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>>colone+(OP)
On the one hand, every time another scandal or breach is revealed about centralized networks, I want to post this and have everyone recognize the root problem and the solution:

https://Qbix.com (see the video)

On the other hand, I feel like I’m shamelessly promoting/shilling my own company.

How to do it in a classy way? I really believe that there is a problem people are not recognizing enough to do something about it (Diaspora and Mastodon and Solid are exceptions).

And I spent the last 7 years and $700K of our company’s profits solving it. So it’s now solved. If Mastodon is “a decentralized Twitter creation kit” where you own your own data, then Qbix is a “decentralized Facebook creation kit” where you can assemble social apps from a growing marketplace of reusable components, some of which don’t exist anywhere. Here for example is a Group Rides plugin that basically makes a social Uber, and ANYONE can have it on their OWN social network:

https://youtu.be/Z7Q7IzVv1VU

OK, but we are perfectionists and are spending months polishing “the other 90%” so it’s not a flop when we release it to the public to create their own facebooks. We need really clean onboarding and measure engagement metrics and fix bugs etc. It took 7 years thus far.

For example this was last year, we are way more advanced now:

https://vimeo.com/208438090

So, advice would be appreciated from people who have successfully done before. Maybe contact me (qbix.com/about has my email link). How do we get the story out there that Qbix is being built to FIX the underlying root problem of decentralizing social networking, so people’s data isn’t in one place?

Please if you have some knowledge about this, take a look at the above videos and let us know what advice you have to get stories actually published.

PS: one more thing, we managed to get tons of inadvertent press back in March including BBC and Newsweek, which you will find if you search for “calendar mining” or “qbix calendar”. BUT when I reached back out to thise journalists to cover an actual story of Qbix is actually doing, none of them replied. Many of them just want to break the sensational controversy because that brings notoriety. How do you make them write about SOLUTIONS to problems?

>>EGreg+93
Seeing as you asked... your website's terrible UX doesn't help. I just took a look and moved on within 30 seconds - a dated look and feel (that also feels targeted at primary school teachers), walls of text, broken links, no clear route back to the homepage to reorient yourself (can't click the logo), no clear waypoints to follow...

You only get one chance to make a first impression. I'm afraid the first impression I got means I'm unlikely to return. I suspect the same applies to all those who took a look in March.

>>lukebe+m4
In addition, the site isn't responsive, which is quite problematic considering that statistics show ~60% of web traffic is on mobile devices.

>>laken+z8
What do you mean it isn’t responsive? It loads on mobile phones with a completely mobile optimized look. Have you tried it? Unless you mean you loaded it on a desktop and tried to resize the browser window to quickly check what would happen on a phone - no normal user does that

>>EGreg+Rb
You’ve picked a point of the criticism and are trying to defend it. You need to drop your view of your own work when receiving constructive criticism. I agree with other comments. Your website is full of 3d effects and low quality pictures that imply it’s a product for children- and most importantly it doesn’t seem to mention your product besides the blog. A blog is a secondary strand of thought from the main page. You should only have to read the blog if you’re already interested and want to learn details. Also in the blog, you give a long list of features that are very difficult for non technical people to consume. There’s no value statement. It also reads like a side project and not a professional venture. If you spent $700k on this, you should really pay a professional to write some marketing material.