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Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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Post by bigiain »

srameshc wrote: post #17

I have thought about this problem a lot in the past and I feel the older you get the harder it becomes to make new friends. If you have moved to a new place then you loose all those connections slowly and it's a challenge to make new friends. At least that's what happened to me. And on top of that your financial status that defines who accepts you as a friend. Also how much you can afford and are willing to invest to…

> I feel the older you get the harder it becomes to make new friends.

While that's true, at least for me you also end up with some deep deep friendships that easily survive years or even decades apart, which are closer and more meaningful than most of the friendships with people you see daily/weekly.

Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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Post by ryandrake »

strict9 wrote: post #33
naming_the_user wrote: post #23

To me, this looks like a fantastic idea, and something that could be really useful in a niche, but I think it's going to fly over the head of a lot of folk because it's fairly obviously targeted at highly mobile, maybe HNWI's who do a lot of travel - it's not going to be useful for "most" people.

Similar vibes to lawmakers that have public hearings with airline execs and talk about air travel issues as if it's an issue American voters frequently think about. Most Americans travel 0-2 times per year. About half don't fly at all.

It's also like the news always summarizing the stock market even though ~40% of Americans hold no stock at all, even indirectly through mutual funds or retirement accounts[1].

1: https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...

Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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Post by bigiain »

aimazon wrote: post #11

Most people have a few friends and they’re in the same place. “My people” are in the same place today that they were in yesterday and will be again tomorrow. Most people prefer the inefficient and imperfect group chat because it’s personal. Most people can’t imagine anything worse than bringing more technology into their personal relationships. I’m sure this app is great for the small number of us that are fortunate…

> “My people” are in the same place today that they were in yesterday and will be again tomorrow.

"My people" are people who once were in that sort of temporal and geographic bubble, but are not necessarily local top me any more.

Some of the most important people in my life are spread around the globe, and we only get together in person once a year or maybe even once a decade (more of those lately, given global health stuff in the last half decade).

I bet almost everybody who's ever been to Burningman more than two or three times has the same sort of geographically distributed friend circles. Same as anybody who regularly goes to a specific conference (I have friends I originally met when I was going to The Perl Conference in the late 90's), or festival (I have a close cicrle of friend who mostly live 1000km away that I met/meet every year at a music festival).

Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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Post by _hao »

Name has no connection to the important Chinese philosopher Mozi[1] which was my first association. As for the value proposition of the app I personally don't see it. If I want to speak or catch up with friends - I message them and/or call them. I don't see how yet another app makes this easier.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozi

Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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Post by losteric »

_hao wrote: post #54

Name has no connection to the important Chinese philosopher Mozi[1] which was my first association. As for the value proposition of the app I personally don't see it. If I want to speak or catch up with friends - I message them and/or call them. I don't see how yet another app makes this easier. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozi

This seems to target people who are both highly mobile and have broad networks of mobile contacts.

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Post by busymom0 »

quest88 wrote: post #20
evbogue wrote: post #5

This kind of reminds me of the original version of the app called Color, where you'd see social posts organized by geo coordinates. Imagine being in a coffee shop and seeing a feed of every post and photo posted from within the coffee shop. The benefit being you could make friends in your area. Does anyone else remember this app? It came out around the same era as Path.

Isn't this bumble's bff mode?

With a LOT less users.

Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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Post by tonystubblebine »

neogodless wrote: post #45
giarc wrote: post #38

"The primary value proposition of Mozi (today) is simple: It lets you know when you’re going to be in the same place (city or event) as someone you know." This is fairly shortsighted. How many people actually travel from city to city. I bet the vast majority of people have a 3km bubble around their house and work and that's as far as they travel 90% of the time. Additionally, it tracks when you are going to an event.…

Makes me think back to Foursquare - it didn't tell anyone anything in advance but it did tell you who else was at your exact location. Depending on your permissions and if you would let it know about Facebook events, calendar events, etc. then you might get notifications or see when someone is going to be going to the same restaurant, etc. I think events is the key, while you're focused a bit on city . They do specif…

It really made me think of Dopplr, which was one of the delighful and beautiful Web 2 apps that never quite broke out.

The thing that feels different between now and Web 2 is that the Internet is so much bigger. So you can build an app that has a niche and it can still be pretty big. I was on the early beta for this app and it's great, especially if networking and travel are a big part of your life. I honestly have no idea if it even needs to be bigger than that although I know it can be.

Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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Post by Yhippa »

naming_the_user wrote: post #23

To me, this looks like a fantastic idea, and something that could be really useful in a niche, but I think it's going to fly over the head of a lot of folk because it's fairly obviously targeted at highly mobile, maybe HNWI's who do a lot of travel - it's not going to be useful for "most" people.

There are social networks for farmers to find love, why not some socials for the 1%-ers?
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