HACKER Q&A
📣 Malik-Whitten

What features would make you switch to a new social platform?


What features would make you switch to a new social platform?


  👤 warrenm Accepted Answer ✓
None

Features are not why people switch

If features were good enough, Google+ would have left Facebook in the dust

If features were good enough, Mastodon would have buried Twitter years ago

Adapting the adage "amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics" - "amateurs talk features, professionals talk problem solving"

"Features" are how bad marketers promote their offerings

Problem solving is how good marketers promote their offerings

You need to solve a problem for me to consider you - a 'feature' has never solved a single problem

Identify problems (real or imagined) that I have that your XYZ solves for me (at all; in a better way than what I am using now; etc), and you have a chance to get me to switch

Try to pitch me on your "features", and I will keep on surfing by


👤 PaulHoule
It's not the features but the folks.