RE: Why Social App Developers Should Avoid Protocol Development, and Vice Versa by jonmaim

steemit · @jonmaim · Nov 30 '18

I still cannot wrap my head how to develop applications on top of Steem which are not social networks. The API to interact with the blockchain are only social network-based (follow, vote, etc.). 

Or am I missing something?

I'm a developer.

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