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I appreciate your thoughts. Makr actually comes out of a lot of learnings of building something really hard. At some level we realized that even the most perfect centralized system only solves part of the problem. People won't use it just because its decentralized, or built on open standards/software, except the people who already understand the intrinsic value of such things.

We feel like people need to feel like they have investment in the stuff they create. It is kinda like when Betty Crocker re-jigged instant cake mix in the 50s to add eggs, and then people felt like they were cooking with love™. We hope that Makr gets people to be creative, and thus care more about the stuff they have online.

It a different direction than the distributed bits problem (and D* continues to exist to solve this problem), but making people care about their stuff online might actually be a harder one in practice.

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I know, I emailed the author :/

The Geo and citizen journalism angle I think makes these guys really unique. Also, its just really really fast and easy to start streaming. When it is that easy, you start living streaming everything.

we have click to play gifs! How can we make it better?

For the P styleURL, you mean where you click into the lightbox, and pushstate the URL? We can do that.

wow, thanks for catching my mistake!

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> It kind of looks like Reddit for ADD kids.

Not terribly far off base. We want to build something that helps people actually create and influence things on the web, rather than just re/blog/share and discuss them. It's giving people a really simple way to participate with stuff they find funny/cool/interesting. Later, we would love to power people being able to play and interact with all types of content from all sorts of different places, but for now we are trying to get the core interactions right.

I don't really feel like 'going after Pinterest'. Makr is more about helping people MAKE new things, not just endlessly re-pin and reblog. Certainly some UI things work on Pinterest, but what we are enabling people to do is quite different.

And no worries about feedback, it always helps us get better and better, so thanks!

me, right now => https://makr.io/p/9561

also, check out the bookmarklet https://makrio/pro_tips

:)

Makr is more about self expression than Canv.as. We want create simple tools using the meme mechanic to help people feel like they are actually creating stuff. Canv.as is pretty awesome, but it is strong in helping people create more traditional memes. We want people to riff and play with topics they are in to, and other people who share their interests.

sounds hard

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