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Dalton Caldwell: Announcing an audacious proposal
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Re: Dalton Caldwell: Announcing an audacious proposal
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the FAQ: Why aren't you using Kickstarter? We wish we could, we
It's hard to see how it's different in any material way from Ouya, for example. It's a project with a definite end milestone, with a product that will continue on after. Did they actually ask Kickstarter?
What? There seems to be a pretty huge difference, actually.
The Ouya game console is a physical object while this is some kind of vague web app/API thing.
Somebody else posted the actual Kickstarter TOS, but it seemed pretty clear it wouldn't be allowed for this kind of project.
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#53I hate to be old school media here...but I wish this was announced on Monday or any other time besides Friday afternoon, when it will get less notice. Because it's a great announcement.
Funny because that is exactly the time that I advise most people to make their announcements. When there are just as many people surfing the web looking for news (our numbers at Techcrunch were higher pageviews per post on weekends) but all the mainstream journalists and the PR people you are competing with for attention are at home asleep. The tech blogs that run 24/7 are dying for stories at this time of the week s…
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#54Summary: "I propose receiving $500k USD of your money (with terms like Kickstarter, but not actually via Kickstarter) to build my new startup, in exchange for giving you zero equity. I know it's audacious."
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#55Anyone else thinking about Diaspora as soon as he mentioned Kickstarter?
Grandiose vision, but going to war with Twitter today is as foolish as trying to take on Facebook.
You're not going to attract a mainstream audience and gain serious critical mass just because you're an open platform and developer-friendly. In the case of SourceForge/GitHub, it was different because the demographic is entirely developers. Not so with social networks or media companies of any kind, the audience is mainstream, that means college students, celebrities, high school girls, etc.
"Every battle is won before it is ever fought" (Sun Tzu) -- learn from Diaspora's failure, don't repeat it.
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#56I'm not going to prognosticate about whether or not this service will take off. I really hope it does - the raison d'être seems genuine, or at the very least, passionately backed.
But that seems to be the very problem with it. In trying not to bury his lead, I believe Dalton Caldwell has let it take over the pitch. 95% "why" and 5% "what". 10 minutes in, I was still scratching my head wondering what the service will look like. And the name App.net certainly doesn't do the cause any favours. The first decent explanation finds itself relegated to question 2 of the FAQs.
This is an audacious attempt, and I laud that. But the pitch, in my opinion, needs an overhaul. Diaspora was also about the "why", but they addressed the "what" really early in their Kickstarter pitch.
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#57Amazing that there is no mention of http://Status.net anywhere this topic is discussed.
Evan Prodromou has been trying to crack that nut for many years now...
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#58As a hacker who just terminated his FB account, it sounds like I'm the target audience. But I have to confess that after reading the blog post and clicking through to the faux Kickstarter page, my response went from "That could be interesting" to "That's disappointing." If they are going to leverage the Kickstarter model, then they should at least learn from other KS projects: show me the problem, build a prototype,…
I was excited till I saw the video too although I think his "tone" or way of speaking and quirks bugged me more than lack of a prototype and cool music. I know that's a pretty shitty thing to say but its true (at least for me). Ironically his writing came off exactly the opposite.
Re: Dalton Caldwell: Announcing an audacious proposal
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the FAQ: Why aren't you using Kickstarter? We wish we could, we
from http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines "projects, projects, projects. As in all categories, Kickstarter is for projects that can be completed, not things that require maintenance to exist. This means no e-commerce sites, web businesses, or social networking sites. (Yes, this means Kickstarter wouldn’t be allowed on Kickstarter. Funny, but true.)"
Which they broke with the Penny Arcade no-ad Kickstarter earlier this week.