Got tired of reels and tiktok
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I didn’t feel like I was learning anything while scrolling on Instagram or TikTok. Wanted a more productive use of my time. This seems like a great idea!
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I didn’t feel like I was learning anything while scrolling on Instagram or TikTok. Wanted a more productive use of my time. This seems like a great idea!
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same here, the annoying part of reels/tiktok was never the scrolling itself, it's that I'd close the app after 40 minutes and not be able to name one thing I actually took away from it. curious if BrainFeed's cards stick with you the next day the way a good article does, or if it's still closer to snackable trivia that fades fast
BrainFeed
@omri_ben_shoham1 The concern you've mentioned towards the end is exactly why we designed retention around the entire app.
Whenever you encounter content that you'd want to remember, you should double-tap it and save it to your 'Star Field'. Then, BrainFeed uses spaced repitition to bring back ideas when you're about to forget them. That looks something like this: double tap today -> answer an mcq about it 3 days later, engage with a rapid fire about it 7 days later, ...
This way, the content you care about will be remembered. I highly encourage you to try this out.
the spaced repetition part is the actual differentiator then, not the card format itself. most feeds just hope the content sticks on its own. curious how the double-tap habit forms though, does the app ever nudge you in the moment to save something, or is it fully on the user to remember to tap before scrolling past
BrainFeed
@omri_ben_shoham1 The app teaches you about the double-tap during onboarding, and there are subtle nudges during the scroll where the app asks you to double-tap something you deep-dived into. The double-tap habit is a direct hijack of the double-tap-to-like mechanism on social media platforms.
We will look into how we can better nudge the user for this, as you've raised the concern here. Thank you!