Embarrassed to say this but I feel like we‘re getting closer and closer to „the first day“ that we REALLY launch Kiwi News. Confused?

Two years ago, on here (!!), I launched Kiwi News. Full of hope and within a cohort of founders who now mostly have thrown in the towel.

While it was fun at first turned into a waking nightmare. For a long time after launch we didn‘t have our priorities straight. We thought we could do more, so we explored a huge space of features on our product. We had featuritis. At the same time our main product, the content feed, was bad. And there were many bugs…

The lesson was really painful when ETH crashed to zero (1600 USD) and our badly planned runway evaporated. You cannot build bad products in bad markets…

So we had to admit to ourselves that what we were doing wasn‘t working. That we were doing too much. And none of it well.

I think we‘ve now come around to this. Kiwi is now simpler. It‘s a news feed website with the most relevant crypto content. 

Try it!

Okay so I was thinking how to talk about Kiwi once we did this pivot back to our roots.

I prepared some rough draft. 

Pls don’t tell Tim I shared it on FC because I haven’t sent this draft to him before YOLO publishing it here.

Here’s the v0.1 idea for our story:

Building @kiwi 
Writing @ https://kanfa.macbudkowski.com/

On a web3 journey. Guiding friends & allies on adventures in the new world |

Nouncil | web3 storytelling | iambradq on Twitter | FC OG

so it's not good enough. 

or you're not part of the target group, but I think you are 🤔

From the description I'm part of the target. From what I've seen on Kiwi I'm not.

And have you checked it out lately? 

Because we changed the type of content and the way we display feed by quite a lot. It doesn't address all of your concerns but the feed is def different than it was even a week ago

It's very dev/tech heavy, imo. 

The design and visual is tough--it's not easy to get a preview and find what you are interested in. I don't love Reddit style places where I have to dig through unless I'm 100% in my place. I can't tell what the articles are about, if I'm interested, if they are really good. It takes work.

It doesn't feel like a lot of 'popular' level stuff. Feels very hardcore ETH

There's not enough signal to know what's good. Smaller crowd upvoting and same crowd so it all feels the same in terms of what's good or not. 

Not meaning to be critical. Giving an honest answer to your question as I sit here and really think about it.