How do brand new social media platforms like this gather so many users so quickly?
Spending investor money on advertisements
Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
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#72I wonder how much it costs to get a PR piece like this on TechCrunch. Does anyone know?
I wonder how much it cost to get this many upvotes on HN as well?
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#73I like the idea, but 2 things. 1) where did they get the prices of $4.99 a week? Facebook's average revenue per user per quarter is ~$25. That's approximately $1.50 a week, for their most profitable section. Elsewhere, FB makes $6 ARPU per quarter, or around 37¢ a week. I'd be willing to pay $1 a month for a social network if it manages to get around the network effects etc. but ~$20(!) for something Facebook enables…
$4.99 a week has to be a joke, right? $20 a month is about double what I pay for Netflix and half of my phone bill. Just to send messages to people? I'm sure the article is leaving things out but as of right now I don't get this at all.
I'll agree it's a lot, but I wouldn't compare it to Netflix, Tinder is probably a closer comparable. Our pricing is also quite high, justification to employees who felt our price was too high is that content creation platforms, or platforms where users engage with the content are able to charge more than content consumption platforms where the content is a commodity for the most part.
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#74> No pressure, no public commenting and no rejection Adults need to learn how to handle rejection. It's so essential to learning how to be happy in the real world. People who are lonely because they fear rejection need to fix the fear of rejection part before they will actually experience a real friendship. Being open with each other is essential to friendship, and being open risks rejection. Friendship isn't a indiv…
This is assuming that the fear of rejection is wrong. For some people, it's a valid concern.
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#75It's unfortunate they couldn't get the name/domain/trademark for Friendster
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It. Takes. Time. That's it. There's no shortcut There is - being in deep shit together for a brief time. The deeper the shit the shorter the time needed for a true friendship.
Announcing my new app: Shittr. You pay me $1000, and I will put you, alongside two other people, through a miserable grind of an experience. One of you will not survive; the other two will form a long-lasting bond.
People pay a lot less for that, see https://www.goruck.com/find-an-event/
(minus the death part)
Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
#77Installed.
uploaded a picture.
made a mistake of putting email instead of name.
Tried to change it - can't
contacted support
got a notification: "people think you might be bot"
uninstalled.
Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
#78I like the idea, but 2 things. 1) where did they get the prices of $4.99 a week? Facebook's average revenue per user per quarter is ~$25. That's approximately $1.50 a week, for their most profitable section. Elsewhere, FB makes $6 ARPU per quarter, or around 37¢ a week. I'd be willing to pay $1 a month for a social network if it manages to get around the network effects etc. but ~$20(!) for something Facebook enables…
$4.99 a week has to be a joke, right? $20 a month is about double what I pay for Netflix and half of my phone bill. Just to send messages to people? I'm sure the article is leaving things out but as of right now I don't get this at all.
I'm actually not sure its enough. It looks like the only play this service has is the "country club" model. You're not paying $5/week to get in, you're paying it to keep the people who can't/won't pay that much out.
The question I'd really like to find out the answer to is will average net trolls pay real money to troll?
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#79Ages ago I ran a phpbb site that initially followed this concept, but being community driven (I may have been a bit too friction-less), it quickly evolved into a community driven fetish/porn site. Every time I am tempted to create such a thing, I reflect back on how much work it was and lessons learned (about moderation requirements).
Hats off / kudos to anyone that can run something like this successfully at scale, as it is a lot of work and you can't make everyone happy. I hope it turns into something great.
Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
#80Ages ago I ran a phpbb site that initially followed this concept, but being community driven (I may have been a bit too friction-less), it quickly evolved into a community driven fetish/porn site. Every time I am tempted to create such a thing, I reflect back on how much work it was and lessons learned (about moderation requirements). Hats off / kudos to anyone that can run something like this successfully at scale,…
This may seem like an unusual question, but why does it matter what the subject matter became if the community was accepting and safe?