1. X Communities. These are underrated but growing
2. Meta Quest app development…. If we will all be dreaming to get the Vision Pro, and if (for most) the use of AR won’t be for work, but for play, most will buy a cheaper Quest (especially if it becomes the android for AR, and gets better)
3. Snapchat — still a frontier bc my eighteen year old cousin and all her friends are still obsessed and it iterates like mad
4. Neuralink patient no.2
5. Digital detox communities / becoming a Very Offline person — this is going to be the counterculture to the Very Online world (see companies like Unyoked and Unplugged)
6. Whatever comes after TikTok (pray not facebook)
7. Substack? — the crowd is here lol
8. Probably still X?
Do you have any Anu? Mine are quite obvious, maybe it’s easier to identify where the crowd has *already* shown up
Great piece. It was interesting to see how people approached the launch of Threads as a new arena — over the first several days active posters treated it as they did early Twitter or Instagram. However, since Threads was launched in the back of the Instagram social graph, the tactics weren’t as successful. Many imported existing follow/follower bases so that ‘noise’ trumped the organic growth of the arena.
Hard not to succumb to the bright shiny object syndrome. My arena right now it aging well, stepping out of the aging as decline model to the Age with Attitude! model and making every day count.
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1. X Communities. These are underrated but growing
2. Meta Quest app development…. If we will all be dreaming to get the Vision Pro, and if (for most) the use of AR won’t be for work, but for play, most will buy a cheaper Quest (especially if it becomes the android for AR, and gets better)
3. Snapchat — still a frontier bc my eighteen year old cousin and all her friends are still obsessed and it iterates like mad
4. Neuralink patient no.2
5. Digital detox communities / becoming a Very Offline person — this is going to be the counterculture to the Very Online world (see companies like Unyoked and Unplugged)
6. Whatever comes after TikTok (pray not facebook)
7. Substack? — the crowd is here lol
8. Probably still X?
Do you have any Anu? Mine are quite obvious, maybe it’s easier to identify where the crowd has *already* shown up
This is really well written, feels like exactly what's been on my mind lately
So new arenas everyone?! What are they
Good work, Anu! I'm enjoying these posts.
LOVED this!
Superb metaphor 🙌
Great piece. It was interesting to see how people approached the launch of Threads as a new arena — over the first several days active posters treated it as they did early Twitter or Instagram. However, since Threads was launched in the back of the Instagram social graph, the tactics weren’t as successful. Many imported existing follow/follower bases so that ‘noise’ trumped the organic growth of the arena.
Hard not to succumb to the bright shiny object syndrome. My arena right now it aging well, stepping out of the aging as decline model to the Age with Attitude! model and making every day count.