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The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

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Re: The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

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Post by radio4fan »

brianvan5155 wrote: post #20
radio4fan wrote: post #5

What is this mysterious drivel? Who is brianvan5155 and why hasn't he made any comments? How has this made it to the front page? What can it all mean?

I'm a web producer and developer. I'm an early commenter from Slashdot, Ars Technica, and Gawker. I've been using online communities for 22 years, longer than some people around here have been alive. I've read quite a few threads on HN and respect this as a news source, and I haven't felt fit to contribute until now. I've been talking with Julie about her experiences as a like-minded professional and I also remain ba…

Well this makes sense to me in a way that the post didn't. I didn't identify 'tech' as meaning 'VC ruling class'. I guess I'm just obtuse.

Re: The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

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Post by Redoubtable »

rdouble wrote: post #33
Redoubtable wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh I'm stoked someone called us an API for social games. Usually people call us wildly less accurate things. YAY! We are technically a suite of tools (which you know depending on your executional ability is an API, or a set of SDKs, or us hand holding you through using them) for brand managers and marketers to build applications and games with their own data. Layer up content + actions and out pops your very own cus…

The text on playapi.com says "PLAYAPI IS A PLATFORM FOR CREATING SOCIAL GAMES AND APPLICATIONS." in a big font.

Indeed it is what says! Which is kind of the lost point I should make in all of this in that we've in the past positioned the company to appeal to certain things we thought the industry would find appealing not necessarily our customers.

Who really don't find us through our website but through word of mouth with ad agencies, brand managers and media partners. But nevertheless we say PLATFORMS! SOCIAL GAMES! SHIT WE THINK WILL PLAY WELL BUT OUR CUSTOMER BASE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT REALLY.

And well I suppose this is all true. But also framing.

Re: The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

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Post by reinhardt »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #26
radio4fan wrote: post #5

What is this mysterious drivel? Who is brianvan5155 and why hasn't he made any comments? How has this made it to the front page? What can it all mean?

Who are these women and brown people interrupting the sanctity of our hacker space!?

Lame attempt to derail a civilized discussion to yet another (imaginary) minority exploitation brouhaha is lame.

Re: The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

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Post by Redoubtable »

larrys wrote: post #38
Redoubtable wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You would think I would take that too but apparently I'm an idiot and got caught up in useless crap. We make marketing software for big brands so all our "users" are monetized because well ummm that is our business model. Enterprise is great that way! No one gets the product for free!

"We make marketing software for big brands" You might want to put that front and center in your home page message. Also your "playapi" logo is totally unreadable in both Firefox as well as Safari (v-latest).

Well now that I've just managed to out myself to the entire world (well the world here, wasn't expecting that). We probably will!

No VC we've talked to has ever wanted to hear we make marketing software for brands. But if I'm not caring anymore then yeah how we speak to our clients will be how we speak to everyone now. How very liberating.

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Post by tubbo »

tptacek wrote: post #3

You can curse us all you want. I curse things at random all the time. But then get back to work. The challenge you've briefly engaged with isn't a problem; it's a market opportunity. While the "it" crowd is repeatedly failing to achieve any lasting success with their completely pointless photo-sharing applications running on their 4th successive new storage backend (was mysql, then mongo, then homebrew, now postgres;…

Mo money, mo problems.

Re: The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

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Post by Redoubtable »

iosnoob wrote: post #39

Thanks for the blog post and valid point of view. Couple of suggestions on your business: - I couldn't find your site by googling play api. I think that's a pretty bad situation for prospective investors - your logo is one of the most unreadable ones I've come across - your title is very broad and not sure who its targeted at. How about something simpler like "create multiplatform branded games in seconds" Good luck.

Thanks!

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Post by Redoubtable »

RyanZAG wrote: post #40
Redoubtable wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh I'm stoked someone called us an API for social games. Usually people call us wildly less accurate things. YAY! We are technically a suite of tools (which you know depending on your executional ability is an API, or a set of SDKs, or us hand holding you through using them) for brand managers and marketers to build applications and games with their own data. Layer up content + actions and out pops your very own cus…

I'm in the industry so I get what you're saying here - but I'm pretty sure most VCs and your customers are going to be mighty confused. You should try and simplify a 'what we do' message that is easier to understand. The first 30 seconds of introduction to your concept is the most important - make sure people can understand it!

Indeed! We've rarely had a confused customer thankfully.

Re: The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

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Post by Redoubtable »

cududa wrote: post #37
superflit wrote: post #31

Someone has PMS...

Was that you trying to make an ironically chauvinistic joke, or are you just a sexist ass?

Heh well you know actually I do have PMS! I'm due to start maybe tomorrow or Tuesday. Wow and to think my epiphany was just hormones. Man those things are useful!

Re: The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

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Post by Redoubtable »

mikecane wrote: post #29

>>>Being cool has never been about begging to be liked. >>>It turns out I’ve got a startup that happens to be a business. You know what that means? We make money. That second part. That is what is cool.

Heh. Thanks. Glad someone thinks it is cool!
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