APP IDEA: Pinterest/Pinterest board for memes

It’s an old app but do some research on ifunny. Very similar to what you’re describing. May be worth looking into for inspiration or a modern version.

1. Rarely, bc how many will I "use" again? Almost none. Memes are a largely an ephemeral pleasure, and the classic ones that aren't, I can usually retrieve from knowyourmeme. 2. Sure, who doesn't love a shitposter? 3. Instagram and Reddit are proprietary, for-profit data brokers. You could make THEM unnecessary by choosing to operate instead in an open, federated manner. 4. Some people do; I'm thinking of something like [mltshp.com](http://mltshp.com), maybe? And in these days of increasing internet restriction (e.g. age verification, the neuturing of Tumblr), being a paid service might be (IANAL) one of the more sustainable directions to go. One of the biggest reasons it would struggle, though, is that the primary task you're proposing -- determining aboutness of memes -- must still be done using human judgment. There are no great ways to automate that process. You can continue to outsource the work to users, but what about standards and consistency? Instead of scalability, you're looking at chaos...which defeats your initial goal. So you're stuck with slow and costly manual labor, or faster-but-more-inaccurate techno solutions. Doesn't means it's impossible to do what you want to do (libraries have worked with these restrictions for hundreds of years). But to do it in an economically sustainable way will mean solving some challenges.

Something i'd love to see built in to this would be sorting by year or decade. This way you'd be able to see a canvas of the different popular memes of that time period. Through users creating their own boards, the data could be used to compile a public board from the most reccuring memes for each year/period/at current

This is actually a good idea. Concerning the monetization maybe board creators could somehow charge other users for access to their boards? Or at least have the option of doing this, like a private board. I mean the platform could make up it's own token money unit thing, or just use usd.