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When Substack launched their reader web app last year, I thought it was interesting but faced an uphill battle. It’s really hard in today’s age of addiction to get people to habitually come to a new URL. That’s why blogs died and became reincarnated as newsletters.
Nathan Baschez • Substack’s Ideology
Listmaking is the kind of thing that really lends itself to the internet architecture. There are a relatively small number of people who are obsessed with listmaking. But most people are into consuming lists. So, it would seem that, if you can get the obsessed listmakers on your platform, you can build a publishing network that millions will use wi
... See moreFred Wilson • Lists - AVC
Modern mobile browsers, Shapiro believes, are just as versatile as anything you’ll find in the iOS store. Over the course of 2020, his team built out an app store of individual units they called Kojis. Each Koji has a very specific functionality — whether it’s a game or a way to lock content behind a paywall — and aims to be as customizable as poss... See more
Simon Owens • Can a former Myspace CTO drive the creator economy's next evolution?
I may be wrong about this, but I don't think a "better Twitter" starts with a service which is simply a clone of Twitter except with a different community. I think it starts with a community of independent (and independently monetizable) domains that we network together in novel ways, to build decentralized media.
Balaji S. Srinivasan • balajis.com | Substack
‎Village Global's Venture Stories on Apple Podcasts
podcasts.apple.com“One of the things that we think about is what the benefit of an incremental feature is, who it's benefiting, and what the cost of that feature is. And the cost is really the important underemphasized thing in this equation. It's often obvious the type of person who's asking for it, more powerful ways to sort your tags or whatever. You know, there'
... See moreThis has to do with the idea of breaking up a larger app/platform into multiple apps/platforms, instead of building more features into the main app
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Daniel Ek – The Future of Audio - [Invest Like the Best, EP.147]
While they come with tradeoffs, it’s inevitable that more products will be built — or at least MVP’d — without writing code, including by programmers that can code.