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Some reasons why this may not be a great idea: * No one really reads their own posts afterwards. * The crap you write on facebook is for others - ie, rarely dee

Some reasons why this may not be a great idea: * No one really reads their own posts afterwards. * The crap you write on facebook is for others - ie, rarely deep enough to keep for yourself. One place I think you could make money: New Parents. These guys post pics of their kids all the time and text. Grab all that put it into a book. I think that would be very easy for a new parent to do (because they already do it) and very valuable. It would be 0 effort for parents which I'm sure they would appreciate. Otherwise they'd have to download all the pics and then make a book adn add text etc ...

willidiots 15y ago
To a degree, we want to capture both the deep meaningful thoughts and the inane daily business, to capture a whole picture of someone. It's interesting seeing how little things (a check-in, say) can trigger associated memories for the reader. That said, there are certainly a number of people who fill their social networks with crap, and just don't care about it. For them, we have the option of omitting services from the book, and as we add more blogging platforms the value may increase. We also encourage users to keep a journal within Scribr itself via our nightly email, which makes the process super-easy. New parents are definitely a target market for us, we have a few in our Alpha group and we're finding they're really into it.
- keeptrying 15y ago
  I would definitely focus on your happiest customer. And its not like they will ever go away. The backlash from people saying "Hmmm it seemed like a good idea at the time but I really dont want to pay $20 bucks for a bunch of my 3 line posts" could be considerable. Also just targetting one market well is a lot of work for a startup. Anyway best of luck - its great to see you have deeply engaged customers - that to my mind is the holy grail of an early stage startup. Best of luck.
- zacharycohn 15y ago
  I saw the headline on this article and thought "Oh my god, that's such an awesome idea." Great example of one of those "So obvious, why didn't I think of that?" ideas. I was reading through the site and really liked it. I'm not sure if I'm the exact target market, but I really liked what I saw. I was about to back out when I saw your nightly email thing, which is what convinced me to sign up (can't wait for my invite!). Great idea, can't wait to try it out.

willidiots 15y ago

To a degree, we want to capture both the deep meaningful thoughts and the inane daily business, to capture a whole picture of someone. It's interesting seeing how little things (a check-in, say) can trigger associated memories for the reader. That said, there are certainly a number of people who fill their social networks with crap, and just don't care about it. For them, we have the option of omitting services from the book, and as we add more blogging platforms the value may increase. We also encourage users to keep a journal within Scribr itself via our nightly email, which makes the process super-easy. New parents are definitely a target market for us, we have a few in our Alpha group and we're finding they're really into it.

keeptrying 15y ago
I would definitely focus on your happiest customer. And its not like they will ever go away. The backlash from people saying "Hmmm it seemed like a good idea at the time but I really dont want to pay $20 bucks for a bunch of my 3 line posts" could be considerable. Also just targetting one market well is a lot of work for a startup. Anyway best of luck - its great to see you have deeply engaged customers - that to my mind is the holy grail of an early stage startup. Best of luck.
zacharycohn 15y ago
I saw the headline on this article and thought "Oh my god, that's such an awesome idea." Great example of one of those "So obvious, why didn't I think of that?" ideas. I was reading through the site and really liked it. I'm not sure if I'm the exact target market, but I really liked what I saw. I was about to back out when I saw your nightly email thing, which is what convinced me to sign up (can't wait for my invite!). Great idea, can't wait to try it out.