If Facebook and Instagram proved something it’s that you either need dancing half-naked teenagers or conspiracy theories on your network to keep the engagement.
Show HN: What do you think of my new social app?
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#92Syncing contacts from my phone is a hard no even from established companies -- there's just way too much potential for abuse. An unknown individual wanting this screams scam. But let's assume for the moment that you aren't running a contact harvesting scam... I hardly use Facebook and I'm very particular about who I add on there. I actually go back and remove people I don't interact with or who create noise --I want…
I can understand the hesitation, it's something we'll consider changing back or making opt-in. Thanks for the grace there, and that's a problem we are solving. You might have X contacts on Circles but you're only going to see from those you have placed in a circle. So only content from people you actually want to see from. In terms of syncing contacts, we don't store any contact book information on our servers. We pa…
We pass through the contact book to see if a user exists there, we return them back as a connection. If not we return them as someone you can invite.
Do you log who someone has looked up in Circles when they join? If you do then you could trivially reconstruct someone's contact book.
That's what Facebook were found to be doing, except they were actually creating 'shadow profiles' for the contacts.
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#93What would you do when you cannot find monetization path like Path did?
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#94My close circle has settled on HalloApp, because we mostly want to share pictures of our adventures, kids and dogs. We don't really need/want to "chat" (I fully realize lots of people do). That said, we're all a bit of tired of trying out new social apps.
That's cool, I've never heard of HalloApp but just downloaded! Bar the chat function, how are you finding it?
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#95Congrats on successfully switching to a new field, and the success of your first product. Both are difficult feats to pull off.
I'd be interested in some comparisons between Signal Group Chats and this app. I understand they're not a 1:1 but could be opportunity for useful contrast. Particularly for privacy concerns, e.g. how Signal is unable to assist LEOs. Not that I'm up to no good, but it is interesting.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the comment. Having an FAQ would have been a nice way to cover this as it seems you're not the only one! We plan to monetise through paid premium features, none of which have been included in the first public version of the product. So previously didn't think it was relevant to talk monetisation!
I swear I am not trying to be a jerk, but I have heard this way too many times but have never seen this succeed in a way which adds to the service. Most of the times the paid premium feature is "no ads" or less wait times etc. Especially for a social networks, I can't even imagine what feature you can build which will make me pay you to be in touch with my friends. One point against my argument might be reddit gold k…
That's a solid point and hence why we've been reluctant to set out a future monetisation strategy. However...
In terms of monetising utility, Beeper/Texts.com seem to be getting a lot of attention, where they charge 10$ a month for their interoperable chat service. People seem to be happy to pay to have a centralised client for all their chats.
Otherwise as you've mentioned you have status signals, which is the case for Twitter Blue too. There's also the dating apps.
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#97If Facebook and Instagram proved something it’s that you either need dancing half-naked teenagers or conspiracy theories on your network to keep the engagement.
Ha. You've made a point there. Still waiting to be disproved in US/EU... Although WeChat is a great app and it's done insanely great (however they have added some weird TikTok like features recently).
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#98What would you do when you cannot find monetization path like Path did?
Well if we can't find monetisation that's a problem. I think we're beyond 2010 though, and people are much more open to paying for signal based information as shown by Substack, Twitter Blue, Discord Nitro, Bumble and other services.
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#99I'd love to learn how you are handling media/photo storage from both a technical and practical perspective. Some questions that come to mind: are you using a dedicated service or did you build it yourself? Are you using a CDN? How do you plan to deal with abusive content and the liability that comes with storing photos?
I am also working on an app where hosting photos would be a nice feature - but the risk/undertaking without proper and potentially expensive infrastructure is daunting.
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#100I'm a big fan of people trying to make new social networks, but personally I'm not interested in any new system not built on open protocols. Otherwise incentives are such that it's just going to turn into Facebook eventually.
I'm also very interested in open protocols, like Matrix and DeSo. However I disagree that everything has to turn into a media behemoth like Facebook. You make what you measure.