Alex Paul
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Hi Fast Laners! I recently had an idea.
We all have stories to tell, right. We tell stories in our social circle, to our friends, they tell us something back, we laugh or awe at it and feel awesome. Storytelling is interesting for both a teller and a listener, and has long been a common activity we all regularly do.
As storytellers we express ourselves by doing so and feel amazing; on the other hand, people love listening to interesting or funny stories if they're told in a captivating way.
But real life storytelling has its problems:
You would basically scroll through short video clips, watching common people tell cool funny stories, and occasionally post something of your own.
Of course, getting both storytellers and listeners on board is an issue to tackle here. But I think the big question is whether anyone will actually use it. I'm speaking of users here, not customers, as sufficient user engagement would drive monetization.
So from a user perspective:
Questions marked bold are the most important ones to answer, so sharing your opinion on them alone would be greatly appreciated.
We all have stories to tell, right. We tell stories in our social circle, to our friends, they tell us something back, we laugh or awe at it and feel awesome. Storytelling is interesting for both a teller and a listener, and has long been a common activity we all regularly do.
As storytellers we express ourselves by doing so and feel amazing; on the other hand, people love listening to interesting or funny stories if they're told in a captivating way.
But real life storytelling has its problems:
- You can't share stories effectively after hearing them (or you can, but your depiction isn't as cool as the original).
- You can't listen to stories from anyone because you're limited to some geographic location and people generally don't share stories on existing social networks.
- You don't know have convenient-to-use filters on which stories you listen to unless you thoroughly ask beforehand, and most fundamentally, you don't know which stories are good enough to listen.
You would basically scroll through short video clips, watching common people tell cool funny stories, and occasionally post something of your own.
Of course, getting both storytellers and listeners on board is an issue to tackle here. But I think the big question is whether anyone will actually use it. I'm speaking of users here, not customers, as sufficient user engagement would drive monetization.
So from a user perspective:
- Would you use this social network as a storyteller?
- Would you use it as a listener, provided there are many interesting stories in the network?
- Why wouldn't you use it as a storyteller? What issues wouldn't you like to face?
- What existing alternatives are you using or would use? How are they better?
- Do you think there already is a good solution?
- Do you think it's not an important enough need?
- What potential risks and pitfalls do you see for this endeavor?
- What resources would you advise to verify my idea?
Questions marked bold are the most important ones to answer, so sharing your opinion on them alone would be greatly appreciated.
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