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Ahhhh a friend and I created a similar idea for startup weekend back in 2014. It was called Let's Get Weird. App would open only from 11p to 4a You were be able to chat and share pics only with nearby people Selfies were upside down, because why not At the end of the day period, pics, chats every thing got deleted and it was a blank slate the next day
Time zones are a problem. It will be 5am for me next time this will be open which is too early but since it opens for 3 hours, I might be able to check in for the second half of the remaining time.
This is a huge problem that could be solved by using local timezones instead of just EST.
It's an interesting idea, but if it's only open at a convenient time for a particular group, it's going to lack diverse and worldwide perspectives, and those are important for building a welcoming ecosystem. I doubt giving each timezone its own 3 hours would work, but perhaps rotating the 3 hours each day so that it's anchored on a different timezone would encourage that diversity of content and perhaps even encourag…
Name a social media site that has diverse and worldwide perspectives that also feels welcoming. Quite the contrary. Welcoming ecosystems are discriminatory because necessarily exclude those who generally aren’t interested, or act in bad faith. Community is local.
Ahhhh a friend and I created a similar idea for startup weekend back in 2014. It was called Let's Get Weird. App would open only from 11p to 4a You were be able to chat and share pics only with nearby people Selfies were upside down, because why not At the end of the day period, pics, chats every thing got deleted and it was a blank slate the next day
What did you learn from running that site?
I think the timezones issue can be solved by the user just initially picking their timezone and it stays sticky and you can't change it (maybe for a fee you could = some income for hosting...). The nice part would be that people from 3 timezones would be vibing together for 1hr...
When I lost my job the local unemployment office website would “close” outside of real world office hours. I thought that was annoying but also amusing. I do really like this idea. If anything I want more limited, but also more genuine social media.
The US social security administration site did (and still might) do this as well. Likely to enable batch processing in the evening without dealing with sync issues
One day we'll have the manpower and brains to figure out how to just have out of hour entries added to the next day's batch.
So yeah, the current window wouldn't work for me, but that's fine. Everything doesn't have to be for everyone. We all live in our bubbles anyway; creating artificial rules could actually be ways of creating new, unexpected interactions.
This being said – if you were to adjust the rules to accommodate more people, I don't think it should be "open from 7:39 to 10:39 in whatever your local time zone is", because that feels like it would just destroy the whole idea – that everyone is there at the _same_ time. Also, it would still exclude people who work evenings.
An alternative solution would be to have multiple windows. For example, if you have one starting at 7:39 PM EST and another one at 7:39 AM EST, there would be more chances that there is some time during the day for people around the globe to check in. Depending, of course, on many things: time zones, sleep habits, work schedule, ability to briefly slack off during work, etc. It would remain true to the idea while opening up for some more people. Just a thought.
I also think each window could be smaller, maybe like just one hour?
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Having used it, BeReal sort've gets close to this, but in reality people are posting the entire day after that two-minute window and people can still react to your photos throughout the day. Not everyone ends up posting within that two minute window and the only "punishment" for not doing so is that it just says they posted late. BeReal is a great concept regardless, just pointing out the differences and the realitie…
Most people I know are definitely not on top of their notifications like that. I'd be lucky if they respond to my texts within an hour. Even I who am on top of my notifications still somehow miss it sometimes, either because the phone was on the table or I just didn't feel the vibration. That being said, I like it as a way to just journal a picture a day, even without any contacts in the app.
Fun fact: If you don't open a social media account, then you will most likely not spend hours on their apps. Sounds really fucking crazy, but it's true. I tested it myself!