Is this thread being astroturfed? So many lo-karma/zero-karma commenters.
Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
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Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
#22Definitely a good "disruption" to all the noise that is broadcast on twitter + instagram by all those that you follow. I think they also nail it pretty much with their tagline: Play photo ping and stay in touch with friends If the founders are reading this, was this the original idea ? If not, I'd love to know what did you all start with, and how you all pivoted to this particular idea? (Crunchbase says: founded in O…
I came up with an idea when I was on the top of a snowboard ramp(i was a snowboard pro), trying to capture the moment and share it with my friends over Instagram. But it felt like bragging, I didn’t want to collecting likes, comments and build my ego. Than I thought - if my friends would ask me where I am right now, I would be glad to show them and it would feel totally unintrusive! So that was the initial idea for p…
As a beta user for a year or so: it really feels good to be pinged. :)
And it's great entertainment to just browse what friends have been doing for last 24h.
+1 from me
Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
#23What did I just read? I have really, really low standards for web content, but this seriously reads like a fifth grade book report. "Povio is for now 100% focused on growth. It actually sounds like Povio has some kind of shot in the space."
That's true! But doing things that only have 1% chance is exciting. That’s what life is all about! You know what is even harder? What has even lass that 1% chance? Winning a World Cup in bigair snowboard competition! And I managed to do that 4 times.. If I don’t choose the hardest tasks out there, my life would be boring ... Easy as that.
OP is quoting and criticizing the article's writing not startup odds.
Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
#24I've been using Povio for the last 3 months; pinging friends is incredibly fun, and the network effect it has is amazing.
Povio is a great way to stay in touch with remote friends.
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#25Interesting idea. A couple of suggestions:
1) Don't do the auto countdown thing with the camera. Just let me take a picture.
2) My knee jerk reaction when I received a photo was to ping my friend for another one right away. In fact all my friends did this until we got fed up with each other. Maybe limit pings to once an hour or something.
3) Give comments more focus. If someone sends me a photo I want to interact with them about it. Maybe that's why I'm heading to ping them so quickly...
Otherwise I'm happy to see a novel approach to social networking.
Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
#26Is this thread being astroturfed? So many lo-karma/zero-karma commenters.
You actually went and checked? :)
Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
#27Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
#28What did I just read? I have really, really low standards for web content, but this seriously reads like a fifth grade book report. "Povio is for now 100% focused on growth. It actually sounds like Povio has some kind of shot in the space."
That's true! But doing things that only have 1% chance is exciting. That’s what life is all about! You know what is even harder? What has even lass that 1% chance? Winning a World Cup in bigair snowboard competition! And I managed to do that 4 times.. If I don’t choose the hardest tasks out there, my life would be boring ... Easy as that.
Great attitude, and from one Slovene founder to another, keep on rocking it :). Good luck to you guys over there!
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's true! But doing things that only have 1% chance is exciting. That’s what life is all about! You know what is even harder? What has even lass that 1% chance? Winning a World Cup in bigair snowboard competition! And I managed to do that 4 times.. If I don’t choose the hardest tasks out there, my life would be boring ... Easy as that.
OP is quoting and criticizing the article's writing not startup odds.
Oh.. I'm sorry!
Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
You actually went and checked? :)
A lot of the comments look like Yelp reviews from the cousins of a pizza shop owner.
Hate to be skeptical but I agree, the comments here are way too short and positive compared to what HN normally has to say about X or Y startup.