Excellent post great work

I find Refind idea very interesting http://relevance.community/ but if it is the money you are lacking then you should seek help  from business angels or VC

Kickstarter could be one option. Have you thought about possibly trying to issue a UIA on bitshares? Then once SMTs are ready, you could do buybacks and convert over the SMTs. Heck, why not just do both :P

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I'm not a developer myself, so I'm not sure of the best approach to take in a KickStarter campaign, but here's a few ideas anyway!
1. Seek out some partner sponsorships in the developer software/training/equipment fields to donate their products, or at least sell them to you at cost for fulfillment of backer rewards. They get some sponsor branding and exposure to the Utopian community which is their target market.
2. Offer incentives to the backers account on the Utopian site. These can be purely cosmetic - such as a custom badging and reputation system, titles, etc... or functional such as access to private forums, discord servers, etc.
3. Offer a limited number of high tier rewards wherein the backer gets the ability to designate an open source project of their choosing for a Utopian "hackathon." This would be a promotional event of perhaps 2-4 weeks duration where Utopian puts an official spotlight on that project, offering it elevated exposure and rewards voting during that timeframe. Some folks might pay quite a bit to have a shot of energy infused into the development of their own project or a favorite open source project they use regularly.

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Account creation problem must be solved before aggressive marketing or else is just wasting money.

Thank God we are progressing in this great project. The doggedness of the initiator of this project is great and is a source of inspiration to many. Thanks for the mention.

I am also not familiar with how kickstarter works but am interested in joining the campaign when the kickstarter gigs start.

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Kickstarter is great for visibility! You need a top notch video and presentation for sure, try to sell the future, where Utopian is widely used already. 

For rewards, badges and such are cool. Maybe they could be rewarded with ico tokens later or let them have discount on the sale?

Perhaps design, programming and other tech services could be offered to contributors by top members of the community?

Hello @elear I need some stats like total no of contributions till now, total no. of contributors involved...rewards generated etc, any post for reference?

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Hai @utopian-io, I still have to learn how to use the facilities you provide, until now I still do not understand, I hope you are willing to guide me to use this facility in the future, thanks

> It is time for Utopian.io to go to the outside world..

To be honest I am a little scared, all the competition I am going to have as a contributor, but this the future, it's going to happen anyway, soon or later.

My suggestion is to try to fund the Steem blockchain, makes STEEM to go up, makes people invest real money, having a big market cap.

This is what I want to see in the near future:

![STEEM future.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTeDb8kwNah1aE8Pp1cRMBhCAENSjn58t7RUoxpUHtNYx/STEEM%20future.jpg)

I think I'm going to get that printed on a t-shirt. Just to confuse the living shit out of everyone.

## Marketing Marketing Marketing!
This is huge and something Steem doesn't do nearly enough of.

Also, I would like to see, if possible, more integration with github. If there is a way to somehow implement full project views like when you view a Github repo. Direct editing of files from withing Utopian.  Is this planned for the future? Is it even possible with Github's API?

I think to make this platform truely grow, it needs to be basically a drop in replacement for Github. Users shouldnt have to alternate between the two platforms.

Also, the signup process needs to be simplified and expedited. It takes far too long for new accounts to be created. Many people forget or just lose interest by the time their accounts get approved 10+ down the line. This is a big hampering in the growth of the Steem currency and Steemit along with it's apps.

If these issues get ironed out, along with more integration to limit swapping between Utopian and Github, then it will definitely be off to the moon!

I have high hopes for this project and love what you guys have done so far. I just hope it lives up to the hype and it's true potential is realized. Crowdfunding this project could definitely help it. Anything to help this project I am down for. But, with that said, the money better be very well spent. Well spent in my eyes is on development to address the issues I stated above between switching between the two platforms and MARKETING! Marketing is absolutely huge these days. Shitcoins gain huge popularity and have massive ICO's simply because of marketing. We need to get this project exposed to every open-sourced developer out there. There's no reason they shouldn't flood in to Utopian. Why wouldn't they want to be kindly rewarded for their contributions? It's a game changer!

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KickStarter excelente método el que vana implementar considero que es una buena estrategia, sin embargo les aconsejo que si logran este patrocinio fijen su objetivo contra reloj y les deseo muchos éxitos, se ve que piensan en grande y esto para buenos lideres  es un gran comienzo... Animooo!!

great idea, go global.. can't wait to see it fire it to the moon. This can benefit us all steem users..

We are now starting to get bigger and surely our contributions to the opensource community will surely be a big help. =) Keep it up Utopian-io and the people behind it. =)

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I've been researching more about utopian.io; and, have a post ready to upload.

Unfortunately, I have been trying to log in for about 24 hours; but, keep getting the perpetual loop.  Perhaps, it's just down for the weekend. I will try again tomorrow.

Btw, in the tags you might want to check the spelling on kickstarter ;+)!

Peace.

Congrats team👍 2 months 2k....many more to go....keep it on!!

I will ask some of my colleagues. I know a lot of entrepreneurs, so I'll get back with you soon.

Sponsorship in various forms and merchandising would help. This is really all about marketing. You have a very good platform/project, how to raise awareness and participation is key. Unfortunately I am not an expert in marketing, and I also understand marketing request funds too. TV(eg. shark tank), site, merchant products, video, poster, flyer, etc. What I can do though is to continue to get part in this project and contribute, and also share the info with my friends. I know it's very minimal, but if everybody does the same, it could have powerful effect. Best

yes i think this is the best solution to help #utopian-io see the world indeed to show the world what is utopian 
i will give my best too to think about what could  make the difference and help utopian win the campaign my best luck for you.

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cong.

I’m curious - why Kickstarter instead of an ICO?

Why not whip up a steem based kickstarter style applet and do it yourself, right here at home?