Human need
A useful mod does not spread by existing. Players must understand it instantly, trust it, install it where they already manage Minecraft, and naturally bring a friend.
Outcome
Connect Share launches through a staged, measurable program that earns modpack and creator adoption while optimizing successful shared play rather than vanity downloads.
Acceptance criteria
- Publish polished, consistent Modrinth, CurseForge, and GitHub pages with a sub-30-second demonstration of invite-to-world success.
- State the promise consistently: “Install once. See your friends. Join whatever they are playing. No server setup.”
- Document modpack redistribution, dependencies, privacy, security, support, and compatibility in plain language.
- Provide a creator/modpack kit with approved assets, short explanations, pack metadata, changelog feeds, and reproducible release links.
- Recruit a staged beta across vanilla-like play, major modpacks, offline profiles, different regions, and non-technical friend pairs.
- Establish a fast support and regression loop with secret-safe diagnostics and published known issues.
- Localize marketplace and core in-game journeys for the languages covering the largest reachable player populations.
- Offer privacy-preserving opt-in metrics for invite-to-join success, join time, route outcome, actionable recovery, repeat friend-pair sessions, crash-free sessions, and install source.
- Never collect friend graphs, invitation payloads, endpoint tokens, private keys, IPs, chat, world contents, or full mod inventories.
- Run creator and marketplace experiments only after reliability and fallback capacity gates pass.
- Define launch, pause, rollback, and graduation criteria before each rollout stage.
Product metric
Successful joins and retained friend pairs attributable to each installation source, modpack, creator cohort, and invite loop—not raw downloads alone.
Parent: #93
Human need
A useful mod does not spread by existing. Players must understand it instantly, trust it, install it where they already manage Minecraft, and naturally bring a friend.
Outcome
Connect Share launches through a staged, measurable program that earns modpack and creator adoption while optimizing successful shared play rather than vanity downloads.
Acceptance criteria
Product metric
Successful joins and retained friend pairs attributable to each installation source, modpack, creator cohort, and invite loop—not raw downloads alone.
Parent: #93