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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

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Earlier 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.

What's going on here...

Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

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Interesting 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 wit…

1)if you tap on the picture while countdown you skip 3-2-1

Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

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post #26

Earlier 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.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the team is Slovenian, and we're quite proud of what these guys have achieved, and if we can help in any way, we do.

Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

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What 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.

I did read in the story you were a world class snowboarder which is awesome. I was just trying to say that I'm disappointed with the quality of the story that TechCrunch has published about your product. It's not very well written and didn't explain your product well. But it doesn't reflect poorly on you, just on TechCrunch. Best wishes and good luck!

Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

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post #21

Is this thread being astroturfed? So many lo-karma/zero-karma commenters.

I thought so too, but habosa may have a point. There was another (badly written) TechCrunch piece about a startup from where I'm from (in the US, so probably all native speakers) and there were a lot of well-wishing, hiphiphooray comments.

Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

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"Photo apps today are about a traditional feed model — you post, and it gets pushed out. The problem with that is it does not work terribly well with shy people – and into that category fall millions of teenagers."

Shy people still won't ping others. Don't see how this will solve that problem.

Oh well.

Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

#40
Instead of creeps silently going through photo feeds, they can directly ping you for more photos!

Seriously though, I hope this idea catches on and it can possibly be the start of a trend of social media users becoming more "humble". It would be nice to see things flipped on it's head and move away from the push model of "here I am, here is a constant stream of useless shit about me".

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