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boom, purchased https://t.co/ZLAEkADyD3 💥 for my design rants but currently... it's bad! it's just a parked domain. so... what if https://t.co/ZLAEkADyD3 were good tho? https://t.co/UY9OgduJOx
my first idea is that if you type any url, eg https://t.co/tkXmAaFOhf, then it would perform some sort of search for "xyz" and if it found something, it would redirect you to that and if it didn't, it would prompt a tweet: "Hey @Malcolm_Ocean, what if xyz were good tho?"
and I could alias a bunch of things to the same thing, eg "spotify" and "ytmusic" and "tidal" and "deezer" and "musicstreaming" and many others could all point at this thread: https://t.co/moYzgxIdhf
Design Rant time! Today: audio streaming services. Why are they all the same old boring things and stuck in the same old metaphors of "playlists" and "radio"? Virtual ports of old music-library managers. Lots of improvements to be made—in particular, tags! #ThingsIWantToExist https://t.co/ApRtMLMRu8
an example of the prompt→thread workflow in action https://t.co/lAyoIcLWLC
I'm happy to do a design rant on almost anything, though not necessarily for longer than the duration of a single song. (You can propose a song if you want, though no guarantees I'll use it. Certain ("swagger") moods better for thinking outside the box.)
So! This overarching design of the https://t.co/ZLAEkADyD3 website means that basically you can always get an assumption-busting redesign of anything either • one that already exists • one I come up with in response to your query.
And I guess in rare cases I would simply have it redirect to an actual product that I consider good enough to be the answer to "what if X were good tho?" https://t.co/YxLEGccp2x → Complice 🤑 It'd be sincere! Maybe should redirect to https://t.co/xLxmRB83im, not homepage.
Okay, I have a design for https://t.co/ZLAEkADyD3, but... it still needs building! I think I could do this manually with WordPress but it'd get unwieldy to maintain. Probably wouldn't take long to hack together a simple NodeJS website I could keep updated very easily tho.
OH WAIT. Maybe @davidfactorial could build this for/with me as one of his 100 tools! https://t.co/Zm3MW7avGp
Although… part of me is asking if this current idea is anything other than a url shortener 🤦♀️ So I shall @AskYatharth: what do you use for https://t.co/msvDZ1YAKE? surely some simple service exists for that. Ultimately probably would be good to be able to customize things tho.
@Malcolm_Ocean https://t.co/pbZunoLpze