My only remaining feedback with regards to blind spots is that most (if not all?) successful social networks started very simple. Often not even representing a social network yet.
I think because it's impossible to predict what people want. So you need to start with something super simple and build upon the usage you see around that.
For example with WIP I started it as a group chat, slowly added some chatbot functionality, eventually simple profile pages, and grew it iteratively from there. But I think that 1) I wouldn't have been able to come up with the current website functionality from day 1, it NEEDED the iterative process, and 2) even if I did immediately build out the website, it wouldn't have worked because the community needs to grow into it slowly. You need enough users, people need to have built the habit of using it, etc.
Poppin already seems fully featured. I think that just makes it harder to iterate because you're building on top of a lot of assumptions.
^ This is all predicated on my understanding that you don't have an active userbase yet. If you did start with something simple, got users, and iterated based on actual user needs and behavior, then disregard everything I said :)
Sounds like you've thought it through.
My only remaining feedback with regards to blind spots is that most (if not all?) successful social networks started very simple. Often not even representing a social network yet.
I think because it's impossible to predict what people want. So you need to start with something super simple and build upon the usage you see around that.
For example with WIP I started it as a group chat, slowly added some chatbot functionality, eventually simple profile pages, and grew it iteratively from there. But I think that 1) I wouldn't have been able to come up with the current website functionality from day 1, it NEEDED the iterative process, and 2) even if I did immediately build out the website, it wouldn't have worked because the community needs to grow into it slowly. You need enough users, people need to have built the habit of using it, etc.
Poppin already seems fully featured. I think that just makes it harder to iterate because you're building on top of a lot of assumptions.
^ This is all predicated on my understanding that you don't have an active userbase yet. If you did start with something simple, got users, and iterated based on actual user needs and behavior, then disregard everything I said :)