I hate to say it, but that killer app could be ... a directory. A more portal like, tree like way to browse the web. Search has become so unruly. A person new to the web sits at a blank search box, and it might be hard to learn all the great places there are to visit. With the paradox of choice, people get so overwhelmed they just fall back to infinite feeds because browsing is so endlessly open ended. Everyone needs a "start page" of some sort, and I wouldnt mind if the msn's and drudge reports of the world had some nice fresh competition.
Shopping leading you to wirecutter type things, in a slowly refined way. Recipes organized in a mildly coherent way. Crafts, ways to find local home contractors. Wikis of the best way to browse the web. Best practices for life. Promote financial literacy, web surfing literacy, comparison shopping literacy, seo avoidance literacy. Make it easier to navigate the plague the modern web has become, and get people directly to useful things. In a way, designed with purpose and experience in mind.
I hate to say it, but that killer app could be ... a directory. A more portal like, tree like way to browse the web. Search has become so unruly. A person new to the web sits at a blank search box, and it might be hard to learn all the great places there are to visit. With the paradox of choice, people get so overwhelmed they just fall back to infinite feeds because browsing is so endlessly open ended. Everyone needs a "start page" of some sort, and I wouldnt mind if the msn's and drudge reports of the world had some nice fresh competition.
Shopping leading you to wirecutter type things, in a slowly refined way. Recipes organized in a mildly coherent way. Crafts, ways to find local home contractors. Wikis of the best way to browse the web. Best practices for life. Promote financial literacy, web surfing literacy, comparison shopping literacy, seo avoidance literacy. Make it easier to navigate the plague the modern web has become, and get people directly to useful things. In a way, designed with purpose and experience in mind.