Building Blankdot in public: the intent graph is a new map of who matches what

I started Blankdot because I kept hitting the same wall: there are people who'd want what I'm building, but the feed will never connect us. They don't follow me, I have no audience, and everything I ship drowns in a system built to show people what's already popular.

The bet is simple — the best discovery doesn't happen while you scroll, it happens when you're actually looking for something and care enough to say so. On Blankdot you post what you're looking for — "a founder with a live product and no users", "someone to build a music recommender with", "a rust mentor" — and the network keeps listening. When the right post or person shows up, you get a notification. No algorithm deciding if you deserve to see it.

The part I care about most is that posts don't expire. A listening post is persistent: if I post that I need a cofounder in june and the right person ships their project in october, the match can still happen, quietly, while I wasn't looking.

Building this in public mostly means arguing one thing — that intent beats followers, and that discovery organized around what people want can work for people starting from zero. The hard part was never the matching. It's distribution: telling people about a network whose value goes up the more specific you're willing to be. So I'm not trying to go viral. I'm trying to find the people who've felt that same wall, build with them, and let them tell the next person.