While other news and social media platforms deliver stories after content is published, Soonfeed connects people to stories beforetime. We exist to tell the truth early and often.

Soonfeed is a unique concept, brand and community with no product, revenue or business model. It’s an independent and apolitical experiment resourced with my own team, cash and time. For the last 7 years I’ve worked alongside a steady stream of co-founders, partners and interns to build something that might be useful one day. This live blog is my attempt to figure out how to get there.

We have a mission.

We launched the #Soonfeed experiment in 2011 with no business model or mission. There’s still no business. But today there is a mission.

Soonfeed is an independent, no-profit media feed of European “stories beforetime”. Our mission is to tell the truth early and make it stick. pic.twitter.com/VfvdABIHT4

— Soonfeed Media ?? (@Soonfeed) May 7, 2018

We have an audience.

#Soonfeed serves a community of 35k followers & 1200 subscribers who want the story beforetime.

We find the truth before it’s widely shared, spun and hijacked by others.

We take you to conversations before they descend into #EUmyths & #fakenews. pic.twitter.com/e77gmpj2NQ

— Soonfeed Media ?? (@Soonfeed) May 7, 2018

From today you can submit your European story to our editors by adding the #Soonfeed hashtag to tweets. We’ll share & lend our support to your story if it meets 2 criteria:
1. Your agenda is to tell the truth early
2. The story is interesting for our community pic.twitter.com/qEOYyVjwm7

— Soonfeed Media ?? (@Soonfeed) May 7, 2018

We don’t have a product.

We’re looking for a co-founder to help us build a new #Soonfeed app.
Please share this with an app developer who loves the smell of statistical probability of failure in the morning. Take as much time as you need.
With thanks from @happeningo & the team. pic.twitter.com/nSoQZGx9nT

— Soonfeed Media ?? (@Soonfeed) June 8, 2018

In 2011 we conceived a kind of TV guide for moments on the web, where you discover, discuss & get alerts to happenings before they go live.
A tech co-founder helped us develop a website. It didn’t take off. We tried another dev. Twice. We failed to build a #Soonfeed users wanted. pic.twitter.com/zybeDkZyuL

— Soonfeed Media ?? (@Soonfeed) June 8, 2018

 We have a community to serve.

It took me 7 years to realise that #Soonfeed should be a community served by a tech solution, instead of the other way around.
So while we wait for the right tech co-founder to join us, we’d still like to help you connect with stories beforetime https://t.co/0ezGxHvy2b.

— Soonfeed Media ?? (@Soonfeed) June 8, 2018

If you want to build something special and love the smell of statistical probability of failure in the morning, let’s talk.

Richard Medic is founding chief of happeningo communicators and Soonfeed media.