> Kyle, do you still have any day to day involvement since selling to CL? I am grateful for the community you built up and hope that ZURB can bring it back up to snuff.
I left mid-summer, so not presently, no. Appreciate that, and I'm hopeful that it's in good hands with Zurb.
Kyle, do you still have any day to day involvement since selling to CL? I am grateful for the community you built up and hope that ZURB can help bring it back up to snuff.
Have you at all considered relaunching it under a different name? There must be things that you would've done differently now, with all the experience you got from running Forrst.
No wonder I was confused. I wonder whether they are really buying the team or the community. It seems that there are less activities going on at Forrst these days.
Also, I think that ~3 months of stagnation, low engagement, lots of "testing this out" sets, I should have a pretty good sense that I'm not going about this in a way that is interesting to others. (But as long as it is to me, then I'm happy.)
I'm fortunate to be in a position where I can run this forever whether or not it achieves meaningful scale. It's built for me (though it already has resonated with many).
As far as growth is concerned, it's already growing organically on its own and for the time being that's satisfactory to me. I haven't get invested serious resources in growth. Then again, I managed to grow my last product to > 50,000 users purely through and invitation model, with almost nothing spent on marketing. There's a pretty compelling reason IMO to want to build sets together, and I think a lot of the same invite driven mechanics will apply.
That being said, I'm more focused on just building a great product that I use daily.
You're certainly not missing the point; the pull quotes clearly aren't cutting it. :) Going to spend the weekend reworking the way work is presented. Ideally I'd like to offer a few templates for work, such that the user can pick short/medium/long-form, or, perhaps make it based specifically on the category (poem, novel, tagline, etc.)
The intention of the site is to help writers show off work elegantly, though, seems I'm not quite there yet.
Really appreciate the feedback. You make some great points, and it's clear that what I've got at this stage falls short of truly showing off writing in a way respectful to the writing. The pullquote format is actually left over, so to speak, from the previous iteration of Boldfaced, which was solely for copywriters. Based on feedback, I decided to shift gears and focus on helping any kind of writer show off their work.
And yep, this is an Elepath project. Thanks for kind words. :)