Enthusiasm around doing something next

comments within Spaces - for non-members to engage somehow?

explore projects at many stages — like RFPs, seedlings, templates, WIP, completed…

private Spaces + still want to be able to do loose Spaces (outside groups)

integrations? - e.g. Discord, Twitter, ATProto…

more fleshed out archiving system - a limit on active spaces at one time? - making archiving just super friggin easy?

Studios more like Spaces? - e.g. could have cards - some kind of Space preview

refactoring how a Space appears - should show on the “join” page too

Space statuses - like custom tags - independent from status based on dates - would be great if this had a really tactile feel to it so people actually do it (as almost a form of celebration)

maybe we generalize “studio” to be this! - you get your own by default - and can make / join others

some way to have conversations in groups (generally, not in Spaces)? - add e.g. one-off cards to feed?

or maybe there’s an easy archive button that doesn’t feel shit to press for some reason?

passive ending / auto archive? if no one is posting, or if all projects have ended?

big thing and small thing? - like small up to 25-100 people - big for unbounded communities

join and invite people to your club

Proposal : put a chat icon on cards with active discussions, that fades with time. If you’ve contributed to this conversation, then new comments not only add to opacity but also shift in color (gold doesn’t meet accessibility T^T )

Better features for communication inside of spaces - general chats in the sidebar - improve the comment system on cards to be more like commenting than like a threaded forum - other?

nicer interaction from card preview --> full card -notifications can look cooler - indicate cards w/ active conversations (new or not) - easier creation, click button on any card to add comment

quotes in comments / basic annotations

refactoring discussions - more like comments than forum - inline replies?

chats as cards you can pin to the sidebar - special card type?

better conversation + interaction in Spaces

For the next Cycle we’ll build out features that facilitate *connection* between people.

A “club/group” notion in which people can join small groups (20 or less) and more passively follow along with people’s projects + lots of ways to engage without fully being a collaborator

specific people in the community notice and encourage your work

join a community to find others like you, maintain momentum, and benefit from the amenities of a group (feedback sessions etc)

join hyperlink in order to pursue an ambitious personal project

make a new friend, and decide to do a project together

a way to introduce people to each other!

And once we have that, a way to start your own school, build an incredible community around a subject you care about.

ways to interact with projects without explicitly joining them

Hyperlink as a school for crazy internet experiments, leaning hard into novel and weird academic structures and systems

A web I can explore of interesting things to do, challenges, opportunities, and each situated in a community that cares about it and will support me in actually doing it.

Creating opportunities for people to do cool stuff and have people notice

A way for people and communities to do RFPs easily for interesting projects

maybe a retweet, share story sort of thing where you can highlight someone else’s work if they’ve done something you really think is cool

- idea snowballs that others can push and grow together, like Pioneer but for creative projects and ideas vs. startups, and non-competitive

- a spectrum of ways to interact with things happening (projects, experiments, ideas)

a way to indicate that my project is based of this other persons/peoples projects in some way

the social graph is entirely based of friends, and friends of friends. You can connect with others by introduction or reaching out to someone a friend recommended, but you can’t find and follow a celebrity, and you can only be friends, no follows (facebook style lol)

- many types of energy visible, from immediate to adjacent to cross-network activity you can sense

- protocols for what it means to start something, to make progress on something, to move creative experiments forward

- Spaces as seeds, potential nodes in the network, that you can observe in others’ gardens or pick up and plant yourself

- growth cycle to go from idea seedling to nascent project to WIP to mature artifact-bearing organism…

rituals for engaging with things that feel good to complete, like I did my work here for the day, I’m all caught up with my friends’ work, etc.

- tamagotchi metaphor: growing and nurturing something (the Space; the project), completion as a goal but also process as its own reward (and inverted, too: the Space shapes you?)

- the overall system or bigger picture: inviting, an enabling environment

if I invite a friend to a space they join and immediately get excited and see a fun way to start contributing

I can feel a sense of continuity in longer term work, like a breadcrumb trail of past thoughts or artifacts or other things + a way to pick them back up that feels nice and inviting

- for the creator, active and alive, sites of possibility that encapsulate some important creative energy, where you know each piece and add new ones that fit just right

encouragement to shape or refine a project, break things into useful parts or phases

- projects or Spaces as these little vital machines, intricate wonders, like a handmade watch mechanism or terrarium or something that’s fun for others to examine

making projects feel awesome and exciting even at very different sizes, levels of completion, etc. (like getting hype about WIP!)

- Spaces should be cozy and personal and super custom-tailored

like a menu of ways to be creative, big and small

cards feel tangible, like building blocks to actually build off of, encouraging “yes and” improvisatory riffing etc.

- auteur theory of Hyperlink Spaces: each Space should have a clear personality driving it (one person, or an intimate creative team), and be a thing you can intentionally shape and share to others

lack of permission to join? DM’s seems intimate in a way that it’s hard to be with strangers, and replies, tweets, posts feel very... unsolicited

spaces feel like playgrounds, things to explore and interact with and invent

spaces have ambient energy, a nice buzz; it feels like there’s always stuff happening and fun to pop in and see what’s going on

Making hyperlink freaking sick

there’s a lack on context around what’s happening that makes it hard for me to find a way in

Social Anxiety hard D: making new friends hAaAAAAaaArd

asking a friend to do a long term project with you

it should be easy to measure, or at least sense that you’ve made progress

We need to cultivate a sense that things matter, and that other people are excited by what you do

lacking in direction and stakes

Finding some niche club/course/gathering on twitter and joining it

DMing a mutual for the first time

Asymmetry sucks, knowing that someone has more power, or popularity, or things to do makes you feel like one in a crowd

or if your friends are introducing you to new and interesting people

doing a long term project by yourself like blog, or research, or craft

because you don’t actually want to do this kiddie shit. but you have to in order to pick out interesting people to approach about what you care about

a sense of obligation to apply for things simple because you are hedging your bets also sucks

Applying to university / job / grant

you can do things like ice breaker, but it feels very artificial and contrived. Still it kinda works?? but it sucks

Things that could be dope but aren’t for some reason

most conferences! the shared interest is usually there, but not the formats for actually doing things with people

clarity, pointers, guides, good examples

Going down a rabbithole in a new subject

Especially with someone else at a similar skill level

being obsessed with something! it causes you mind to want for more

Pair programming on an exciting problem

exploring a system that has moments of delight

an eXTremEly measurable sense of progress

Editting your a piece of writing and seeing it get better

Tactile, making “real” stuff

measurable progress, a very tangible feeling of growth

again, very tactile. you’re literally drawing something into your mind, and the intentional time it takes to do it forces you to notice and learn

personal growth

Finding an empty room to start a club or something in on a campus

different levels of skill exist, but don’t matter, because everyone is enthusiastic for you and your progress no matter what

drafting floor plans by hand to learn about buildings

cultivating a sense that something is important

Cultivating and reinforcing enthusiasm. Something is important and someone else cares

momentum and progress

surrounded by supportive community at all times (at least a little because if people don’t want you when you’re new you’ll certainly hurt yourself)

Being part of a group

being part of something bigger, longer term

Learning to build things in a woodshop or ceramics studio

Walking into the NYPL Reading Room

very “tactile” digital experience

the very definition of low floor high ceiling

learning rhino and other 3d programs

finding techniques, and inspiration on instgram

also when stuff is super fast, always feels so nice :)

a show e.g. photography opening where your friends show up and appreciate all the work you did

small dinner party or show and tell where the ideas are flowing

a really good table of contents that pulls you in

a Kickstarter page where you see number go up (as creator or potential backer!)

blender / vim - when you figure out the shortcuts to do powerful things

games with good clear tutorials…idk like mario, portal…

hosting a good event where you feel like you’ve cultivated the right vibes + people have a good experience

posting a banger tweet that gets lots of good replies

comments on Spaces? - like a way for visitors (logged in but not member) to engage - annotation card? guestbook layer? - comments? reactions? - a way to solicit desired interactions e.g. questions or feedback you want people to engage with?

some difficulties we’ve run into so far: - time limits don’t always feel great - studios…not awesome - friction with questions + conversations - hard to convey the current state of things - not clear what to do in a space

who / what is it for? main options: - making cool schools - side projects and hobbies - small teams doing serious work

make a new club

adding new and existing spaces to a club

following within a group - new Spaces created - members join (???)

v1 groups / clubs

examples of lil clubs / communities: - craft circle - website tours + making - anti book club book club - zine club / comics club - RPG design group - event series organizing

A fully programmable, dynamic and responsive environment for creating high agency digital spaces for doing things with other people.

the social stakes are too high too soon, straight up DMing someone is a LOT and failure feels really bad (and is very common). But slowly growing closer over time over small, cheap interactions feels better

when I post / create something, I get positive feedback like “nice!” or “ooh say more”

ambitious generative positivity

loss of momentum

maintaining momentum

induced perfectionism

caring about the thing is the social proof that you are cool enough to join the cool kids, and that whole thing is better aligned with you doing what you actually want

positive feedback

it’s ok for the tool to be hard to learn as long as its immediately obvious what you could do if you were good at it

Binging a book series

Getting better at this tool makes it possible to do something important to you, that was otherwise impossible

Having someone very excited about a subject explain it to you (this happened to me a bunch w/ zk-snarks, and also many crypto things

Deploying code to a new system for the first time (Cloudflare Durable Objects, ethereum)

a way to show off things in progress and complete for myself and others... i dont need a bio, i just need my portfolio of half finished projects that i’ll get to eventually