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You should figure out your elevator pitch. I would've preferred, "personal blurb aggregator and it's better than Twitter or Tumblr because _____" I still don't

You should figure out your elevator pitch. I would've preferred, "personal blurb aggregator and it's better than Twitter or Tumblr because _____" I still don't know why anyone would use this when you can do all this using existing microblog services like Twitter, Posterous, or Tumblr and it's obviously already exists in social networks like Facebook and Buzz (status updates with comments).

DanielBMarkham 17y ago
...I still don't know why anyone would use this when you can do all this using existing microblog services... 1) Message length 2) Content preference learning system 3) Niche product
- bricestacey 17y ago
  I didn't realize there was a "content preference learning system" in place... Sounds neat, but if it's a differentiating feature, you should probably make that more apparent.
prawn 17y ago
Sorry Daniel, but I'm going to have to agree with Brice. Strikes me a bit as a solution in need of a problem -- someone might think "I guess it could be useful to have" but I don't know if many would think "I can see this being a core thing I really need to use every day" or would pay for. I think there could be room for single-use publishing ("I want to store and share something easily, but not make a habit of it like a blog"), but I don't think saving quotes and inspiration in the way you've described will take you places.
- DanielBMarkham 17y ago
  I don't disagree. After all, the entire point is to have a solution to start with, which might just be a personal itch, then pivot the more you interact with customers. The pivot is key. You and I or a hundred other folks could debate for hours the merits or drawbacks of a particular solution. The key thing here is that there is a direction that is very clear, yet also very changeable. Customer development is much more important than initial vision, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have an initial vision. EDIT: One of the interesting things I found looking for a partner was dealing with folks and initial visions. Either nobody could agree on one, in which case nothing could get started, or potential partners were so attached to a particular vision that it was going to impeded the required later pivot. It's hard to be motivated about something you know is wrong (to some degree)
  - bricestacey 17y ago
    Is there space to compete with personal organizers like Evernote, but with a stronger focus on user-sharing? Like Google Reader or Delicious focused not on pages, but snippets of content?

DanielBMarkham 17y ago

...I still don't know why anyone would use this when you can do all this using existing microblog services... 1) Message length 2) Content preference learning system 3) Niche product

bricestacey 17y ago
I didn't realize there was a "content preference learning system" in place... Sounds neat, but if it's a differentiating feature, you should probably make that more apparent.

prawn 17y ago

Sorry Daniel, but I'm going to have to agree with Brice. Strikes me a bit as a solution in need of a problem -- someone might think "I guess it could be useful to have" but I don't know if many would think "I can see this being a core thing I really need to use every day" or would pay for. I think there could be room for single-use publishing ("I want to store and share something easily, but not make a habit of it like a blog"), but I don't think saving quotes and inspiration in the way you've described will take you places.

DanielBMarkham 17y ago
I don't disagree. After all, the entire point is to have a solution to start with, which might just be a personal itch, then pivot the more you interact with customers. The pivot is key. You and I or a hundred other folks could debate for hours the merits or drawbacks of a particular solution. The key thing here is that there is a direction that is very clear, yet also very changeable. Customer development is much more important than initial vision, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have an initial vision. EDIT: One of the interesting things I found looking for a partner was dealing with folks and initial visions. Either nobody could agree on one, in which case nothing could get started, or potential partners were so attached to a particular vision that it was going to impeded the required later pivot. It's hard to be motivated about something you know is wrong (to some degree)
- bricestacey 17y ago
  Is there space to compete with personal organizers like Evernote, but with a stronger focus on user-sharing? Like Google Reader or Delicious focused not on pages, but snippets of content?