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Peach’s Most Interesting Feature, the Hybrid Command Line

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Re: Peach’s Most Interesting Feature, the Hybrid Command Line

#11

Post by pbreit »

jobu wrote: post #8

Am I missing something? This looks like they bundled a subset of Slack's features and called it a social network. Typing "GIF," for instance, lets users search for the appropriate media to post Seems a lot like /giphy

You're missing the whole thing. For starters, Slack is for work and Peach is for personal. But I think before you dismiss something as "isn't it just x plus y?" you need to take a little bit more time and thinking to try and figure out what the product designers are trying to achieve and how.

Re: Peach’s Most Interesting Feature, the Hybrid Command Line

#12

Post by thwarted »

pbreit wrote: post #11
jobu wrote: post #8

Am I missing something? This looks like they bundled a subset of Slack's features and called it a social network. Typing "GIF," for instance, lets users search for the appropriate media to post Seems a lot like /giphy

You're missing the whole thing. For starters, Slack is for work and Peach is for personal. But I think before you dismiss something as "isn't it just x plus y?" you need to take a little bit more time and thinking to try and figure out what the product designers are trying to achieve and how.

Maybe the product designers and product providers should be more explicit about how their product should be used and who their target demographic is, if they want a successful product, rather than making everyone "figure out" what they are trying to achieve and how.

Re: Peach’s Most Interesting Feature, the Hybrid Command Line

#13

Post by w1ntermute »

minimaxir wrote: post #7
w1ntermute wrote: post #5

Death of Peach: An eerie echo of Meerkat’s collapse [0] > A messaging app called Peach triggered a media maelstrom on Friday afternoon, peaked at No. 85 on the U.S. iPhone downloads chart on Saturday, and started declining on Sunday, slipping to No. 129 by Sunday at 1:00 p.m. The tepid peak performance and an early decline are vastly significant considering the heavy tech media coverage surrounding the app. > Because…

BGR linkbait aside, the amount of positive attention Peach has been receiving is suspicious , even for a startup from a founder of a successful startup. Meerkat is a surprisingly good comparison.

Consumer tech is stuffed to the gills with astroturfing. It's best to take anything written by tech bloggers with numerous grains of salt.

Re: Peach’s Most Interesting Feature, the Hybrid Command Line

#14

Post by pbreit »

w1ntermute wrote: post #5

Death of Peach: An eerie echo of Meerkat’s collapse [0] > A messaging app called Peach triggered a media maelstrom on Friday afternoon, peaked at No. 85 on the U.S. iPhone downloads chart on Saturday, and started declining on Sunday, slipping to No. 129 by Sunday at 1:00 p.m. The tepid peak performance and an early decline are vastly significant considering the heavy tech media coverage surrounding the app. > Because…

If you're gonna read stuff like that, understand that it probably makes you dumber. At least, posting it makes you look dumber. Calling something a "turkey" after a day is as dumb as calling it an "x killer". Things like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, etc take years to become successful.

Re: Peach’s Most Interesting Feature, the Hybrid Command Line

#15

Post by pbreit »

thwarted wrote: post #12
pbreit wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're missing the whole thing. For starters, Slack is for work and Peach is for personal. But I think before you dismiss something as "isn't it just x plus y?" you need to take a little bit more time and thinking to try and figure out what the product designers are trying to achieve and how.

Maybe the product designers and product providers should be more explicit about how their product should be used and who their target demographic is, if they want a successful product, rather than making everyone "figure out" what they are trying to achieve and how.

"Figuring it out" might be the point. You do realize that you are referring to some of the very few people who have actually already built an amazingly successful product.

Re: Peach’s Most Interesting Feature, the Hybrid Command Line

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Post by [deleted] »

pbreit wrote: post #14
w1ntermute wrote: post #5

Death of Peach: An eerie echo of Meerkat’s collapse [0] > A messaging app called Peach triggered a media maelstrom on Friday afternoon, peaked at No. 85 on the U.S. iPhone downloads chart on Saturday, and started declining on Sunday, slipping to No. 129 by Sunday at 1:00 p.m. The tepid peak performance and an early decline are vastly significant considering the heavy tech media coverage surrounding the app. > Because…

If you're gonna read stuff like that, understand that it probably makes you dumber. At least, posting it makes you look dumber. Calling something a "turkey" after a day is as dumb as calling it an "x killer". Things like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, etc take years to become successful.

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Re: Peach’s Most Interesting Feature, the Hybrid Command Line

#17

Post by skciva »

w1ntermute wrote: post #5

Death of Peach: An eerie echo of Meerkat’s collapse [0] > A messaging app called Peach triggered a media maelstrom on Friday afternoon, peaked at No. 85 on the U.S. iPhone downloads chart on Saturday, and started declining on Sunday, slipping to No. 129 by Sunday at 1:00 p.m. The tepid peak performance and an early decline are vastly significant considering the heavy tech media coverage surrounding the app. > Because…

Wasn't Meerkat done in by the fact that Twitter launched Periscope around the same time? Twitter cut Meerkat's access to the API at SXSW (mid March), and published Periscope to the iOS App Store in late March.

On top of this, I've noticed some celebrities I follow on Twitter using Periscope and advertising it to their feeds, which I wouldn't be surprised to find out is fueled by some form of payment from Twitter.

I can't comment on Peach, but I get the feeling Meerkat's demise was because they were out muscled by Twitter.

Re: Peach’s Most Interesting Feature, the Hybrid Command Line

#18

Post by numair »

pbreit wrote: post #14
w1ntermute wrote: post #5

Death of Peach: An eerie echo of Meerkat’s collapse [0] > A messaging app called Peach triggered a media maelstrom on Friday afternoon, peaked at No. 85 on the U.S. iPhone downloads chart on Saturday, and started declining on Sunday, slipping to No. 129 by Sunday at 1:00 p.m. The tepid peak performance and an early decline are vastly significant considering the heavy tech media coverage surrounding the app. > Because…

If you're gonna read stuff like that, understand that it probably makes you dumber. At least, posting it makes you look dumber. Calling something a "turkey" after a day is as dumb as calling it an "x killer". Things like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, etc take years to become successful.

Your response is incredibly off-base. The author of the BGR article is pretty spot-on in his analysis. If you look at the author's previous articles, he has been critical, but accurate. In any case, even if his 16 years of experience in the mobile industry (I looked him up) don't allow him to make accurate one-day analyses, a different viewpoint is beneficial to everyone's thought process.

There is absolutely nothing "dumb" about bringing up critical viewpoints. Shooting them down without giving them any thought, however...

Re: Peach’s Most Interesting Feature, the Hybrid Command Line

#19

Post by jobu »

pbreit wrote: post #11
jobu wrote: post #8

Am I missing something? This looks like they bundled a subset of Slack's features and called it a social network. Typing "GIF," for instance, lets users search for the appropriate media to post Seems a lot like /giphy

You're missing the whole thing. For starters, Slack is for work and Peach is for personal. But I think before you dismiss something as "isn't it just x plus y?" you need to take a little bit more time and thinking to try and figure out what the product designers are trying to achieve and how.

That's rather arbitrary. Lots of people use Slack for both work and personal.

The deeper I look and more I think about Peach, the more it looks like a messaging app that lost it's vision. I feel the same way about Snapchat lately too, but somehow they still have a multi-billion dollar valuation, so I'm obviously not the best one to rate a company/app like Peach.

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