Vanity as an engine of progress

    All people are conceited. Those. they are, of course, also mortal, but, in the first place, conceited. Why not use this simple, in general, thing as a driving force for a startup?

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    I warn you right away - all that will be described below are my idle conclusions. Unfortunately, I myself am not a programmer, and even less so a startup. But! it may turn out that these very conclusions will seem to someone interesting and applicable in practice.

    So, we proceed from a simple argument that all people lieall people are conceited. Accordingly, everyone has already posted a photo on classmates in a swimsuit (swimming trunks) and started the album “I am at sea” in “contact” (I haven’t sat down, I saw the sea). What's next? And further, it is assumed that the user desperately needs some kind of piper (this is where the most important ambush lies, but is it really necessary? But we will go along the path of mathematicians and say: suppose we really need it).

    The mechanism of work : so, each Vasya (and even more so Petya) just needs to know where he actually belongs in this world. It is clear that not on the first. But not at the last one!

    So, the user logs in to our site (let's call it loudly - “Runet persona”, drive the addresses of his social profiles into the system (in contact, classmates, LiveJournal, facebook, myspace, twitter, etc.). After that, the system analyzes its amount friends, the number of comments on posts, etc. and calculates a one-time coolness rating (indicated by a numeral). The user is given a code to insert into a blog, forum, etc., so that he can easily post it anywhere and be proud.

    Now the most interesting thing: the rating is constantly changing. Once a user performs an action, his rating starts jumping both up and down. Those. wrote a post, received comments, and immediately grew up in his own eyes by a couple of hundred points (or in other words, became cooler than 200 unknown people). As experience shows, on the same hub, a rating growth of 2-3 points can exalt several thousand points in the rating. Interpolating these thoughts on the whole runet, and taking into account the general passivity of the audience, the ups should be even more impressive. I think it should be exciting.

    About the count: Each resource should bring a different number of points. Those. some will be more valuable, others less. For example, a LiveJournal post with a large number of characters should “cost” more than a couple of Twitter posts. And for overactive and popular users (such as the “other” and Lebedev), it is necessary to introduce reduction factors. Because the inertia of popularity works for them, whatever they post). But, of course, this is debatable and conceivable.

    Monetization : the first thing that comes to mind is text ads in the rating insert code. The second is the development of statistics on users and its sale to interested agencies.

    In general terms, something like this. Naturally, the details are not spelled out, but this, so to speak, is a general concept :)

    UPD: the feature of the service, after all, is not to show where you are (most people don’t get into the top positions, that’s the majority), but to see how easily you jump over the heads of a large number of people. And you jump from the slightest sneeze. Those. play on vanity.

    ps I wonder if someone realizes this, should I wait for the check? :)))))))))

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