Hi there! I own the domain havesomeco.in, and I am working on developing it into a full fledged free cryptocurrency site. I plan to have over 5 different free cryptocurrencies offered, and you'll obtain them through various means.
It seems you want to develop a GPT site and you will pay with 5 different cryptos. Keep working until your site is completely ready to launch. However, imo your domain is not attractive, maybe you want to change it.
My question is, and maybe someone has more experience like with an ICO or something similar to my service, how do I gain user's trust? I KNOW I would pay people, but they don't necessarily know that. There are so many sketchy sites out there, and I don't want to appear sketchy because I'm trying to offer a legitimate service.
"Trust" is a thing to earn and it is only possible to earn over the time. You just need to be honest and keep providing the service as you have offered. When your users will see this they will stick with your project because they started to trust you and your project. You need to promote your project and need a budget for it.
Another thing - how can I raise money to help put toward development of the site? Preferably in blockchain contributions, but that, again, seems suspicious - I could just run off with the money for all people know.
First of all, for such startup project investors won't show interest.
Secondly, you are a newbie and most probably created the account just to create this thread. Investors from this forum never trust a newbie.
Above all, an entrepreneur of a GPT project should have the ability to launch the project by himself only. Or you may ask your friends & family to backup your project.