This might likely develop faster than your typical researcher's presentation skills. It could also increase access more generally. Science communication is a skill, plus an interested reader's ability to get to a conference (or watch the recordings) is limited. If this expands access to science, I'm for it.
(and I generally think AI-produced content is slop).
Your blog post clearly shows what you didn’t do: marketing, brand, and building an audience.
I understand the educational value of what you made. You clearly overcame many technical hurdles to combine the platform with solid educational principles. Awesome stuff!
But another major step needed was to know that a great product, marketed poorly, is likely doomed. Ironically, a lesser product marketed well, will likely succeed- it can be improved as it gains attention (and revenue).
Sorry it didn’t work out. Maybe one day your personal runway will expand for it and you can explore how to put it in front of an audience.
Once you get an audience, and you know how to build that audience, you’ll get user feedback, adoption traction and can explore new audiences to share it with.
We’re in an age where they won’t come to you. You must go to them (with marketing, brand, building an audience).
This has been my experience with replit as well. It needs to use design docs as the source of task and truth, as it starts to crumble as the app size increases.
With OpenAI I find ChatGPT just slows to a crawl and the chat becomes unresponsive. Asking it to make a document, to import into a new chat, helps with that.
On a human level, it makes me think that we should do the same ourselves. Reflect, document and dump our ‘memory’ into a working design doc. To free up ourselves, as well as our LLMs.
I am happily using the free tier to help launch my startup. It is invaluable to me. I am a big fan of it, and have no regrets with this decision (only 9 months in). I admire what I am allowed to have for the low price of 'free now, pay when you need to'.
In addition - grip strength can be as important and it also builds brain strength. An amazing case of: Use it, or lose it. I've have two hand grips on my desk for this reason, every long refresh or boring meeting - I'm grip strengthening.
"grip strength is also an independent and significant predictor of all cause mortality. How strong your grip is, is going to tell us a ton about how you're going to live."
https://zoe.com/learn/podcast-exercise-and-living-longer
Since I saw 'walkme' many years ago I became a convert of the tour concept. I now use the o/s versions in javascript. Not based on research, but I find walking tours, ones that live inside the platform giving a 'learn by doing' experience can be an immersive, contextual hands on way to learn. They only fall out of date if you ignore them during product changes.
Of course, some users, and at some level, we all want the hard docs. This is where you're moving down the engagement funnel, from orientation to the deepest murk!
I saw just yesterday 'is there a printable version of the docs so I can read them offline?'. A fair, but rare, request to make a point - don't cater for everyone's _preferences_ - that is risky.
It's a balance - but one I think if you need a screenshot to explain it, you should also consider how much it needed explaining. Is it work a screenshot, or a UX review?
I had no idea if my website was small or pico. Thanks! I qualify as 'small' in this list and I'm proud of that (10k viewers / mo).
My website is aimed at older children (education), it's no-code Bubble.io and I use google adsense to drive revenue. It _just about_ balances as cost neutral to operate. I do not update any content any more often than once every 3-5 years.
UK Government is discussing billions of £ to help people this winter. One Winter. I say invest in renewable tech + atomic energy and just get on with it.
The problem is that's a multi year plan and governments like the UK right now can't see past September, then 2024, then whatever short term deadline's around the corner. It's pathetic.
But you did use use your copper telephone line during the emergence of digital bits and bytes. Someone planned ahead for you. Do the same.
Another take on future proof is around designing to avoid unwanted obsolescence; we have finite resources on this big rock, use what you can. Get creative. Not planning for the future will see you under water.
you can email duck.com to forward your address to another address. Would't that create a super easy MITM attack if someone stole your address and forwarded it to theirs??
The database is far too small, go and really populate it & come back! this is an awesome idea, when you are ready.
I was confused though, there appears to be no long story involving a grandmother and a rat named terry who used to nibble at the candles in your cabin. ETC! ;-)
It's free money - however you look at it. Any government backing secures decades of contributions. Payments are often matched by an employer as a benefit. Contributions are pre-tax, thus saving real money. It's locked away, which means you can't spend it!
Not getting a pension, of some kind, seems way riskier than living only with money in the immediate.
As always, the trick is:
1. Compound interest
2. Long-term
3. Diversify investments
4. Maintain control and awareness
5. Compound interest
(and I generally think AI-produced content is slop).