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Many of my FB friends are writers, this thing has spread like wildfire through them today. But the thing is it's a flash in the pan effect. It'll do huge for a

Many of my FB friends are writers, this thing has spread like wildfire through them today. But the thing is it's a flash in the pan effect. It'll do huge for a very short period of time with no revisits. If you monetize, do it RIGHT NOW. Tomorrow is too late. Almost literally.

dchest 16y ago
I agree, just like almost every meme, it's short-lived.
- niels_bom 16y ago
  A lot of the memes on the web are short-lived, however there's nothing about memes that makes them inherently short-lived. Some memes live extremely long.
  - dchest 16y ago
    I'd be interested to see examples of long-lived memes like this.
    - dabent 16y ago
      http://icanhascheezburger.com/ http://icanhascheezburger.com/ http://www.hotornot.com/ http://www.hotornot.com/
      - hugh3 16y ago
        Those at least give you neverending variety. There are novel thousands of new variations on the lolcat theme every day, and no end to the slot-machine-like fun of rating people hot or not in the hope of eventually getting to one who is either particularly hot or hilariously not. But once you've posted in a sample of your own writing, gone "Hahaha, I write like Mario Puzo, hey guys, guess what?", I find it hard to imagine anyone coming back time after time.
        dabent 16y ago
        That is true. There's a lack of stickiness to the original poster's app as it is. It might be interesting to see how other people's writing was rated. The newsletter addition was a good idea. I have a feeling many "writers" would be upset to learn they wrote like Dan Brown, no matter how many novels he's sold. Possibly a "From Brown to Updike: How to Improve Your Writing" course. The OP's idea is darn viral, however. I love the success he's had.
woodall 16y ago
>FB friends are writers It may be a good idea to turn this into a Facebook app. That way you have a user base to experiment with later, as well as, some further advertisement.

dchest 16y ago

I agree, just like almost every meme, it's short-lived.

niels_bom 16y ago
A lot of the memes on the web are short-lived, however there's nothing about memes that makes them inherently short-lived. Some memes live extremely long.
- dchest 16y ago
  I'd be interested to see examples of long-lived memes like this.
  - dabent 16y ago
    http://icanhascheezburger.com/ http://icanhascheezburger.com/ http://www.hotornot.com/ http://www.hotornot.com/
    - hugh3 16y ago
      Those at least give you neverending variety. There are novel thousands of new variations on the lolcat theme every day, and no end to the slot-machine-like fun of rating people hot or not in the hope of eventually getting to one who is either particularly hot or hilariously not. But once you've posted in a sample of your own writing, gone "Hahaha, I write like Mario Puzo, hey guys, guess what?", I find it hard to imagine anyone coming back time after time.
      - dabent 16y ago
        That is true. There's a lack of stickiness to the original poster's app as it is. It might be interesting to see how other people's writing was rated. The newsletter addition was a good idea. I have a feeling many "writers" would be upset to learn they wrote like Dan Brown, no matter how many novels he's sold. Possibly a "From Brown to Updike: How to Improve Your Writing" course. The OP's idea is darn viral, however. I love the success he's had.

woodall 16y ago

>FB friends are writers It may be a good idea to turn this into a Facebook app. That way you have a user base to experiment with later, as well as, some further advertisement.