HACKER Q&A
📣 amichail

Why not build a social networking site for people's aspirations?


You would share your achievements from the future with friends and family. You could use AI to create realistic looking photographs, videos, news articles, etc.

And of course you would have a newsfeed filled with posts from the future telling you about your friends and family.


  👤 ffhhj Accepted Answer ✓
> Why not build a social network...?

Because social networks have this chicken-egg problem in which you need to bring a given critical mass of users, and you can't predict their number, but it must have enough gravity to attract more users and keep growth.

I failed my own business-focused SN for that reason, even after attracting companies such as Sherwin-Williams and some taxi cab companies. That was a few years before The Social Network movie, before people started caring about privacy and ads. It was easy back then.