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Here's is Scoble's interview https://plus.google.com/u/1/111091089527727420853/posts/TAJu...
He's in the circle(s) of 500,000 people and when he posts a video it has 250 views after 9 hours... how can his click throughs to the video rate be so low.
* edit for typo.
The feed is confusing. It looks too much like Instagram, so it contradicts the idea that this is an app for sharing actions rather than just pictures.
The top activities are plankaday (what's that?), write, sleep, run, and meeting(!). None of those are too interesting. So, I'm not getting a feel for what is this app really good for? Why don't you show more activities rather than just the top 5?
The actions are not very specific, that's probably why they don't seem interesting to me.
I bet you get this a lot, but really, if I'm using Runkeeper or another similar app for my exercise tracking and sharing, why should I use didthis? One possible answer is to push actions to those apps (I haven't tried it if you already do).
The quality of the experience will probably go up dramatically if you choose to focus on a single type of action or community. Everyone keeps repeating this and from recent personal experience, it does seem true.
Social causes seem like a good one to go for, but the problem there is frequency of use. I doubt many people volunteer or donate more than a few days a year. This is the kind of app that people need to use at least once a day or it will die.
I like your deed of the day idea. It might be worth zooming in on. What if your app was totally based around that? Daily deeds?
Finally, you better not steal my contacts! If you do, start working on that apology letter right away.
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He's in the circle(s) of 500,000 people and when he posts a video it has 250 views after 9 hours... how can his click throughs to the video rate be so low.
Interesting observation. I'm looking at the stats right now & Scoble vs. HN is indeed an interesting battle to observe. It's bit, ummm, one-sided ... I'll do a post-launch blog post on this tomorrow.
Scoble is the poster child of "Social media", half-bit hacks who think they're "social media entrepreneurs" subscribe to his views (what he likes and dislikes) and follow/like his profiles on various sites (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) but the majority don't actually care about what he has to say, they just do it to validate their own position. "I'm a social media entrepreneur, I subscribe to Robert Scoble!" so while his numbers are impressive the amount of people who actually care about what he has to say is minimal.
It's the same "phenomena" that affects Techcrunch, take a look at their Twitter, they have 2 MILLION followers and yet when they post a link to a new article they've posted it gets ~500 clicks in a day. People subscribe to Scoble for the same reason they subscribe to Techcrunch: They want to show they are "with it" and are part of what Techcrunch and Scoble represent (modern media) but they don't really care about either of them individually.
Hacker news on the other hand is a community of people who come here to find things, if something is posted to Hacker news and get upvotes it's because people care about that post, it's not because they love hacker news.
Great job on launching. Some notes from first use of the app: The feed is confusing. It looks too much like Instagram, so it contradicts the idea that this is an app for sharing actions rather than just pictures. The top activities are plankaday (what's that?), write, sleep, run, and meeting(!). None of those are too interesting. So, I'm not getting a feel for what is this app really good for? Why don't you show more…
I'm painfully aware of the points you raise. Sometimes you just have to do a "Damn the torpedoes, full-speed ahead" launch. Timing & stuff.
To answer the other points you raise:
The feed will change totally. Less pictures, more "What did you do?" & "How did you do it?" ... in development, coming in one of the next updates.
The actions will become a lot more specific & self-explanatory in one of the next updates.
Right now the app is focussed too much on repetition (I do this x times per day) & because of that I agree it's kinda boring.
Deed of the day is a pretty fresh idea, we're still iterating on that & yes, it's something I would like to consider.
Grrr. Once again, this means nothing to me as a non-iOS/Android user. Not happy to see this trend continuing, are people not building websites any more? * edit for typo.
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What did you do to get Scoble to do an interview with you? Just a friendly email to him?
Scoble himself explains that on the Google+ post
By the way, PR people should take lessons from Denis. He not only drove a few hours to see me in Davos, but he taught me to sled, which was one of the highlights of my trip to the World Economic Forum. Of course no good deed goes unpunished because I beat him down the hill.