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Re: Hello from Orkut

#221

It is strange for me in a era with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIN to imagine a new social network. Nothing against it, just sound as a enormous work to learn this soon-to-be-sensation of the internet. We keep looking for ways to improve our social relationship and skills, but in the end we still in from of a computer texting and prioritizing the people that is far, instead of the people that is clos…

This looks incredibly familiar to me. We basically tried the same idea at Bunch starting around 2012. The core idea was the same: connect people based around sharing content related to their interests. We made it into the thousands of users but ultimately weren't able to build enough traction. I think there still might be room for something like Hello.

Re: Hello from Orkut

#222
I tried the app. It's lame. Super childish UI, things cost coins (you buy more coins), looks like a quasi dating app for teens - there is actually no one there! And the Android app crashes a lot

Orkut was a million times better. Wonder how much they paid for hello.com

Re: Hello from Orkut

#224
"hello is the first social network built on loves, not likes." - Finally! Thank you Orkut for dedicating your life to the betterment of humanity.

Re: Hello from Orkut

#225
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> We even got married and had kids because of orkut. This has a totally different meaning in finnish as orkut means "orgasms" in casual speak.

Wait, so the guy's name means orgasms? Oh dear oh dear. This must cause problems for Turkish men in Finland. Kind of like the unfortunate Indian family name Dikshit.

The 'kut' part in 'orkut' means pussy (as in vagina) in Dutch. It was always clear to me from the get go why orkut wouldn't succeed in the Netherlands.

Re: Hello from Orkut

#226
No web version isn't the killer for me, its the terrible design.

The logo sucks, the app sucks, the colors are like Homer's makeup shotgun from the Simpsons. I downloaded it just because I always try new things. There isn't foresight as far as I see for username/URLification for web and its not focused on being photography of in progress life so its more like tumblr than it is instagram.

It looks like another social network built by engineers. The ONLY thing it has going for it is the URL, hello.com.

Re: Hello from Orkut

#227
No web version isn't the killer for me, its the terrible design.

The logo sucks, the app sucks, the colors are like Homer's makeup shotgun from the Simpsons. I downloaded it just because I always try new things. There isn't foresight as far as I see for username/URLification for web and its not focused on being photography of in progress life so its more like tumblr than it is instagram.

It looks like another social network built by engineers. The ONLY thing it has going for it is the URL, hello.com.

Re: Hello from Orkut

#228
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I have no idea who they think they're targeting but there's still a huge amount of friction involved in getting users to install an app. I don't think that a younger audience is immune to that.

Have you seen kids using Instagram and (especially) SnapChat? Younger generations have a very different relationship to their devices than someone born, say, in the 70's or 80's has. They care very little about websites.

Instagram and Snapchat made names for themselves by being novel, simple, immediate... You can explain in one sentence to your friends what's cool about them: "you can make your photos look great and see your friend's photos" and "you send quick selfies and they're deleted in like ten seconds so you don't have to care so much".

This hello.com seems like a much broader kind of "social network" that I would have a hard time getting any of my friends or family to try, I think.

Re: Hello from Orkut

#230
Is this a Google app? "hello.com" feels like very expensive domain! feels a bit downplayed. It would also explain the lack of desktop support.
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