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Learn a side skill like an instrument, artform etc which you can learn while you building this.
Can I know exactly what use case it might help you. Daily reporting ?
We had done a product hunt for valentines day and people have created timelines as we provide a private timeline feature.
Your thoughts on travel and hobby resonate with us and have seen early users using for that purpose. Could you try creating one timeline of your recent travel or a hobby and share us your feedback on creation of timeline. That would help us in improving the product further.
If you can share your email address or initiate a chat on the product we can take the discussion off HN and could serve you better.
TIA
We are working on fixing the complete user flow and making it more user friendly. Will consider your feedback for sure.
Twitter moments is not much customisable but being a platform we can come up with numerous additions which will be personalised to the user.
Consider this to have all timelines of your stories at one place - sharable, discoverable and editable at any point of time.
The posts are sorted as per dates and creating threads is much easier here than articulating on a medium.
The restriction on content size and picture based storytelling keeps this quite different from MEDIUM. As we go further, notification system for posts and embeddable features will differentiate from other platforms too.
Liked your airdrop party thingy. will think about it.
Do you think having multiple themed timelines tailored to specific use cases and some premium features will get people to use it ? oh yes and making it easy by getting some integrations on with fb/twitter/linkedin/ google photos and so on.
Early users who created content and shared it on social media
Some initial content seeded by us garnered a lot of visits
I didn't get the point when you say the tool cannot be used to create a real timeline ? Could you elaborate on what you expected ?
In medium, one has to construct the narrative which is not an easy task for everyone to do especially for people who cannot articulate well. Timelines have proven to be a form of narrative since ages and we wanted this tool to be given for people to construct a narrative of any life story they wish to say.
If you think it could have been done in a better way, I would love to hear your thoughts on what you expect over a medium in order to construct narratives easily?
It would help us in shaping the product. Thanks again
We built this product as an experiment to document experiences in a much easier way than writing a blogpost.People who are not interested in blogging could tell a cohesive story by stitching a set of posts which are easier to understand.
We are trying to experiment this and see if it could be used as a microblogging tool for experiences and stories as an alternative to writing a blogpost.
We will surely reflect on your feedback but if you have anything that we could look to pivot can be helpful for us to consider from here on.
thanks again
We will change the logo size. Agree on the landing page not explaining about the product. Will work on it.
We have the servers located at India and we are probably guessing the slow page load is because of this.
We are working on reducing the size of the page, which is something we have overlooked.
If the above teething problems are solved, can I know if you feel the product will be used by people gradually?