Do one thing really well - and build the rest later. Speaking of competitors, the early version of Discord lacked some of the “bells & whistles” of other platforms. But it nailed one critical thing: voice chat.
Online courses have become a crucial part of the creator, influencer, and thought leader economic ecosystem, especially as we know that creators are experiencing extremely high levels of burnout in their work. It’s hard to make a living from creator funds and tip jars. Online courses make it easy to monetize experience at scale. Again, a total win.
But when you really think about it, why do they still have the feed? Why do you have to tap to get into the Story's experience? I think what TikTok ultimately did, there were a lot of competitors over the last 10 years that were doing similar products, similar sort of full-screen videos. I think what TiKTok really did was they designed the whole pr... See more
Memes: The other reason people might want a token is simply the belief that other people want the token, and will want it in the future. You can call it faith, conviction, or memes, but, whatever you call it, the machine that generates belief in the growth of future value is always going to be an important consideration.
Compare that to the traditional way of exploring your files, where the computer is like a dutiful, but dumb, butler: "Find me that document about the chimpanzees!" That's searching. The other feels different, so different that we don't quite have a verb for it: it's riffing, or brainstorming, or exploring.