Product Evolution

Last night on Telegram I had an interesting little chat with Cameron (aka Cam) from Cent.

At one point the conversation turned to an unassuming bounty that user @tote posted as a simple way to chat with a few other like minded Centians.

Viewed by an outsider - an Un-Centian or someone with no Cents - the post looks and sounds no different than the random thoughts people post on Facebook or Twitter.

Those random posts on social media don't normally get 23 immediate replies though. But by attaching a trivial bounty - just $1.68 in this case - everything changes.

And everyone wins: @tote gets to have some side chats and responders get a few cents for their time and efforts.

Cam said he thought this was like what happens in sub-reddits, only with incentives. It kind of is, but Reddit is super specific, whereas Cent is (potentially) everything - just like Facebook.

To that Cam said:

"True. Facebook is everything related to your friends, and isn't bound to a particular topic. Cent today is like a group of Facebook friends."

These groups are only going to grow as will the possible modes of interaction between Centians. For me personally, I can't wait until I can have this kind of conversation over on Cent. But that's coming soon.