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Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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I watched the video, and I still don't know what app.net is. "Social platform" is all I got, that's extremely vague.

Twitter, that you pay for, that has no adverts and that is developer friendly with the API.

I think that's a good summary: https://alpha.app.net/

Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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post #9

I watched the video, and I still don't know what app.net is. "Social platform" is all I got, that's extremely vague.

Twitter, that you pay for, that has no adverts and that is developer friendly with the API. I think that's a good summary: https://alpha.app.net/

Why would people pay to tell other people what they ate for lunch?

Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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post #12

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Twitter, that you pay for, that has no adverts and that is developer friendly with the API. I think that's a good summary: https://alpha.app.net/

Why would people pay to tell other people what they ate for lunch?

"Why would people pay to tell other people what they ate for lunch?"

Twitter and Facebook were fun when not everyone and their parents were on there. I'm hoping that the price tag keeps a lot of the people out who don't have anything of value to share. So far, from what I've seen on the alpha site, the conversations are way more interesting to me than most banter on Twitter. The higher limit of 256 characters helps too. I look forward to using App.net, whereas I find the Twitter experience increasingly frustrating.

Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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I'm glad they're going to have someone verify it. It seemed really strange to me that they rolled their own crowd funding platform for one use. Why didn't they go with a third party like Kickstarter in the first place?

Against Kickstarters TOS. They only allow "creative projects."

Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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I'm glad they're going to have someone verify it. It seemed really strange to me that they rolled their own crowd funding platform for one use. Why didn't they go with a third party like Kickstarter in the first place?

There is a FAQ on the site. It says:

> Why aren't you using Kickstarter?

> We wish we could, we <3 Kickstarter. Unfortunately, the Kickstarter Terms Of Service explicitly prohibits raising money for this kind of service.

Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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I'm glad they're going to have someone verify it. It seemed really strange to me that they rolled their own crowd funding platform for one use. Why didn't they go with a third party like Kickstarter in the first place?

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Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would people pay to tell other people what they ate for lunch?

"Why would people pay to tell other people what they ate for lunch?" Twitter and Facebook were fun when not everyone and their parents were on there. I'm hoping that the price tag keeps a lot of the people out who don't have anything of value to share. So far, from what I've seen on the alpha site, the conversations are way more interesting to me than most banter on Twitter. The higher limit of 256 characters helps t…

You must have some important stuff to say that you pay to say it.

Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would people pay to tell other people what they ate for lunch?

"Why would people pay to tell other people what they ate for lunch?" Twitter and Facebook were fun when not everyone and their parents were on there. I'm hoping that the price tag keeps a lot of the people out who don't have anything of value to share. So far, from what I've seen on the alpha site, the conversations are way more interesting to me than most banter on Twitter. The higher limit of 256 characters helps t…

The quality of content in a community is always higher when the community is smaller. Twitter conversations in the early days were all high-quality, too.

Social networks live and die by whether your friends are on them, though, and while I get the appeal of "keeping out the riff-raff", I'm having a really hard time swallowing the idea that you can reach critical mass (without which your product will fail) by charging for a product that people are used to getting for free.

If the team can reach critical mass, then awesome. But I think that it's going to be nearly impossible to sell to anyone but the subset of the early-adopter crowd who have a bone to pick with Facebook and Twitter, which is a very passionate, but very limited audience.

Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would people pay to tell other people what they ate for lunch?

"Why would people pay to tell other people what they ate for lunch?" Twitter and Facebook were fun when not everyone and their parents were on there. I'm hoping that the price tag keeps a lot of the people out who don't have anything of value to share. So far, from what I've seen on the alpha site, the conversations are way more interesting to me than most banter on Twitter. The higher limit of 256 characters helps t…

Twitter's growth hasn't affected the quality of my Twitter experience at all. I just don't follow people who post crap. Is this a real problem people are having, or is it an invented justification for something they want to see succeed?
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