I made a spaced repetition social media website
The idea is that people see a lot of stuff that they find insightful, but then promptly forget. My social network (named Perennium) is a place for people to post insightful stuff and interesting ideas they find or think of, and others can “spotlight” those so they’d see them again every once in a while and it sticks in their mind.
It’s basically a social network centered around spreading timeless insights and interesting ideas that utilizes memory techniques to help you remember what you've learned.
The website is called Perennium and here’s the link to it: http://perennium.io (currently only works well on desktop)
I’d really appreciate if you could join it and give me some feedback. I hope it will be useful for you!
(I don't know if this belongs in Show HN or regular HN, since it is a product I want to show you, but it's not in beta. I'll repost as Show HN if that's where it belongs.)
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 26.4 ms ] threadSome of the words you're using make me want to join in, others make me want to run.
Make me want to play: timeless insights, memory techniques, insightful post, timeless content.
Make me want to run: social network, community of your peers.
But really, I don't know how it works, how I'd interact with it, how content is submitted, ...
... and I don't have time to sign up as an experiment to play.
Personally, I like a bullet list that conveys the usage flow.
Hope that helps.
Posts in your feed upon signing up are the ones with the most spotlights. Once you follow people, you'll start seeing posts by them. I'll have to work on conveying this I guess.
Why would "community of your peers" turn you away?
Thanks a lot!
I've seen it in so many places, mostly on things that turn out to be "Meh" at best, and occasionally "Ew".
But I don't want a "community of my peers", I want a community of people who find insights I otherwise wouldn't have found. My peers are people with whom I share interests, but I want insights from people who are interesting.
Also, you have this:
> "It's easy to forget the occasional insightful post on Twitter ..."
That made me think your site somehow links with or takes content from Twitter. I'm starting to think that's not the case. If not, if you are in fact independent, you might want:
"On other social media sites it's easy to lose or forget the occasional insightful post, but on ..."
Also, you really should be using https. With LetsEncrypt it shouldn't cost anything except time, and learning how to set it up.
I have the SSL and people can change pages to https by changing the URL, but I'm still trying to get a hang of making all pages automatically https. Thanks!
Now, about "Perennium": Taint the kind of name I would use for that very same reason.
This isn't meant as an insult and hope it doesn't come across that way. I love the project idea.