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I'm into data visualization, game design, programming, writing, mapping, podcasts, reading, and I am currently working at a tech startup I cofounded.

I'm into data visualization, game design, programming, writing, mapping, podcasts, reading, and I am currently working at a tech startup I cofounded.
Heya, welcome to Imzy!
You should check out /books and /reads, and I totally recommend poking around the discovery page. Imzy is best when you have a lot of communities, I've found. :)
Thanks! Just joined them
Hello! What kind of things do you write? You should check out /indie_authors, /writers, /word_of_the_day, and /worldbuilding as some great communities if you enjoy writing. :)
That's amazing that you started a company!! How many people are at it right now? Is it just you and your cofounder, or have you already grown? Do you have funding or do you have another business plan already in place? Are you allowed to share what it is, or would that give away your real life identity and username connection?
Thanks for the reply! I appreciate the recommendations, joined! I have written two technical books and have been working on a fantasy fiction book for the past couple years.
We're currently 5 people in the SF Bay area and have raised funding. Will be releasing our app next month (will save you the pitch).
How about yourself? You seem to be connected to Imzy somehow;)
That's awesome. Were the technical books more for work and the fantasy for fun, or were the technical ones a fun project as well? So far I only start books and never finish them. Someday maybe I'll get there!
Good luck with the app launch! I'm sure it'll go great. :)
I'm generally a social media addict and I'm good friends with the people who started Imzy, so I've been around since almost day 1 on the site and I'm pretty familiar with most of the communities and how things work, haha. And I like saying hello to new people. :)
Both the technical books are the fantasy book are for fun (although, not always fun - fun in the same way running a marathon is fun ;) ). You can do it! Finishing is the toughest. If that's what's holding you up, one trick that helped me was to start writing small, self contained stories (or blog posts). If you can finish something small, finishing something bigger just takes longer.
Very cool. I'm liking it overall so far. Is there a meta-community, or a community for discussing imzy itself? Things like its vision, its tech stack, its design philosophies, etc
The problem is I feel like any story worth telling is worth really developing. I don't really have an appreciation for short stories even when reading them, I heavily prefer tv shows/miniseries to movies because you can develop the story and characters more, etc. So shorter stories don't really interest me or I can't even come up with a story idea to do that is shorter. But then I always lose momentum part way through a book and get excited about my new idea that's of course 600x better instead. :/
As for meta communities...
/imzy is where the staff make announcements and will sometimes share philosophies or ask for feedback there.
/leaders is for community leaders to share advice or ask for help or anything else.
/feedback is where people make feature suggestions, report bugs, or give whatever other kind of feedback.
So there are multiple ones? I don't think there's one about their tech stack I don't think... Several of the staff also have personal blogs/communities where sometimes they'll share more about their thoughts on Imzy and why they do things or whatever, that can give you more personal insights, but they're also just full of random stuff. Like I said, I know several of them, so I enjoy their blogs, but if you don't also care about that stuff then maybe you wouldn't. Probably the easiest way would be to look at the list of leaders on the Imzy community, since that's probably the easiest way to find a list of the staff, and then if you go to their profile you'll see a blog listed there if they have one.
Great, thanks for the response!
Definitely makes sense regarding what you said about short stories. I feel the same. I like longer form content. More time to invest the characters, to flesh them out, to really understand them and their world. I rarely read short stories, but I did find that writing them helped me with the actual discipline of writing and finishing a story - have a character with a problem solve the problem in a few pages. A condensed story, basically. Almost like outlining, but with more soul. Hehe. Sticking to writing something was easier for me personally after practicing with the tool of single problem / big solution (after all, one way to reduce stories is to consider them as characters solving problems). Sorry for the unsolicited advice ^_~
Haha, the advice is welcome! You've obviously found a solution to my problem, so I should listen to it!