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Morning, my friends and I have been working on a tool called Futureland (https://futureland.tv), that helps you connect your daily actions with your long term goals.

It might be worth experimenting with, we have a little community of people from around the world who have been using it to form new habits, learn skills, and see through their projects.

This looks awesome, ty for sharing <3

Perhaps in an ideal sense, it’s like a group chat of people that you find interesting, sharing their thoughts and ideas. It’s also useful as a mechanism for distributing your own work and ideas.

I agree with you in that, it sucks for content consumption, outside of keeping up with things in a shallow way.

I don’t know if you could rise to higher levels of understanding by continually using twitter, in the way you could by reading a lot of books.

It’s eerie how true this sounds.

Yeah definitely feel the same way about wishing this design language and approach was applied to everyday tools and objects.

Founder here. Thanks for your questions and notes. You're right our home page should include more information. Working on it.

Where do my data go? Are they encrypted on disk?

Currently data is stored on central servers. We don't see this as our long term approach. It's what we have had to do while trying to realize this project with limited resources.

Will they be shared with others

No. Your data is not shared with others. You can also create journals that are private and public on Futureland.

Is it free (gratis), or what is the pricing?

Pricing is $5/month for unlimited entries. Your first 75 entries are free.

is it a toy/game or a tool?

It is a tool that aspires to feel fun to use like a toy or a game.

I am going to take all of these notes and reflect them in an updated home page shortly. thank you!!!

Thanks for sharing this.

These are very interesting perspectives and notes.

1. "Are there ways for creators to easily share their work from the Futureland system with the wider Internet community?"

This is something I have been thinking about a lot. I wonder about the role of seeking attention while learning something new. I wonder a lot about how seeking attention affects what we end up making. Or what we end up not trying. I want to do whatever is best for users. I could be wrong but I'm not sure if it is as straight forward as adding the ability to publish to Twitter, Instagram and so on.

A long way of saying: I don't have clear answers on this yet and I think it requires deeper thinking and experimentation.

2. "Are you considering "mentor" or "support" participants who do not create, but provide knowledge and encouragement to creators?"

This is a powerful question. Some form of mentorship might be incredibly important. In my own life, there have been many times when someone I met on the Internet has said something to me that really transformed how I see the world or my work.

A question that comes to mind is, "how do you enable true and capable mentors to have more impact?" and "how do you avoid being lead by pretend ones?"

Yes, I have come across her project and her story - it's amazing. Thank you for sharing.

I am very open to whatever will make this useful to others. I would love to hear your suggestions. Feel free to share them here if it makes sense or if you want to message me directly, @internetVin on Twitter.

Whenever you're ready. Many existing users in Futureland are students in Uni. I encourage you to try and figure out why you failed in the past. I'm always around to help in any way I can.

Appreciate you taking the time to write about this. Noted your feedback. It’s great thank you.

Absolutely unreal

thank you so much. I find when I feel fear like that it's because the thing I'm about to try might actually work.

Not at 365 with code yet! Today is day 170. I think it’s very cool that you took the time to check this stuff out and write your thoughts. Thank you so much

Those are two of the suggestions I received in that moment. I didn’t think they were weird, I just thought they were things that I couldn’t do. Not knowing what to do or feeling like there was nothing I could do was my general state at that time.

It’s so cool to me that you listened to the track

I agree with your thoughts on Slack completely. Building on Slack was a decision I needed to make to realize the Alpha of this concept. I selected Slack because of the wide ranging types of people that already use it. I’m hoping Futureland can be a collision of many different creative disciplines. I live in Toronto and the density of telegram users here is low. At least in my life experience.

Over time if Futureland continues to be useful to others, I hope it can exist and provide value entirely on its own.

In this case I should also give credit and thanks to Slack. If it wasn’t for their existing software I wouldn’t have been able to get to this point.

This is beautiful. It's surreal to read something so aligned with my own experiences on life and the world around me. Unreal

OK - this kind of approach is what makes HN so cool. It's something I really appreciate as a reader. It's great that you have software that can do that.

fwiw the premise of asking any friends to support this was essentially, "hey I finally had the courage to post that thing we've been iMessaging about everyday and that you are a user of and finding value in on Hacker News."

I basically use my Mac to make things and visit this website.

This has absolutely been my experience. The artist Beeple is an excellent example of this and someone who inspired me a lot. Your work sounds really cool

Also here are links to profiles if that helps retain the "Show HN" status so people here can play with elements of this. I've worked really hard to get to a point where I have a working tool that people can use. It required teaching myself how to code to realize it. On Jan 01 2019, I had never written a line of code. I'm a huge fan of Hacker News and would appreciate the Show HN categorization.

https://hfo.futureland.tv/internetvin

https://hfo.futureland.tv/saph

https://hfo.futureland.tv/ruaa

https://hfo.futureland.tv/gabrieloc

https://hfo.futureland.tv/katherine

I will give everyone who signs up a chance to try it out to hold up on the promise. I'll do this within 5 days of them signing up. Everything about this is just trying to be useful to people

Some background on how and why I started this.

I was going through a very difficult time in my life. My father in law passed away suddenly two days before my son and first child were born. Things were very emotional and stressful. I couldn't find any clarity. I didn't have any time for myself to figure it all out.

One day, while sitting alone in my friends startup office I heard the song Naked Life by Oko Ebombo. I am not sure why it was this song or if it could have been another song. Maybe I was depressed enough. But this song made me want to make music. I messaged some friends with a link to the track and asked, "how do you make this?" Most of them responded with things like, take singing lessons, get guitar lessons and so on. None of this was an option for me. I had to be back in my apartment to help my wife in an hour.

So I downloaded GarageBand for iOS, made a track and uploaded it to SoundCloud. Once that happened, I started to feel better. Prior to that moment I had never made any music in my life. The next day I did the same thing and I just didn't stop.

I wrote about this process on Twitter in a thread titled, "What I learned making some kind of music for 365 consecutive days:"

https://twitter.com/internetVin/status/1019033516028280832

I am following the same process now to teach myself how to code. I never want to stop doing this.

Ty. Added feedback on submission.

I'll improve the rest of the UX now as well.

I was going through similar experiences. Last year I decided to see what would happen if I made some kind of music for 365 consecutive days with no prior experiences.

I wrote about the experiment on Twitter, "What I learned making some kind of music for 365 consecutive days": https://twitter.com/internetVin/status/1019033516028280832

Hope it's useful in some way.

I'm doing the same thing now with code. I am currently on Day 119. I've been calling these kinds of projects, High Frequency Output projects: https://internetvin.com/hfo/

Doing the best I can.