Microcosm - 2nd Seedrs crowd-funding round

A site dedicated to auto-erotic asphyxiation.

OMG, please no.

I wouldn't block such a site, but I hope if people made such a thing that they caveat it with enough warning messages.

I dreamt up an idea yesterday, a marketing thing, but also a way to get to know the sites that use Microcosm and what their needs are.

The fundamental premise is that I want to understand the needs of the customers (site owners) and the users of those sites. And I want to encourage and promote the interests of these sites.

So I figured that I could, for the first 52 sites that reach 100 active users, give their site some promotion, and speak to them and learn their needs, and also discover too more about those interests... by attending a meet-up of each public site that reaches 100 active users. 1 per week, for a year. And each week or so a new blog article to highlight that niche.

I'd go to a meetup, hangout with them, and participate in their interest. If it happens to be cycling, great I'll ride, but if it happens to be fishing then I'll give fishing a try and will learn from the people doing it what it is about fishing that does it for them. I want to learn not just why people are into what they're into, but encourage and support it... and in the process, learn how Microcosm can help them with that.

It's a kind of extreme dogfooding ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food ), but beyond just using the product, I'd also experience the reason why people are using the product and get to know their needs better. Not just the "Does it work?" but "Does it work for this group?".

Now I figured the only veto I'd possibly swing would be obviously illegal stuff, and anyone running some arachnid appreciation group... but given the above example, I think I'd also skip participating in the auto-erotic asphyxiation group too.