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I woke up one morning in June with the idea for Petal. It felt like a flash at the time but it was in fact months of different thoughts and conversations about design, websites, social media, the internet, finally coming together into a possibility for action. I don’t need to reach millions, thousands, or even hundreds of people online, I just need a place where I can be myself among friends. A virtual living room shielded from corporations and media hustlers. Petal would be a community blog with no agenda. Global in proximity but local in scale and mindset.
Guidelines
Coming soon... patience please.
Timeline
I come across the Mughal Gardens in Delhi and realize websites are gardens too. At this point my thinking is limited to the relationship between design and content.
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I buy the book The Education of a Gardener by Russell Page and don’t finishing read it.
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While walking my dog around my neighborhood I discover “Amazing Garden”.
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I have a brief fantasy of joining but becoming a member seems competitive and admittedly I don’t know how to garden.
I visit experimental community, Arcosanti on the last day of 2017. They say “a single bell is a lonely bell” likely as an attempt to help sell more bells. Still, it does ring true.
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In May I launch a new version of my website with a blog intended to track my thoughts and projects in real time. I add posts a few times a month. It feels like shooting in the dark.
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On June 14 I wake up with the idea for Petal and text it to Laurel Schwulst.
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Later that day I purchase the domain petals.network and begin design and development.
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On July 1st I push the first tweet from @petal_updates making the project and its development public.
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August 17 Lily Bartle texts the P.I.S.S. thread that posting to the main feed on Instagram “literally feels like shooting in the dark”. I decide I will quit Instagram forever once Petal is up and running.
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September 9 I finish a working version of Petal and invite a core group of initial users for testing.
Credits
Petal is built on Kirby CMS and hosted by cdxs.ist. Comments are made possible by KirbyComments by Addpixel.