Isn’t a big part of your userbase into new age stuff? If you think of it as nonsense, how do you earnestly try to serve them? Aren’t they asking for features you think are bunk?
By sticking to truth and reality. There is integrity in showing the numbers (planetary coordinates, segments of time, etc) as they are, they are real phenomenon.
It’s up to the user to devise their own interpretations. I do not do any interpretations, and that’s by choice. Pure calculations.
And what I have discovered is that all “astrologers” are different. Some are into glossy magazine style horoscopes. Others are more interested in a kind of “celestial statistics” — how and when things align, how movements create harmonics, etc. There’s a rich field of mathematical thinking if one wishes for that.
Everybody gets their own piece of cake. I am happy with what I do, they are happy with the toolkit provided. One can’t judge a pocket calculator for how it may be used.
Funky feature requests? Surprisingly not that often. The reason is perhaps the intent behind the app. It doesn’t classify itself as a “crystal ball”, it’s a calculator. So I stick to what is called “classical astrology”, ie something borderline between astronomy, philosophy and mathematics. Pure foundational basics.
> Isn’t a big part of your userbase into new age stuff? If you think of it as nonsense, how do you earnestly try to serve them? Aren’t they asking for features you think are bunk?
A chiropractor uses maps of human bodies to understand where things are, even though they use the information differently than doctors and surgeons, both groups base their understanding on the same facts.
I'm guessing the same can apply in more areas than medicine too.
The strangeness of the first one is the basis of the field. Literally all of chiropractic practice stems, objectively, from the one guy and his ghost revelations circa 1896 or so.
Exactly that. Instead of fighting belief systems, offer something that is useful for different practitioners. There is massive amount knowledge that can be made interactive and broaden our understanding of reality we live in. And there is an aspect of fun and unexpected discoveries once one decoupled themselves from any kind of ideology. Be outside the box.
Absolutely. So if you made a body map and your user base starts asking for you to add chakras or reflexology areas or acupuncture locations and you think that's all a bunch of woo, how do you respond?
For reflexology/acupuncture, you could have a section where you highlight typical focus points used in reflexology/acupuncture, without giving any sort of positive acknowledgement for them as treatments.
