it would be neat if a user could publish a diagram -- or a web of interconnected pages/diagrams -- to the world wide web. a webpage, or website with optional password protection.
why? diagrams and charts structure and present information in unique ways. that’s why we use them to communicate and describe complex abstractions and relationships. why not use those attributes for less technical communications?
the most approachable use cases might be things like service providers who want to offer their clientele a description of their processes or services with dynamic, interactive diagrams. or keeping a customer or client informed of their order progress. the same idea as the graphical status trackers provided by UPS, FedEx, or Domino’s. only providing more information.
less approachable use cases might be a personal blog, knowledge base, or website.
isn’t that a completely out of scope? at first, no, it’s fully aligned with current vertical. but it could be a very low cost and high reward product test:
- set the feature free with a low-cost marketing package: a blog post and email campaign that announces the new feature and provides a few fun ways to use it.
- if it doesn’t take off in that direction, fine. low cost test and you still made your product better.
- if it does take off, great; it’s time to feed more resources for more testing; if it picks up steam, it’s earned its place for a full analysis of “what to do with this thing”
the market is flooded with products aggressively expanding into new markets. notion challenges work tracking platforms; work trackers are taking on relational database attributes to take on the notions.
