow and steam.supply! both great tools in their own right! get up to speed with what's happening with these free steemian made tools!

what would a blockchain be without a decent wallet right? again, built by a steemian! :)

so the first steem blockchain frontend is a little limited in the way that you can't always get the information you need at your fingertips but with the addition of the steem plus extension you get a much better view of what's happening on your account right there on the steemit website by the means of an overlay of additional information.

if you are looking for a power tool to really drill down on everything that is happening on your steem blockchain account you can do no better than taking a look at steemworld (don't forget to donate!) -- this visual web app will help you at a glance decide on what's the best course of action to take with some powerful tools thrown in too!

what good would a blockchain ledger be without some super fast search option? yep, esteem search has you covered!

wanna use steem on the go? no worries, partiko, a startup from san francisco has you covered with a native function mobile application for both IOS and android -- with gamification features it's certainly the tool to get used too if you are a blogger on the go! :)

i know what you are thinking by now your thinking that maybe you need to look a little bit more deeply into the steem blockchain and your wondering if 'X' exists on the blockchain? well, no worries, we have steem projects for that -- we have over 450 dapps on the blockchain!

if you are a newbie steemian to the blockchain you would do yourself wonders to check out the support from the minnow support project and all the projects that they have setup in the last few years!

imagine quora, then add crypto incentives to it, earn crypto for questions and answers! paid for your time! cool huh? :)

we get it, you are still addicted to social media sites and you need a fast way to share some of your favorite things from twitter and youtube onto steem! well, that's easy with share to steem and you should be able to set it up in less than ten minutes! great for blogging to the blockchain on the go!

maybe you want to go hard core block explorer mode with the steem blockchain. no problem, we have tools for that stuff!

want to learn how to spin up a witness node quickly? well with 'steem in a box' as a docker instance you can be doing that quickly and easily with this open source solution!

love to code open source? or want to get paid to contribute to an existing project out there? well believe it or not now you can with the fantastic utopian.io -- a community of open source advocates that have built out a home here on the steem blockchain looking to probably go standalone in 2019 and support other cryptos as well (maybe!)

looking to do business? how could you utilize the steem blockchain? have an interesting business you want to intergrate into the blockchain? maybe oracle d is a good starting point for you!

i get it, you've been using wordpress for years, you've built up some great seo and you don't want to change -- people know your url and you want to keep that blog! BUT WAIT, what if i told you that you could get a free plugin called steempress that would allow you to post to the steem blockchain AS WELL! i know right? you know what to do!

if you are looking at investing and HODL steem then you might do yourself a favour and check out this very polished web application for investing that steem power to get a nice return if you are not blogging regularly with your account.

one of the main ways that i see crypto currency really being part of our day to day world would be when it's integrated in the point of sale -- from small business on the high street to payment gateways on the web i certainly see anyone handling the steem blockchain with zero fees and 3 second turn around times for payment to be a winner!