Yeah, I basically applied your suggestions from this article this morning and I finally broke through and got something to work that was bamboozling me for about 2 hours. 

I have another project on the side but writing articles for Steem is my main income now. The other project is still in that early phase and simply needs time to get noticed. Here, however, it's a matter of being active, commenting, following, voting... The software project and associated ideas give me something to write about and to varying degrees this is getting attention and votes. I will have the actual interface beginning to be created in my project soon, then I'll be able to post screenies and talk about that.