I used to hold thousands of NXT and ran several nodes for NXT network.
You know what turned me off? The community behind it, a lot of pretentiousness going on.
I still support NXT, but I realize it's not a coin that will become mainstream because the NXT community has failed to realize that they need to reach the average joe.
Thanks for your words. I've seen something similar, but here's how I take it:
1) Nxt is a living example of the principle of specialization at work. The Nxt community has decided to specialize in bringing new innovations to crypto 2.0, as still guided by the original vision of BCNext, and that specialization is actually working wonders.
2) It gives me, as somewhat-titular head dev for
NFD. It's a plain clone of Nxt with a bare-bones ecosystem at the moment, which admittedly does explain why it's
so cheap right now. Your observation gives me a great way to 'compete' with Nxt without really competing! In fact, I can push NFD without being anything but nice and respectful to Nxt, simply by working the angle you suggested.
It's as if I were a developer of modest starter homes and the Nxt team were developers of luxury mansions. The two subsectors only 'compete' in the formal sense, as the likely prospect for the former are not very good prospects for the latter. And vice-versa, which is clear if you know the respective markets. [After all, do you really think Anderson Cooper would be in the market for a 1,250 square-foot house in a modest neighbourhood?]
This differentiation allows me to push
NFD as a "starter home" for people interested in crypto 2.0 without objectively ruffling feathers in the Nxt world. I can very easily add, "and you always have the option of 'trading up' to Nxt itself." In fact, if I do this right, I'll wind up pushing both NFD and Nxt once I'm limbered up to evangelize in the big scary Internet.
NFD's low price and its plain-clone status make it even logical for me to cross-promote in this way, like a starter-home developer adding a brochure for the luxury-home developer with this note: "For when you make it!!!"
Unfortunately, in a sense, eXo is a real competitor to Nxt. I have the luxury of positioning NFD as a friendly mascot of sorts to Nxt itself, but the eXo marketers will have to be "competitive" vis-à-vis Nxt in the ordinary sense of the term. I wish I had some specific advice for promoting eXo, but I'm really not all that competitive by nature. Suffice it to say that the marketing guys for eXo had better be.
