This is a really cool project for a teen and an ambitious goal, so congratulations! That said, I think the goal and the approach are misguided. It's probably b

This is a really cool project for a teen and an ambitious goal, so congratulations! That said, I think the goal and the approach are misguided. It's probably better to take this experience and use it on a different problem, or join forces with an organization that has more momentum. 1. How would you sustain this without ads? If you take subscriptions, that will hamstring growth. You'd be threading a needle even if your app was objectively the most secure, private, and authentic social network. To date, this is an unsolved problem. 2. There are other non-commercial social networks like bluesky or mastodon. Why wouldn't people use that instead? 3. Face verification is a hard limit for me and probably most other people who avoid commercial social media. I don't see any reason to trust a random new app with sensitive PII. 4. Is face verification even meaningful anymore in the age of unchecked generative AI?