Deciding to Like
Share and Enjoy
A Bit of an Intro
Hi there! My name is Dmitry. I’m a web/music kid doing everything from writing apps on Ruby on Rails to recording productivity podcasts. And this is my first post for the LikeHack blog that I’ll hopefully be taking a good care of.
And getting down to business of sketching this one I decided to focus on the core problem and the gist of the main idea behind the LikeHack project that we briefly discussed via Skype with J and D last Monday.
It was incredibly easy for me to provide my understanding of what people at LikeHack are trying to build. And as a person from the outside world I managed to sync with their own vision they really made me believe in. And here’s why.
Cherry Picking Stuff - The What
It’s pretty much obvious that we’re living in the era of social mess. Everybody’s talking about their Tumblers on Twitter and gets criticized for it on Facebook as everything is being auto posted to everywhere. But who’s to blame?
We’re bombarding each other with witty articles, hype songs and viral vids that keep piling at the hell-of-a-rate so that the good old social feed no longer seems to be as useful and entertaining as it was back in the days of Facebook’s adolescence.
Of course we like the likes and retweet the tweets but where does it all go next? What happens with this great pic of you and your child holding the birthday cake, let’s say in a month’s time from the moment you tweeted it out? And don’t try to tell me that you have never dug down into this stack of hundreds of tweets in order to find it and subsequently frame it. And it applies to almost everything we’ve ever picked, liked or retweeted from the stuff in our feeds and timelines. We are so afraid of losing everything we like that we jump into creating folders, text files and bookmarks and that eventually builds up the same mess. And even if we manage to keep all our favorite stuff safe this way, we’re going to lose time looking for the right quote, recipe or book that we think we can make use of again.
And that’s the pain that needs to be fixed.
Deciding to Like - The How
Of course there’s no silver bullet… But what if I told you there’s a tool for you to keep all the cool things you’ve ever liked and re-tweeted? What if I told you that this tool makes it all organized and searchable providing one-click access to everything you love on the Web?
And this is what people at LikeHack put their time and effort in, really believing that it’s possible to provide the right tool for you to be able to save your time and energy when deciding to Like thus paying more attention to what really matters and making social more useful and entertaining than it’s ever been.
