You can now utilize HIVE via HiveTips on:
Gmail
Twitter
Youtube
Telegram
& Any email service out there.
Any website, page or even a post on a page can be rewarded with HIVE.
Anyone can now utilize Hive to reward others regularly in HIVE via the Hive Patron feature.
After many discussions with potential voters, the funding schedule has been modified to include a work year calendar with a set number of days off inclusive of holidays. This is defined as a total of 220 work days in the calendar year.
We welcomed the advice and a clear year by year approach founded upon costs and investment to date is now being implemented with this update to the proposal.
A concise explanation can be found in this vlog:
Original proposal date: 29 August 2020
Ref: https://hiveblocks.com/tx/df6c0f9fb5a5b5cc873372f81a31f1f5191b1010
For the people out there who would vote on this proposal with a year by year approach, instead of the originally proposed and defined all inclusive two year funding amount, we are delivering what you requested from us with the hope that you support the project in accordance with these options:
2020 Costs
$59,100 USD
Ref: FullAlt: 2020 Checks & Balances
@fullalt/fullalt-2020-checks-and-balances
Note: The above recap for 2020 was completed on the 23rd of December 2020. All work done in the days, prior to 01 Jan 2021 shall fall into the 2021 budget.
2021 Projected Costs
Costs
Labour (Dev) 220 work days x 6 hrs @ $45/hr, from 01 Jan 2021: $59,400
Potential overtime per month (including potential emergency calls during the 145 days off): Up to 4 hrs x 12 months = 48 Hrs = $2,160
Staging and production servers and other equipment: $1,200
Third party mandatory operation costs i.e. APIs: $1,800
Incidentals: $300
2021 projected total: $64,860
Total 2020 + 2021: $124,000 (Rounded up, 62 Days of funding)
We are considering a couple strategically-placed press releases that would focus on Hive itself far more so than on HiveTips and Hivepatron. For this, we will collaborate and coordinate with the individuals who have organized Hive communication to-date; ie. the individuals who manage the 
We will source these opportunities and obtain them where possible for free.
To give an idea of the market prices, we have done the following research to obtain outlet pricing:
Advertising Plan & Costs
List of site prices:
As you can see, should all these outlets and their options be utilized in this small manner, the costs are quite significant. We included that number for your information.
We appreciate everyone who has voted on our proposal so far and everyone who has enjoyed our products.
All timesheets and invoices are reviewed and audited prior to any payment being made. Only the hours invested and actually worked are paid, all at a fixed hourly rate. We believe in paying a fair rate for our developer hours and we do not attempt to milk the rewards pool for this with upvotes.
If you choose to support this proposal, we kindly ask that you inform us, so that we can add you to our DM list for sending out a reminder when the above defined funding goal (amount) is achieved.
This is our obligation to ensure that you are directly informed on time.
As stated in the video, the general scope of work and objectives remain unchanged.
Proposal Link on PeakD: https://peakd.com/proposals/128
This is a 'Cut' Proposal
Once the funding goal is achieved, the proposal shall be removed and everyone shall be informed via an update.
Major Unforeseen Changes
All unforeseen additional options can be submitted as new proposals, if necessary.
I.e. as new sites are added, most of them have a fee for using their API, these costs were originally included in the Incidentals, but are now omitted. Most platforms state very clearly, that they have a unilateral right to determine costs, based on their own criteria, i.e. number of API calls. If these exceed the current proposals planned budget then we have the right to submit those as new proposals. In short, if (once) Hive becomes amazingly popular (which will be awesome!) and our API costs go through the roof, then we'll need your help! Any such situations shall be transparently defined, with proof from the relevant platforms prior to submitting any such Proposal(s).
Reach us
If you choose to support/vote for our proposal or if you simply enjoy using our products, please join our Discord and stay up to date!
Link to FullAlt Discord: https://discord.gg/ESN9gz9
Proposal Link on PeakD: https://peakd.com/proposals/128
