57 comments and not one mentions Dunbar numbers. Surprising, I must say.
Path — Introducing The Personal Network
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#62I wonder how much of their funding they spent on the domain name. I kind of like the idea, and the world is becoming ripe for a simpler Facebook, but christ - I can only imagine the difficult conversations about why I didn't reciprocate when someone 'pathed' me. "Sorry, you're not in my top 50".
I would estimate 100-500k, or a stock deal at around 5%
closest comparable I found is routes.com for 100k
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#63So another photo sharing app but with some personal network theory wrapped around it in its limitations?
These guys have been working on this for a long time, and atm the app looks like a prototype. In the interim instagram and a dozen other services went out, launched, and gained traction.
You can talk about the network theory stuff but most users aren't interested in that
I hate being Mr Negative, I am just a bit underwhelmed considering the hype - these guys have already been covered a lot in the national mainstream press
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#64Overall I like the concept, but my main gripe is that if you don't have an iPhone the web-based service is useless. I can't add any friends even if I know their url - I can only hope they add me. I'd have thought letting people add friends by visiting their url on the website would be a reasonable feature of even the most basic MVP iteration. As it stands the web site is useless to non-iPhone users and so I don't see…
I agree. I couldn't work out how to add people - no import from Google or Facebook or whatever. While I do believe in release early, these guys may have blown it only because of how much attention they have (or had).
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with your reference to the 'Real Life Social Network', and I'd also point out that keeping your groups separate is a hard problem to solve. To execute, you have to have something that's easy, simple to use, opaque when you want it to be (and vice versa), and you have to model the way your groups see each other (or can they? Should they?). I'm very interested to see who finally manages to find the solution to…
What about a tab for each Path share group indicating which friends you share photos with? If you want to share photos with "work: medium-good friends" you can and insure that the "work: ok friends" or "family: mom's side" don't get the same post. I feel like the hard problem is not to keep groups separate, but to re-factor existing infrastructure to support separation and making it 'easy' for users.
And there's almost certainly content that you would want to share with multiple groups, but you'd then not want the feedback/comments from those individual groups to be visible across all groups.
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#66Would anyone care about this if it wasn't launched by highly visible Facebook alums? Quality should be judged on merit, not who made them. If there's magic here, somebody lift the kimono.
This may not have surfaced as quickly on HN if it wasn't launched by highly visible Facebook alums, but I read the post, installed the app, and setup an account before I saw this comment.
It all looks quality from here.
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#68The rationale for the 50 person limit is:
> Because your personal network is limited to your 50 closest friends and family, you can always trust that you can post any moment, no matter how personal.
But as others have pointed out, 50 is just an arbitrary number. There might be more than 50 people someone is happy to see a photo, or there might be less. For risque photos, someone may only want a subset of their friends to see it. A better system would be to allow users to have multiple overlapping subsets of visibility, with one being the default.
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#69The production quality here is really really good. However, I agree with the excellent presentation posted here a while ago 'The Real Life Social Network' ( http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... ) that the issue isn't number of people I want to share with. The issue is that the groups of people I want to share content with are completely separate. There are a number of pictures I would be ha…
I agree with your reference to the 'Real Life Social Network', and I'd also point out that keeping your groups separate is a hard problem to solve. To execute, you have to have something that's easy, simple to use, opaque when you want it to be (and vice versa), and you have to model the way your groups see each other (or can they? Should they?). I'm very interested to see who finally manages to find the solution to…
LiveJournal solved all these problems years ago (at least, I found it easy to use).
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