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Re: Show HN: Millow – Stay connected with your inner circle

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Post by jsherwani »

mcny wrote: post #9

Follow up question to the Facebook question should you answer no, how do you expect to pay for everything? How do you think you will be different from path? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=path&sort=byPopularity&prefix&... (Just to identify which path) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3563016

In the future, if we're able to help people make plans to meet up with their friends, we envision being able to help make reservations at local restaurants (also helping local economies thrive), and making a small amount of money from the restaurant. Unlike Facebook, we don't want hours of your attention — we want you to get in the app, and get out, and live your life with the people that matter.

If you were asking about our specific practices w.r.t. contacts, we only import 1 contact at a time when you pick one from your list, and if you prefer to not give access to your contact list, you can manually type in your contacts too.

Re: Show HN: Millow – Stay connected with your inner circle

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Post by kshatrea »

jsherwani wrote: post #55
kshatrea wrote: post #5

Here's my question off the bat: Facebook is known for using Onavo to find networks that take off and then buying them (I forget names - tbh was it?). I know of course this early in the process you don't know what the future holds, but are you open to acquisition by Facebook? I place a very high value on using the product depending on that answer.

Great question! Prior to Millow, I built Screenhero, which was then acquired by Slack (my team and I built Slack voice/video/screen sharing). Working at Slack was a great experience, and I love the company and the product (and use it with all my current projects, I have 14 Slack workspaces in my sidebar!). Why is this relevant to your question? For two reasons: 1) Financially, we (we're a husband & wife team) have a…

Thank you for the great and detailed answer. I feel very strongly about using Facebook and since this app would focus on people I am close to, a future FB acquisition would mean more of my info in FB’s hands. I support acquisitions, just that my personal trust matrix has an FB exclusion zone.

Re: Show HN: Millow – Stay connected with your inner circle

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Post by jsherwani »

kshatrea wrote: post #60
Aeolun wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone is not open to being aquired by Facebook until they get a $10B offer. Even if they say no now, that’s no guarantee for the future.

To be clear, I am not saying they shouldn’t be acquired - if they get acquired by Twitter/Microsoft/AANG I am totally going to be a supportive user. It is the F word I consider unworthy.

On acquisition, we would cease to be in charge of our destiny, whether by FB or by Twitter/MSFT/AANG [1]. If we're successful in our product & business strategy, we'll stay independent forever, and will monetize through restaurant reservations at local businesses when we help you make a plan to meet up with your friend. Glad to hear you'd be a supportive user even if we were acquired, but we'd like to keep a direct relationship with you ourselves and never be acquired :)

[1] https://stratechery.com/2018/instagrams-ceo/

Re: Show HN: Millow – Stay connected with your inner circle

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Post by jsherwani »

3chelon wrote: post #27

I don't know about anyone else, but my real friends are those I actually stay in touch with. I have their phone number, email address, whatever. The point is, I don't need another social network for that. Social networks always grow to include everyone you don't care about.

We aren't a social network. We're a productivity tool like your calendar app, with just a few product tweaks to help you stay connected to your close friends if you're having trouble doing so. If you're already in touch with everyone you want to be in touch with, that's awesome! :)

If you have some people in your life that you wish you were more in touch with, but aren't either because you feel you're too busy, or because of distance, that's where Millow can help.

Re: Show HN: Millow – Stay connected with your inner circle

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Post by milesward »

I think this is a great start. I like the scheduled time to connect, but I want the opposite: a notification that RIGHT NOW I'm free and if folks wanna yak I'm up for it. I sometimes find myself stuck in traffic, or driving way out to an airport, and I'd love to opportunistically fill that time with a great convo, but don't want to spam the world with my availability, or come off as rude (hey, i'll talk to anyone!); maybe sharing this smaller tight-friend community would allow that to not be weird :)

Re: Show HN: Millow – Stay connected with your inner circle

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Post by marssaxman »

milesward wrote: post #66

I think this is a great start. I like the scheduled time to connect, but I want the opposite: a notification that RIGHT NOW I'm free and if folks wanna yak I'm up for it. I sometimes find myself stuck in traffic, or driving way out to an airport, and I'd love to opportunistically fill that time with a great convo, but don't want to spam the world with my availability, or come off as rude (hey, i'll talk to anyone!);…

That was how my friend group used to employ Dodgeball, back before Google acquired it and sucked all the utility out. It was really magical, getting a constant stream of ambient, no-pressure invitations to random gatherings of friends.

Re: Show HN: Millow – Stay connected with your inner circle

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Post by jsherwani »

shrikant wrote: post #68

Looks good, and I really appreciate the "single player mode"! (My friends don't need to know that I'm socially inept enough to need an app like this...) I alos love the name, assuming it's from the Hindi word for "meet"?

Urdu/Hindi, yes!
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