The thing that jumped out to me about this is that it seems too open-ended. In my experience, meeting with strangers is much easier and less scary if there is some point or goal other than “meeting with strangers who have similar views as you”.
Like, even if it was just to write a simple program together and it was obvious that this was just to give you something to talk about, I think that’d help a lot. There’s tools out there for doing collaborative coding online, you could maybe link to them or set up some sort of template on one of these.
I agree with AllAmericanBreakfast’s comment where he says people miss having ways to have open-ended conversations on the internet, but I also think it’s good to have some method of breaking the ice to get that conversation going.
All that being said, my weakly-held belief is that good and well-executed ideas are entirely insufficient to gain attention (in fact “good” and “well-executed” are not even required to gain an audience and attention).
The thing that jumped out to me about this is that it seems too open-ended. In my experience, meeting with strangers is much easier and less scary if there is some point or goal other than “meeting with strangers who have similar views as you”.
For sure! This is something I thought about actually. I agree that it’s a little tough to just bootstrap the conversation. Having prompts would be better. I wanted to do something like http://36questionsinlove.com/, but for friendship. I just couldn’t figure it out quickly, and didn’t want to sink too much time into the project. But if I or anyone else does figure out the right prompts for friendship, that strikes me as the seed of an interesting project.
The thing that jumped out to me about this is that it seems too open-ended. In my experience, meeting with strangers is much easier and less scary if there is some point or goal other than “meeting with strangers who have similar views as you”.
Like, even if it was just to write a simple program together and it was obvious that this was just to give you something to talk about, I think that’d help a lot. There’s tools out there for doing collaborative coding online, you could maybe link to them or set up some sort of template on one of these.
I agree with AllAmericanBreakfast’s comment where he says people miss having ways to have open-ended conversations on the internet, but I also think it’s good to have some method of breaking the ice to get that conversation going.
All that being said, my weakly-held belief is that good and well-executed ideas are entirely insufficient to gain attention (in fact “good” and “well-executed” are not even required to gain an audience and attention).
For sure! This is something I thought about actually. I agree that it’s a little tough to just bootstrap the conversation. Having prompts would be better. I wanted to do something like http://36questionsinlove.com/, but for friendship. I just couldn’t figure it out quickly, and didn’t want to sink too much time into the project. But if I or anyone else does figure out the right prompts for friendship, that strikes me as the seed of an interesting project.