This product need (and I know I’m not the only one who needs this) is basically “Serialize and Publish a Second Brain as it hardens and gels, behind a paywall”
The “content garden” subculture is an improvised version of about half this product.
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I was initially excited by the digital garden movement but it’s too atemporal for me. I like a strong sense of time in my writing process, as well as a sense of “in-world time” in whatever I’m writing
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Basically out-of-order computation/dataflow architecture has not been invented for writing. In computing it went mainstream in the late 80s, and modern computers are all OOO at lower levels though they present an illusion of sequentiality at higher levels
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I could probably spec this out fairly completely to be productized. But going by product manager experience 15y ago, it would be a near full-time job.
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Actually, now that I think of it, I already have 46k worth of a rough-finished and published/tested fiction (the fiction part of Art of Gig) ready and perfect for this kind of medium. I even conceived it as a TV-show style thing set in an extended universe with worldbuilding.
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I think what I might do is put that draft in a Roam graph and open it up to anyone who seriously wants to either a) experiment with a publishing model for it b) continue expanding the universe with more stories.
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Basically, I want to write the way I already know how, in a web interface (Roam-like) with at most adoption of markdown syntax, and have it automatically pipe into an evolving world behind a paywall.
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Kinda like publishing a Disneyland basically, with new rides weekly, plus updates to old rides, and more scenery, and maybe even stores for buying merch.
Token-gated distributed architecture would actually be pretty cool for it, but I suspect it needs to be be Web2.5 first.
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But yeah let’s connect if you’re interested in collab. My dm is open
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