Man this seems like exactly the sort of thing I’d be into… if my family and friends would use it too.<p>The biggest problem with social apps is getting buy-in from everybody else. Everyone needs to sign up for a new account, install a new app, pay attention to a new thing, think in a new paradigm. And since I’m the one who suggests it, I’m the one that plays support when they inevitably lose their password, or can’t figure out how to shorten links to share, can’t figure out how to host images or link to specific content or specific places in content…<p>Which is why everybody still begrudgingly uses Facebook I suppose.
I never get the obsession with micro blogging.<p>It's useless. An exercise.<p>I don't get the praise in the comments.
When I'm bored, that's the kind of simple and easy project I'd write.
Or when testing a new framework or database etc.<p>To each their own I guess.
Not trying to be mean.