I was immediately reminded of the fiction podcast LifeAfter (or lif-e.af/ter as they like to style it, making it hard to search for). An audio-only social network is a major plot device, though obviously slightly contrived to give them an excuse for most of the action to happen verbally to make a good podcast. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lifeafter/id1045990056?m... Even your marketing is similar to that in the show.
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may I ask if others feel this way? My sharing this is because I think it's an important part of the story and why we created Currently, but I don't want it to have a "dark aura" around the app by any means. Does anyone else agree with the above sentiment?
Honestly, it was a bit jarring to read a comic portraying you as some kind of 'anti-rape hero' at the bottom of a page about a weird app. You didn't even tell us what happened to your friend! It seemed like you were just using her story to aggrandize yourself. What happened to her? How would she feel if she read this comic? Is she getting a slice of this pie too? It just seemed kind of exploitative and in comic form.…
She is doing well and gave me permission to share her story and this comic.
Thanks for the feedback, I'm definitely taking everything into consideration as far as where that comic should go
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
may I ask if others feel this way? My sharing this is because I think it's an important part of the story and why we created Currently, but I don't want it to have a "dark aura" around the app by any means. Does anyone else agree with the above sentiment?
I first saw this after you switched the default. My initial reaction was very positive, then the other page took something away from it. For me I think it's a case of intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation. The first page sounded like you were doing the app because it was a cool idea that will make people's lives better so you wanted to see it turn real. That's easy to get on board with. Then the second page says "and I'…
This is great feedback, thanks! I'm thinking of putting it into an FAQ page, would that work for you?
My worry is that if I put it into a blog post, eventually no one will see it due to the short term nature of blog post discovery.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
may I ask if others feel this way? My sharing this is because I think it's an important part of the story and why we created Currently, but I don't want it to have a "dark aura" around the app by any means. Does anyone else agree with the above sentiment?
I don't connect the "darkness" of the story to the app, no. I do agree that it is not a typical place to put a story like this, and I wonder how the friend feels about having what happened to her used in "your" story of starting a business. Can't really shake the feeling, because of its location, that the story is there to get me to try the app, which seems shifty. Worked, though, and I'm glad I read it since I wasn'…
My friend gave me full permission to use this story, but after seeing all of the feedback, I'm thinking of putting it into an FAQ.
Would you consider that a good spot for it?
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
may I ask if others feel this way? My sharing this is because I think it's an important part of the story and why we created Currently, but I don't want it to have a "dark aura" around the app by any means. Does anyone else agree with the above sentiment?
It's tricky, after I googled you and your other projects like 7DollarYear I understand a bit more about why you have this up front. But I agree with other commenters that bringing up this whole story on a page that is normally reserved to try and sell your product feels a bit exploitative, takes us through a dark emotional journey and we don't even learn about the end of your friend's story (so she feels like a prop)…
An About Us page is a great idea! Thanks! I'm thinking either that or an FAQ answering some of the questions we've gotten through Hacker News.
Also, I feel very exposed now that you know about the 7DollarYear :P
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#156This is awesome. Although the Android app has some rough edges it gives off a very personal and connecting vibe. I think the shades of blue and green you chose feel too cold for what the platform is supposed to be, the app feels very cold initially... but then this amazing thing happened: I started to listen to the Ocean. The Ocean to me feels like something from the movie "Her" (2013): these are other peoples storie…
Thanks so much for the feedback. I'm asking the developers about automatically removing blank waves. That seems like a big win. Otherwise we might have to have it as an option under "report" and rely on the community (at least initially) to mark a blank wave as blank.
As for the language barrier. Yes, we're going to be english only to begin with, then I think we'll make versions for other languages.
I'm trying to think of the best way to simply message this right now. Let me know if you have any great ideas.
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#157Not to be a jerk, but as a video guy, this promo video needs some work. 1. The Premiere Pro "Morph Cut" doesn't really work that well and can easily be spotted. See :38 for an example. Morph Cut Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOvDwiE0qSo 2. The tracking/compositing of the app on the phone screen is very crude. :59 3. The audio needs a lot of work. I'm on a laptop with no headphones, and I hear the bad ADR…
On a related note I was expecting to see you guys using the app in the video, it would be nice to see examples of real life use of it, Im not totally sure how/if I would use it
Would you prefer this video instead? It's more serious which is why I didn't use it.
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#158Could this be further segmented into types of audio? For instance, have a social network specifically for user-generated/recorded farts? Rank them in multiple dimensions (geolocation, time, genre)? Thoughts?
I've thought about a tagging system for topic, but to begin we're trying to keep everything as streamlined as possible (shortest amount of time between creating the story and having it out there).
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#159Wow. That's a genuinely neat idea. Not sure about the delivery because I don't have an IOS device anymore.
we're hoping to do a web-based version. Would this work for you?
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#160Next to the comments made by other users, it seems like the app just uploaded my address book without explicitly asking me. This was a really scary situation and resulted in an instant uninstall to hopefully stop it from uploading. Not the way to handle this.
Were you on android or iOS, I was pretty sure it requested access for both, but I'll look into it for sure!