People in University and the youth in general are satisfied with the current offerings: Social media, current meetup apps, events happening around campus.
The problem of loneliness is still there. But maybe technology can’t directly solve that problem. People need to want to change/improve/find friends.
It is through that effort that connections can be unlocked
you can’t open a tuna can without putting some effort into it. Same with unlocking connection with people.
I’m trying to build for people who don’t care (a good fraction of uni students)
they’re just lifeless dopamine-seeking, pleasure-sucking, robots
It doesn’t solve the root problem
People lack the social skills and confidence in themselves to push through the resistance and actually start conversations, more specifically meaningful conversations.
there’s so much on the line when reaching out to new people (Orbit AI blueprint solves that)
can technology reduce that pressure?
The new memory vault idea allows the user to choose who to meet, with the faith that our system can make it easier for them to connect with them which would reduce the pressure to connect with someone, whether a friend or a stranger
people don’t know how to reach the juicy parts of a conversations that actually leave an impression. That actually leads to people bonding and connecting with each other
this is mainly social skills but even if you have the best social skills, sometimes it takes time to find these things that will make these sparks happen
Maybe connection is a byproduct of other factors that my solutions don’t focus on
Had a convo with a friend about this.
Feel good about yourself → make more friends
What dictates people meeting a lot of people? How they feel, their self-esteem, their energy levels.
Uplift people. Maybe connection is a byproduct of uplifting people
2 Depressed people connecting over their struggles and negatively pushing each other to a worse state
Maybe tech can’t really solve this problem?
Card game does?
Maybe tech doesn’t deal with the root of the problem at hand
Current offerings don’t teach and empower people to be better friends and communicators. People don’t know how. So maybe tech can help with that through daily challenges like DareDash
to make that process from “no value” to “value” from the network effect as fast as possible
Or fix the whole system running it. That’s what Risely AI, a YC backed company, is doing.
Different people (majors) have different ways of connecting.
Typically CS majors are more than willing to connect and be friends with people on Discord
Psyc majors would definitely not
Solutions
This is why it is important to narrow down on a niche
I can create a discord bot so that the AI would listen to the convo and be part of the CS community
Most students are not “looking” for anyone specific
There are just a few people who would say that they are specifically looking for someone with specific traits.
There are just a few kinds of people who actually care about who they wanna meet or become friends with
People are generally only looking for that kind of specific person when it comes to dating and finding someone that you can work with for a long time like a co-founder.
Bumble for friends
People bond over things that can’t really be shared to the public
Shared course trauma. Most popular in medicine or engineering.
The only way that can work is if people trauma dump in my platform. But why the hell would they do that?