What the hell could I possibly offer this place in terms of growth?!?

Content, no matter what kind is always good for growth, people will rush in because of Spider-man content, and batman, etc...

I first joined because I needed a place to research projects, stayed because I use Steem as a way to keep me focused on a goal, it makes me more proactive!

I'm sure that with your initiave you will get many people to join our community! It's hard because this is a new economy that people aren't used to or sure about, but sooner or later they will come an stay with us. Good job on the idea and good luck. Work hard play hard.

Going to look into oracle-d, I always heard about them but never did much research, same with utopian, damn, now i feel like a bad Steemian, I don't know some of the most widely known projects on the STEEM blockchain :(