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Re: Introducing Kaia: Longer than a Tweet, shorter than a blog post

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If the only differentiator between this and the competition is the length of the content you're in for some serious trouble. It looks like a Medium knock off and I don't see the appeal. It's not like Medium keeps you from writing a short post.

Boundaries are important. Boundaries define entire new worlds of content. It functions way differently than Medium. It's a follow/follower feed structure. Medium doesn't prevent you from writing a short post, but we all feel the psychological pressure to not publish something on medium unless we have at least a page of writing. For this reason, blogging is very inaccessible for most people, and most of our daily thou…

I would say your other competition is Tumblr, which can be adapted for short, medium and long content but seems overwhelmingly to be used for slightly-longer-than-twitter posts.

Re: Introducing Kaia: Longer than a Tweet, shorter than a blog post

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post #10

If it's supposed to be different from Medium, why does it imitate the look and feel of Medium?

Medium invented a new design style. Many sites are creating variations of this style now because it is a beautiful way to display content. (Ghost, exposure.so to name a couple).

My point is: It'll be hard for your blogging platform to stand out if it's garnering first impressions that it's a "Medium knock off". I do agree with the idea of constraints and boundaries in shaping a product. Unfortunately, humans are cruel visual creatures
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