We all have that one piece of content an article, a talk, a thread that genuinely changed how we think about something.
For me it was "1,000 True Fans" by Kevin Kelly. The idea that you don't need millions of followers to build a sustainable creative career completely shifted how I think about building audiences. It is also one of the core ideas behind Copus helping people build real, engaged communities around the content they care about.
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Hey Product Hunt!
I'm Handuo, one of Copus's founders. We launched a version of Copus here more than a year ago. That version focuses on "content creation" and has since become a home for half a million Chinese fanfiction enthusiasts. This time we built a NEW Copus with a different focus: "curation".
With more than a decade of the content creator era and now the power of AI, there is too much content being created everyday, which makes finding valuable content the real value. Copus is built for everyone to benefit from such value.
From our users and using Copus ourselves, we believe the product has two core values:
For content consumers: You get to discover new things beyond algorithmic feeds by subscribing to people whose taste you trust. In other words, more "intentional content consumption" and less doomscrolling.
For curators (people who have already been intentionally consuming content): You get to build and own a personal "taste portfolio" as you browse. People can subscribe to your taste. AIs (if you allow them to) can pay to access your taste for human proof answers (This feature is coming soon, everything you curate now will be ready for it). You can also use it with your AIs to get personalized answers. Basically, you can use Copus to turn your taste into your asset that has value to yourself, others, and AIs.
Our users are describing Copus as:
"Curating online feeds that nourish rather than numb"
"A Pinterest board for Internet links"
"A way to collate and share all the cool stuff I find online"
"Saving all the creative influences that have spoke to you, challenged you, or marked you in some deeper way"
"Being more intentional about my interests and actually keeping track of everything I find at 2 a.m."
Last thing before you dive in, if you use AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Deepseek, Mistral), here is a magic moment that will let your AI know your taste:
1. Install the Copus Chrome extension
2. Curate or collect 10+ links publicly
3. Go to your ChatGPT chat window (logged in)
4. Ask it something like "recommend me a movie for tonight"
5. Click the Copus icon on the right side of the text input box
6. Then click send
I've discovered tons of awesome media this way, and I'm sure there are more way to use it :)
So come try it out, and let me know what you discover in the comments!
Cheers,
Handuo