{"id":1150,"date":"2015-08-26T16:12:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T20:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agilityfeat.com\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2020-11-09T23:22:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T23:22:04","slug":"a-minimal-viable-product-to-make-the-world-a-nicer-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/34.200.113.64\/en\/blog\/2015\/08\/a-minimal-viable-product-to-make-the-world-a-nicer-place\/","title":{"rendered":"A Minimal Viable Product to Make the World a Nicer Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abraham Lincoln once wrote, \u00abeverybody likes a compliment\u00bb. We couldn’t agree any more with ol’ honest Abe so when our friend Steph Hay<\/a> approached us with her app idea to make the world a little nicer, one tweet at a time, we jumped at the opportunity.\u00a0The application is as simple as it is glorious. It collects and organizes twitter compliments tagged with #1nicething<\/strong> by a person’s twitter handle. The compliments get digitally recorded so\u00a0that you can revisit the compliments you’ve received and given to others, which\u00a0not only makes us feel better, it can actually improve performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We sat down with Steph to talk about building the\u00a0MVP<\/strong> and doing\u00a0Customer Development<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a01NiceThing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"1nicething\"Cue and Eh with Steph Hay<\/h2>\n

Me<\/strong>: Tell me what 1NiceThing<\/a> is all about.<\/p>\n

Steph<\/strong>: Capturing the nice things people say about you — and that you say about people — in a place you can check out whenever you’re feeling down. Just as a reminder that, even when stuff feels cruddy, you’re loved and you love, too.<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: How did you come up with 1NiceThing<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Steph<\/strong>: I saw all the \u00abHappy Birthday!\u00bb notes on Facebook, and I thought, \u00abHey, wouldn’t it be nice if more days felt like my birthday — especially the days I feel sad?\u00bb So a year later, I put a hacky Google form on my Facebook wall on my birthday, and it asked explicitly \u00abThis is my self-absorbed request to see if you’ll say something nice about me.\u00bb To my amazement, almost 70 people did it. Bananas. So I knew something was there, especially when people left comments like \u00abI wish I was brave enough to ask for this on my birthday, it’s great!\u00bb<\/p>\n

Plus, some of the nice things were from people who shared things about me I’d forgotten–experiences I didn’t realize had an impact on them–and it moved me to tears (of joy). I wanted other people to feel that way.<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: How does it work and why should people use it?<\/p>\n

Steph<\/strong>: Tweet #1nicething<\/strong> about someone. We’ll save that content to a page, respond immediately on Twitter with a link, and then you can refer to that page whenever you’re feeling blue–or just want a reminder of all the nice things you’ve said about people AND the things they’ve said about you, too.<\/p>\n

People should use it if they want to say #1nicething about someone; and why not? Doesn’t the world deserve a bit of love every day?<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: What is different about a digital compliment versus a non-digital one?<\/p>\n

Steph<\/strong>: Fewer germs.<\/p>\n

Also, staying power. The non-digital compliment stays in my memory, and I try so hard to hold onto it, and to pull it back up in the moments life’s got me down, but #1nicething<\/strong> keeps ‘em in a place that’s mine, as a support system to my brain.<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: Prior to building the application, what did you do to test the idea?<\/p>\n

Steph<\/strong>: That Google form, whoo-boy it was a hack. But it worked. To my amazement, it worked. \"1nicething,<\/a><\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: What have you learned so far from launching the application?<\/p>\n

Steph<\/strong>: Well, first we designed it to verify the person’s identity on Twitter BEFORE showing them their page. That turned out to be a hurdle most people wouldn’t get over; they didn’t want to log in via Twitter without seeing the results. (It was an \u00aboh-duh\u00bb moment as I saw people during testing stop there almost every single time, even though during the prototyping process it seemed like the safe way to validate a person’s identity).<\/p>\n

So we moved that validation step to the moment when you’d actually need it — \u00abI want to sign in so I can manage this page\/hide things\/get notifications\u00bb kind of action. Rather than the \u00abI want to see what this is about\u00bb moment.<\/p>\n

I’ve also learned that people will favorite my #1nicething tweets about other people–a sign that YES, in fact, this is a nice thing I concur with! Hilarious, and proves people \u00ablove to love.\u00bb<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: What’s next for the application?<\/p>\n

Steph<\/strong>: It depends; will you use it to say #1nicething<\/strong>? Will it just be me and Ford? Well, let’s hope it’s the former, in which case, there’s no limit to love.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abraham Lincoln once wrote, \u00abeverybody likes a compliment\u00bb. We couldn’t agree any more with ol’ honest Abe so when our friend Steph Hay approached us with her app idea to make the world a little nicer, one tweet at a time, we jumped at the opportunity.\u00a0The application is as simple as it is glorious. 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