Nice to see people still working on content discovery/consumption.
It's a tough problem—balancing content discovery and customization in one product, especially once social and technical signals start to combine to create better, but more complicated, products. Retention goes up with continuously better customization over time, but it can take time to get to that a-ha moment. Initial growth is difficult, since oftentimes a user's first-feed-experience isn't great and takes more signaling from the user (which takes time and praising the benefits of Twitter/FB connect in onboarding is a hard sell).
Something I would love to see in this space is more connection between WHY people consume certain types of content and what they do with that newfound knowledge afterwards, then facilitating these next actions. There are so many types of content-consumption behaviors which all have different goals in mind. This was always the end-goal when I was working on Prismatic and I still think there's a big chance for someone to capitalize big on personalized content delivery + real world action. Getting the good stuff in front of the reader’s eyes is one thing. Getting them to do something with that good stuff (besides simply sharing links) is another.
Good luck to the team!
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