Product design question

How would you design an app for family tree with a fun social factor?

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What this question tests

Creative product design combining a personal, sentimental use case with a viral, social mechanic, tested end to end.

Clarify the target user: casual users curious about ancestry versus serious genealogy hobbyists.
Identify the core job: building and visualizing a family tree easily, then sharing it with relatives.
Identify the fun social factor: collaborative building, where relatives add branches and stories together.
Prioritize collaborative editing as the key viral loop, since it naturally invites more family members in.
Propose features like shared story prompts, photo tagging, and a visual timeline relatives can contribute to.
Define success with average family members joined per tree and stories or photos added per month.

Identifies collaboration as the specific viral mechanic, since a tree with no other contributors is much less compelling.
Proposes concrete features, shared story prompts and photo tagging, not a vague 'make it fun'.
Sets a viral loop metric, family members invited per tree, tied directly to the growth mechanic.
Distinguishes casual users from serious genealogists, since serious hobbyists need deeper record search tools.

Designs a solo, non collaborative tool that misses the explicitly requested social factor.
Proposes no clear metric to show the social loop is actually working.

How would you handle sensitive family information, like estranged relatives?
How would you monetize this without hurting the emotional, personal nature of the product?
How would you make this appealing to younger users who might not care about genealogy yet?