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The bigger question is what is their business model? Same as fb, to sell ads?
You also get access to a lot of user information. Performing analytics on user content gives you even more information. Information means $$.
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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.
The website where you share content based on your interests is called Tumblr. It solves the personas problem too.
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Why would a web version be better than an app if you're using it on a phone? (Honest question, I'm just curious.) Most people say they dislike app clutter, but then they have to keep a browser bookmark (or bookmark icon) anyway, which is the same amount of clutter. The only reason I can see is that you'd have one less app annoying you with updates, but a browser version has its own set of problems--e.g. unreliable ma…
Apps have access to things on your phone that web pages do not. Like he mentioned, web pages can't send push notifications. To the best of my knowledge, web pages can't run in the background. Web pages will also work on any device, even Windows Phone or Firefox OS or WebOS or Blackberry, etc. I don't have the Facebook app installed on my phone. Not for privacy reasons, not because the web page is better, but because…
I'm echoing what others are saying: no web version means I won't bother at all. My phone has access to multiple great browsers. Building a good lightweight web app means I can access the content from anywhere without having to deal with annoyances of push notifications or (as much) creepy tracking. My favorite example of a mobile web app is currently Twitter Mobile [0]. I even like using it from my desktop. It's very…
Good choice, I've just tried their Android version and it's absolute bug-city to the extent that I'm unsure if they engaged in any real Android user testing / dog fooding at all.
In onboarding, the crop function simply did not work at all, showing a hyper-zoomed version of the image and then discarding the view when creating the final image.
In onboarding, twice (in three minutes total of usage) I was presented with a totally white screen. No UI. No back button functionality. Nothing on screen. Nothing to do. Only option: force close the app. It appears to happen after EVERY single step in onboarding is complete. Once after photo/basic profile, once after location.
Yes, I was required to force close the app _twice_ in three minutes of usage.
Criticism: Only 5 "personas"? Really? I was forced to unselect a number subjects very dear to me because apparently I'm too diverse for a social network????
And now the "join personas" button is failing, it attempts to bring up the onboarding menu but fails, dropping back to the already-completed personas menu over and over. I'll force close the app myself.
If you wanted free QA, you could have at least been honest with us about this being a total beta test. I wonder if the developers are in this thread. I bet they all use iPhone...
But since this is apparently released software, as a tester and developer myself I am deeply concerned with the state of your backend, based on the quality of your front end development.
I wonder how public this is? I've been thinking a lot about social networks recently, and what i want (as far as i can tell) is the ability to conversationally share with a group, but in an either private or ephemeral manner. The goal of ephemeral being, i don't like the permanency of the web. I want to join twitter, following tags and/or individuals i like, but i don't want anything i say to be locked in time. I'd l…
Something like Snapchat for text only would be amazing. You post a thought, or maybe a link to an article. People can do the typical like / comment stuff. If a post doesn't receive any comments for 48 hours it is deleted from your profile and other people's feeds.
Finally get it installed, and there's nothing in the home area but bad gamification.
If it _has_ to have gamification it should be linked-in style, tracking profile completeness. But there is no way I'm installing a social game on my phone. The social connections should be their own reward.
I'd love to have a new social platform to meet people and connect with old friends without the creepiness of FB. Just basic communication fabric to share & communicate. This isn't that.
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> people in developing countries who might not have access to a smartphone I live across a river from Burma, and I can tell you it's at least an order of magnitude easier for people there to get access to a smartphone than a desktop or laptop. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-fa... I mean, I agree that it's a deal-killer for people like you and me, but the idea that it would make it less suit…
I live in a first-world country, I do have an Android phone, but I'm always out of internal storage and need to delete apps. Most people in my friends/family circle are in the same situation. So even if we have Android, services based exclusively on mobile apps have an accessibility problem for us. I suppose this problem will be larger in places like Burma, where smartphones will be cheaper and older on average.