I recently wrote some code to mess around with self hosting a website. An MVP that I could get done and mentally check of as a “completed” project. That as well as questions got me thinking about the idea of writing down thoughts, but also doing so in a way that could be shared by others. The original Your Daily Quest was also inspired by app’s like Be Real and Wordle where its some app you interact with for a brief moment daily.
My first thoughts are to transition the original functionality of the website, but this is something I feel like could be neat as a Discord bot. Content filtering becomes the immediate long-term concern. It being a Discord app does mean there could be some built in “your journals are only shared with people you are friends with” or maybe we could even do a single degree of separation thing. (Of course while also providing safety features for blocking responses from a given user). The bot could also be selective by channel/role/server with the idea being the closer an association you have to the people the more likely you are to get genuine answers.
Challenges
Besides the initial neat idea, I am unsure how an app like this scales long-term. There is some conflict where the UI and website as a whole should make users comfortable enough to share potentially intimate details. At the same time, it would be a poor experience to create a thought-filled response to only view responses of people trying to be funny. Both of these issues being something that needs to be solved well for an app like this to be successful.
Does make me wonder if this idea could be condensed into something smaller.