21 tweets · July 2019 · 136 likes · 14 retweets · read on Twitter
🧵🧵Meta-thread Things I Want To Exist (that afaik currently don't) Click through to the specific threads in order to discuss desiderata or existing solutions. Use this thread for sharing your own #ThingsIWantToExist! (But keep it meta; make your own thread & embed it here)
A version of twitter (or alt UI for twitter) that's actually optimized for having dense rhizomatic conversations. I have been collecting design thoughts (tagged #TwitterReplacement) for this for over a year; message me if you're planning to try making it!
@reasonisfun just tweeted about a micro-crowdfunding idea💡 (inspired by something I had tweeted! This is why twitter is so great. And her tweet inspired this very thread about #ThingsIWantToExist)
10× better podcast apps. This thread has a great list of desiderata:
Ugh, and talking about podcast apps is prompting me to note that our apps for digital reading also need major attention. Such core tasks with so little innovation! What are all of these tech companies DOING? So just made this epic thread:
An integrated multi-structure content editor.
Better systems for facilitating people working on these things! Could be micro-grants, micro-crowdfunding, DAOs...
Phone call to your future self: (this could be built by one dev in a day with @twilio probably)
@twilio Very relatedly but also different: An app to make it easy to wake up to a reflection from the night before, as a way to create more continuity between going to bed and waking up.
@twilio Audio for meaning+exercise. I've wanted this sort of thing for at least 5 years. Lots of variations beyond podcast+yoga, which I comment on the original thread because that's how this meta-thread works!
I think there's a huge market for this, and it'd be very easy to have a free version & a pro version (more tracks, more collaborators, higher res, export, effects, livestreaming, etc) Not easy to build, technically though.
This Music-Streaming Services one has been building for awhile, at least a few months. Had something half-drafted in roam and was inspired by a recent @patio11 tweet to write it up in full for Twitter. Tons of gorgeous stuff here.
I think this would jive well with functionality that encourages you to write down restaurant or park recommendations for places you're not in, and get reminded of them when you go, which is something I've wanted for a decade.
jfc my kingdom for x.com/internetraj/st…
Oh I didn't thread this one - News Portal / News Time Machine
something to facilitate real-time calls between you and your friends, in the perfect opportune moments, without scheduling
Here's a thread of single tweets about various things that would be great if they existed. Very similar mood 💞
this has been on my radar for awhile; finally wrote up a thread about it
Meta: a service for helping turn #ThingsIWantToExist into things that exist!
a site to show the various other products or ideas that got remixed into the products you love
an app that lets neighbors coordinate when they're going to be out so that they can enjoy loud music without bothering each other too much