Yeah, this is why I really needed Microcosm to get that funding. I knew we needed an app, a web forum isn't going to cut it. I can make the web forum feel like an app to a point, but we needed an app and then to slowly blur the lines between forum conversation and a chat/messaging app. We should have been aiming towards being a cross between Instagram and WhatsApp and Reddit. I kick myself that I knew this and couldn't convince investors who had already collectively moved on to biotech as the next big thing.
Think communication and contact after the forum has moved onto WhatsApp/Instagram etc.
Smaller more tight knit groups whose interests only intersect with the forum sporadically.
Once you’ve got someone’s mobile number or insta handle, why would you need the forum to keep talking.
Yeah, this is why I really needed Microcosm to get that funding. I knew we needed an app, a web forum isn't going to cut it. I can make the web forum feel like an app to a point, but we needed an app and then to slowly blur the lines between forum conversation and a chat/messaging app. We should have been aiming towards being a cross between Instagram and WhatsApp and Reddit. I kick myself that I knew this and couldn't convince investors who had already collectively moved on to biotech as the next big thing.