review - BIP channel selection - alignment date 2026-06-29
Draft Stonk Positioning BIP Channel Selection
This Build-In-Public page is linked to alignment/positioning-draft-stonk.html. It only asks which public channels should be considered for source-safe public content based on the positioning synthesis. It does not draft posts, approve final BIP content, publish externally, or write canonical positioning.
Source Basis
The normal synthesis page proposes a moderate-confidence, pre-product market positioning: Draft Stonk is a social fantasy stock draft game that turns market opinions into quick, fair, no-money contests. The public-safe BIP angle must preserve the caveats: no customer validation yet, no legal advice, no investment advice, no prize/gambling language, and no claims that Draft Stonk is first, only, proven, or launched.
Research lesson: the strongest position is not "stock simulator," but "settle market takes with a no-money fantasy draft."
Medium. The category is hypothesized, customer language is untested, and financial/compliance-adjacent wording needs care.
Best for founder/build-in-public audiences interested in category strategy, product research, and early positioning tradeoffs.
Ranked Target Channels
| Rank | Channel | Status | Source Basis | Fit Rationale | Claim Risk | Non-Recommended Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recommended | Positioning synthesis is a professional product-strategy milestone. | Best fit for a careful research/process post aimed at founders, product operators, and positioning-minded readers. | Medium | Not applicable. | |
| 2 | X / Bluesky / Threads | optional | The synthesis has a concise category insight but needs caveats. | Works for a short lesson about avoiding simulator framing, but nuance can be lost in short posts. | Medium-high | Optional because the no-advice and pre-product caveats are easier to mishandle in short-form. |
| 3 | Mastodon | optional | Same concise category insight as short text networks. | Can work for a careful builder-process note if audience overlap exists. | Medium | Optional because channel reach and fit are uncertain. |
| 4 | not-now | Product is pre-launch, compliance-adjacent, and not yet customer-validated. | Subreddit norms can be hostile to premature product promotion or finance-adjacent claims. | High | Not now until a specific community, permission context, and source-safe post angle are chosen. | |
| 5 | Hacker News | not-now | Positioning research is not yet a shipped technical artifact. | HN fit is weak without a demo, technical write-up, or unusually strong research lesson. | Medium-high | Not now until there is a concrete prototype or technical artifact. |
| 6 | YouTube / TikTok / Reels / Shorts | not-now | No visual prototype or customer story exists yet. | Video would need more asset work and tighter claim-safety review. | High | Not now until a playable prototype, visual story, or approved script exists. |
Target Channel Gate
Approve, reject, edit, or flag the ranked channel set. Recommended channels are preselected. This approval only authorizes the next BIP step to load relevant channel conventions and draft source-safe content for the selected channels; it is not final BIP approval.
X / Bluesky / Threads
Mastodon
Hacker News
YouTube / TikTok / Reels / Shorts
Compile Responses
Required questions remaining:
This YAML approves only target channel selection. It may set approval_status: ready-for-agent-review and bip_channel_selection_status: ready-for-agent-review, but it intentionally does not set bip_approval_status.