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"Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by Mystalic »

A few months ago, I ran into the Bump team on Castro street in Mountain View. They were grabbing random people walking by their table, testing the user flow of this product with a demo.

Two lessons from that:

1) Gather user feedback all the time, at any stage. Meet customers, send out surveys, interview users, whatever it takes to get the data.

2) Simplify! Your product needs to be as frictionless as possible (I think I repeated this like 7 times when I tried the demo). It's two steps to use the new Bump photo app -- that's easy for a user to understand.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

#102

Post by Karunamon »

officemonkey wrote: post #90
tewks wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are a cloud based solution that takes privacy very seriously. We do not share your personal information with people or services you don't want. Our privacy policy is available both in the app and online: http://bu.mp/privacy

>We do not share your personal information with people or services you don't want. Clearly that's incorrect, because the complainer didn't want you to have his personal information. Also the statement "We may use your Personal Information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence" clearly gives you the right to sell his…

Isn't it kind of a given that when you give your email address to a service, that you are allowing that service to contact you?

Otherwise what's the point of having the address?

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

#103

Post by MaxGabriel »

stcredzero wrote: post #98
mistercow wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's more complicated than that though. A few months back when they removed those features, they used that spin to turn it into some free publicity that made it sound like they were unconventionally responding to their users. Now they're stuck with that lie, which I'm sure rubs a lot of people the wrong way, but I'll bet it was worth it just to have their name in some memorable headlines.

Now they're stuck with that lie, which I'm sure rubs a lot of people the wrong way, but I'll bet it was worth it just to have their name in some memorable headlines. Not only are they playing fast and loose with insecure passing of private data, they also tell their users lies? Maybe deleting their app was the right choice for me.

That's not a lie. I've read through several hundred bump reviews and their app had very poor ratings from users who expected full app/music sharing. It was misleading in the first place to not give indications of limitations on those features, though. Edit: I had looked after Bump 3.0 and they had tons of 1 star reviews for removing the features, but now they're up to 4.5 stars, whereas they had ~2.5 on Bump 2.0

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

#104

Post by raphman »

Karunamon wrote: post #102
officemonkey wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>We do not share your personal information with people or services you don't want. Clearly that's incorrect, because the complainer didn't want you to have his personal information. Also the statement "We may use your Personal Information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence" clearly gives you the right to sell his…

Isn't it kind of a given that when you give your email address to a service, that you are allowing that service to contact you? Otherwise what's the point of having the address?

I haven't used this app but I think the parent had expected that the data he entered would be confined to the application, not sent to the app developer. Simple analogy: Would you expect Microsoft to harvest every e-mail address you enter into Outlook?

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

#106

Post by tjoff »

potatolicious wrote: post #75
tewks wrote: post #57

Want to build magic like this into your own iOS or Android app? Try out our brand new, super fast APIs: https://github.com/bumptech/bump-api-ios https://github.com/bumptech/bump-api-android Email me if you have any questions: tg@bu.mp

Some feedback: I just filled out my virtual card with my contact info, and suddenly got an email from you guys in my inbox. I didn't sign up for an account or anything. IMO this is pretty shitty - I put this information into the app to send to other people, not so Bump can email me. And now I feel iffy putting other data into the app - Bump is not strictly the data exchange platform I thought it was. This is a violat…

"Please try again. Bump works better if you enable location on your browser."

Seems like bump works better without enabling location, maybe because I prefer it to fail rather than to spy on me. Talk about not failing gracefully.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

#107

Post by brown9-2 »

citricsquid wrote: post #8

Whoever designed this page: this is a clever idea, the ideal goal (I assume) is for it to be spread around ("hey, did you see this neat photo uploader thing?") in which case why doesn't it link me to the app for download? I don't have bump, I want to try this idea... so I have to work out what the site url is and then go and find the app myself. Why not a "don't have bump? download here!" link?

In addition the page doesn't really tell you what will happen or how it will work until you install Bump and try it out.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

#108

Post by pbhjpbhj »

petercooper wrote: post #43

Since the topic has come up, one way to reduce collisions with all geolocation turned off would be to request the user tap a certain key (or even two keys in succession) with the phone instead of just the space bar.

Or presumably tap the spacebar twice (or more) - giving an interval for matching - which would avoid having to consider key positions and mishits and alternate keyboards and such.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

#110

Post by Karunamon »

raphman wrote: post #104
Karunamon wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't it kind of a given that when you give your email address to a service, that you are allowing that service to contact you? Otherwise what's the point of having the address?

I haven't used this app but I think the parent had expected that the data he entered would be confined to the application, not sent to the app developer. Simple analogy: Would you expect Microsoft to harvest every e-mail address you enter into Outlook?

Outlook is an application, not a web connected service, though. If I enter my email address when signing up for, say, Office Live, I'd expect to see a Microsoft email in my inbox every now and then.
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