Allen Wirfs-Brock @allenwb@mastodon.social
Dreaming and building the future of software; Project Editor of the ECMAScript 2015 Language Specification; Reformed Smalltalker. (@awbjs elsewhere)
@p@masodon.cloud snazzy handle you got there.
In this post http://scripting.com/2017/04/04/hopingForTechToSaveUs.html Dave Winer really nails the difference between being an independent developer (or other creative) and working for a BigCo.
Either mode has challenges. For example: next paycheck problems vs recognition/impact problems.
Probability of breakthrough impact low for either, so pick your poison. I've done tried both with some success. Different choices for different life phases.
An example of an adoption speedbump
How is somebody new supposed to know what this jargon (and that on the previous screen) means? What's a domain? I could make a reasonable guess that worked, but could the typical twitter users. Needs reasonable defaults. And where's the cancel button.
6) ...
5) expanded model for controlling who sees posts
4) new economic model to support all the servers needed to scale
3) Automatic cross-posting to other platforms
2) rapidly scales to 100s of millions of users
1) easy migration from Twitter&FB
What would be need for this to really take off. Unfortunately, so many things and network -effect is essential:
Editable posts, from the start, would be nice.
First impression -- it's probably too similar to twitter out of the gate. Benefit of distributed, open timeline platform not obvious enough to convert non-techie users. Needs a killer user facing feature and 500 char posts probably isn't it.
I new face for a new service. Will it scale??
