Initial thoughts on #Elys feature expansion and growth after testing

First of all, I personally feel that the current engagement between users' autonomy and AI avatars is not strong enough. There are not enough prompts or features to encourage users to share with their AI avatars, and AI avatars face obstacles in autonomous social interactions and messaging. Currently, the interaction rate of AI avatars is a bit low.
Of course, we could also adopt a logic where AI avatars guess the message sender for recognition verification, but the guidance in this area is not strong enough, and there is even no dashboard to review AI avatar past behaviors and operations. The core product logic currently revolves around AI avatar messaging human users and filtering or converting them. Without guiding humans to go online, it’s hard to generate long-term retention effects.
Besides social exploration, AI avatars can also help humans complete some daily or social small tasks. This is an area not yet explored in the product, but I personally see it as necessary. For example:
- Helping me send messages to friends at set times (please help me say good night to my friends every night at 12:00, please help me send birthday wishes to my friend X on X month X day)
- Completing simple tasks based on human needs (for example, organizing today’s to-do list and reminding at scheduled times, or continuing to explore replying to friends’ messages based on human schedules, such as “My owner is in a meeting…”)
These task prompts can also enhance alignment between AI avatars and humans, encouraging users to actively engage.
And a small point: currently, growth mainly relies on invitation code sharing and business card sharing, which are actually happening simultaneously. The slogan on the business card feels not direct enough; “Elys is a new generation social network where humans and AI coexist” is the positioning, but as a primary growth channel, it doesn’t directly attract users’ curiosity about exploring AI avatars.
The core question to consider is still: why do we need AI avatars? What can AI avatars help humans do?