Now that the core values are defined, I’ll describe some other traits in people that partially correlate with them. (Note that the community is defined based on the core values only; anyone who fits the core value, regardless of the traits below, is already part of the community.)
So, here are some tendencies that highlight how most potential community members might be.
-The profile page should front-load intellectual and psychological alignment, while still being human and approachable. It should contain as much information as possible—this requires a lot of self-awareness. Naturally, many people would be uncomfortable sharing so many personal things about themselves, especially since everyone in the app could view the profile. One easy way to circumvent this concern is to set different levels of privacy for different parts of the profile; the main screen would be open to everyone, and the other parts would be revealed whenever the profile owner feels like the connection has matured enough.
The first screen could thus include:
-Ultimately, we could add modules to raise self-awareness about disagreement styles, thinking styles, intellectual interests, philosophies, etc. I suspect this would add very useful profile information.
Deep open-ended questions are a great way to deepen connections; they can be answered individually, used as openings, or as tags for filtering. Here are some that I find particularly appealing in light of the core values, but they should probably span many more topics (most of them are cherry-picked from ChatGPT).
-First of all, building free and open source software (FOSS) is a drastic paradigm shift from current meeting apps, which brings its pros and cons. One major positive side effect of FOSS is the attraction of technically skilled contributors.
The minimum viable product will contain these features:
-Let’s think quantitatively about what would be required to make the app useful and viable.
By useful, I mean that we consider it a win (for the mission) when every user makes at least one meaningful connection through the app. Let’s make a few assumptions:
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