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Obvious Corp. backed Branch comes out of private beta

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Re: Obvious Corp. backed Branch comes out of private beta

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Post by chimi »

It's neat. It's basically a different take on forums or twitter. Where your twitter page is a jumble of comments about N different conversations, Branch separates them into threads.

It's a new way and it'll get a lot of attention, but it's really just a way to communicate and there are lots of them. If Branch succeeds, it'll do so in the adoption of its style into other communications media, including existing forums or twitter.

Re: Obvious Corp. backed Branch comes out of private beta

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Post by im_dario »

Cool concept! I'm glad to see something like that working. I wrote down almost a year ago a very similar idea (I called it Flow) in a "incubator" project of mine: https://github.com/imdario/lyd/wiki/Analysis

Maybe it is time to code what I thought ;) It was meant to be a liquid democracy citizen participatory system.

Re: Obvious Corp. backed Branch comes out of private beta

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Post by eevilspock »

ceslami wrote: post #30
confluence wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You presume that it has to be sustainable to generate a profit.

He's making a good point -- how can it be sustainable without profit? Of course it needn't be sustainable to generate profit, but that's not what he meant, or said.

And @confluence is implying that the real goal may not be sustainability, but profit. See Sparrow, Instagram, and all the other sellouts.
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