For discovery, I no longer use app stores, music streamers, youtube, amazon, etc. I am stuck with time wasting organic searching. I think there is a huge market for trustworthy curation. Google may have beat out Yahoo, but I think it will cyclically turn back around as all platforms become more and more inundated with junk that drowns out valuable content.
> I think there is a huge market for trustworthy curation
There is a huge market for trustworthiness in general. It's getting really hard to get honest advice anywhere these days. It's nothing but sales pitches.
If I've already made a billion being scum it pays for me to buy your trustworthy platform when it is still in the millions stage, then corrupt it and pump as much money out of it as possible based on its good name.
We see this on non internet products often. Some popular 'small farm' product gets bought by a megacorp but they don't change their marketing.
> I think there is a huge market for trustworthy curation.
+ 1000x. This has been on my mind for a while. The problem of decision fatigue. I was trying to explain this to my parents and in-laws recently: If you go to a library, and there are
1. 2 books, how much time will you need to decide between the two?
2. 10 books, how much then?
3. 1000 books?
And does your happiness increase with the amount of choices?
I don’t want only content some algo thinks I’ll enjoy. (At least not exclusively)
I also want to know what other people are interested in. The context that my friend thinks thing thing is ‘the best thing they’ve ever seen’ could make it worth consuming, even if it’s way out of my wheel house.
Brave Goggles was the last project I saw that gave a hope that something more curated could be enables on (web) search results. But it doesn’t seem to have gone far.
