Thanks @Kazkar. I wish you the best of luck with all of your future endeavors as well!
@mandor - Thanks for your post! I decided to initially price the tokens at $0.10 USD/each. This is what they're priced at on the website which is the only place they are obtainable from at the moment. It's higher than others, but this token doesn't use decimals like most others, so people can't own just part of one. They either own an entire token or none. On top of that, there is only one fixed amount which was created and disbursed at the time of creating the token, so there will only ever be 888,888,888 total tokens in supply. There is no mining, burning or minting with this token - when they're gone, they're gone (unless you get them from someone else who holds them).
To reward those who get in earlier, I'm only offering tokens on the website in rounds of 10 million. The first 10 Million will be swapped at $0.10 USD/each, then the price will go up by $0.01 USD for the next 10 Million, and so on. The plan was to do this until all tokens I've reserved for website swaps (37.5% of total tokens, or 333,333,333) are gone. If I manage to get the token listed on an exchange during the process, I would be list it at whatever the current website price is. Depending on the number of holders and such, traders on the exchange could move the price down, but that can happen with any coins. To gain exposure I've been running giveaways, which I will probably stick to as opposed to airdrops because I believe it will help prevent too many people from getting the tokens who would then just dump them.
Sorry for such a long answer to your question, but I hope this kind of explains the route I'm taking. Overall, my target price is $0.10 USD/token. I'm currently running a 50% off coupon which means people can currently get them at $0.05 USD/token. I was planning to run this until enough funds are raised for me to get it listed on at least one initial exchange. Getting it out there to where the token was more tradable (and visible to people) is basically the next step I'm wanting to take.
Seeing that gas prices are still an issue, I do kind of wish I had gone the BSC route instead of ETH. My blockchain programming skills are still improving and I found it easier to learn with example code and find help online for Ethereum. My hope is the Ether 2.0 stuff is going to continue rolling out and get the gas prices back down, which I think might help with getting more contributions and holders. Ethereum is losing tons of money right now to BSC (and more specifically, PancakeSwap), so I'm hopeful they will get that figured out. Personally, I've had to stop using Ether for small swaps because I'm not going to pay $5 in gas to grab $15 or $20 worth of tokens. If Ether gas prices are still this high in a couple of months I'm really going to be smacking myself in the head wishing I had gone the BSC route instead, lol..
I was planning the same schedule/payout for the giveaway no matter how many people entered, although if anything I will up the number of people getting the prize - I won't be changing the end or announcement date, though.
Sorry for such a long response, but I think that covers everything.
