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You've just triggered my midlife crisis again. I'm 28, which is halfway to the grave :(.
I think you might even make it to 60 if you stop smoking, drinking and start exercising more!
I think this is significantly better than what Google did with Google Glass. It's better because it focuses on the one thing that is really easy to do well. It does not try to do everything at once. It doesn't try to give you apps in your glasses and everything under the sun. This is the right approach to products. Do one thing but do that well. Before you criticize me think back to the original iPhone, it didn't sta…
Don't buy this do one thing and well for a second. Using your own example: Before the iPhone, you had seperate: GPS Camera Flashlight MP3 Player and many other things With the iPhone, you got all of these and a nice compact package that you could carry with you at all times. Thats not to say feature creep can't be a problem, but more that sticking to hard and fast rules like 'do one thing but do that well' is largely…
I think this is brilliant. Even the press details seem perfectly crafted, with one article referencing Evan's "supermodel girlfriend." Snapchat can win here based on brand alone. The hardware features are a plus, but they're going to sell a lifestyle. Think GoPro + Versace. Commenters here are caught up in the tech. It's not the tech. Get a few celebrities in these, people will buy them and barely use the recording f…
Remind me to read this in a year. Or a week.
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If Snapchat is able to sell this product to only 5% of their 150M userbase that's 7.5M * $130 = 1B in revenue. Then they diversify their future product line somehow and keep selling to the other 95% of their users. Forget a re-monetization strategy for ads - ads make a product worse and it is refreshing that there may be another way for VC-backed companies to monetize.
Snapchat only has a userbase because it's an application that runs on a cell phone.
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As part of the audience it's catered to, it absolutely looks ridiculous. The question is, is it useful/interesting/popular/trendy enough to warrant that ridiculousness? It'll depend on how they market it. My opinion is that Snapchat is pretty good already, so why would I need this? Hence my analysis is that it would be difficult for Snap to market this product effectively without cannibalizing their existing product,…
Does the typical snapchat user hang out on HN? When I think of snapchats core audience I think 18 year olds who are "super social" and care a lot about fashion and "new stuff". Not saying it can't overlap, but still.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6naWlVjcIM
Genius!
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These glasses are going to be a huge hit thanks to their style. The main userbase of snapchat are product-hungy 12-25 year olds without much conviction; they'll jump at the chance to get a product that looks cool and represents their favourite timesink. I am very impressed with this move because it gives Snapchat a supplement to ad-based revenue. I hope this makes them a lot of money.
I do think it will be a lot more successful than most here think. First off, Snapchat (Snap?) isn't Google - their brands are completely different at least among the target audience. Glasses of some sort are inevitably going to be a fashion accessory with extra functionality, and Google is just too uncool. They are the company that wants to knows everything - every interaction refreshes that impression, from Street V…
Exactly why comparisons to google glass miss the point. Totally different products and userbases
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The above three comments to me summerise what has qualified as American Innovation for the last 15-20 years. When you are surrounded by the superficial, building things for the superficial what else can you produce other than the superficial. It is sad as hell to watch. It isn't ironic to me that Trump is going to be leading this bunch of innovators soon.
A few of the more significant American innovations in the last 15-20 years: -CRISPR, gene editing -iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc. -re-usable space rockets (Spacex and Blue Origin) -IBM's Watson and Deep Blue, Google's AlphaGo -LIGO's detection of gravitational waves -MIT's improvements in lithium ion technology -NASA's exploratory discoveries on Mars, Mercury, Pluto, Saturn, etc. -Google -Wikipedia -Facebook -Tesla…
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As a young person (age of the CEO of snapchat), I say, yes they fucking can.
26 is young now ?
26 is young for me now, even if that 26 yo person has a couple of children that think that their parents are as old as me.