Cool tool. It doesn’t change the basis of my comment.
The intersection of people who use a tool and the people who want to type into little boxes on the internet with people who do X typically approximates the empty set because most people don’t want to type text into little boxes on the internet.
People use hammers for tasks that use hammers not to be part of the-hammer-using-community.
What the context changes for me is the additional comment that building another tool (maybe for the same audience maybe for a different one) is probably a better use of your time than building a community platform for a non-organic community.
The tool works and that means people use it and move on. To a first approximation, it is finished…that actually happens sometimes. You’re at the point of diminishing returns. Or maybe negative if the community building effort distracts people from writing with popups and emails and pm’s.
Anyway getting good at building useful tools is a good skill. Part of that is recognizing the natural scope of projects.
The intersection of people who use a tool and the people who want to type into little boxes on the internet with people who do X typically approximates the empty set because most people don’t want to type text into little boxes on the internet.
People use hammers for tasks that use hammers not to be part of the-hammer-using-community.
What the context changes for me is the additional comment that building another tool (maybe for the same audience maybe for a different one) is probably a better use of your time than building a community platform for a non-organic community.
The tool works and that means people use it and move on. To a first approximation, it is finished…that actually happens sometimes. You’re at the point of diminishing returns. Or maybe negative if the community building effort distracts people from writing with popups and emails and pm’s.
Anyway getting good at building useful tools is a good skill. Part of that is recognizing the natural scope of projects.