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by mycentstoo 3046 days ago
First, fix the landing page - you need to present value before you can expect a conversion. This means making something that is interesting and aesthetically pleasing.

Second, if this is a business idea, I'm not sure how you monetize this. Is it ads from user visits? If so, you are going to need a ton of user visits.

Third, up the social media game. If you want visitors you need to make these articles/timelines sharable and unique.

Fourth, I'm in agreement with others here when they say this is not a timeline. Medium/Wordpress provide the same functionality. This can be replicated in Wordpress/Medium just be including subtitles with dates in between paragraphs.

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This is an experiment to see if timelines can be used for telling stories much easier than writing a blogpost.

The posts are sorted as per dates and creating threads is much easier here than articulating on a medium.

The restriction on content size and picture based storytelling keeps this quite different from MEDIUM. As we go further, notification system for posts and embeddable features will differentiate from other platforms too.