I like the concept, and event want to use this, but maybe you can have more thought put in to the example friends. I do not categorize my friends as Mr. Example, Miss Hotty, and Best Buddy....especially as a woman. The Miss Hotty is especially creepy - you want guys to send pings to just hot girls? This feels like harassment.
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
#52Interesting 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…
Definitely agree on getting rid of the countdown feature. It's definitely bad as a first user experience; almost certain the first picture anyone takes will be bad and they may not see the "Slide down to retake" text.
Also, I like to be able to send text with the picture too, just to give a bit of context. I really imagine using this as a reverse Snapchat that let's me get pictures instead of sending them. Being able to give context to the picture is great. On a related note. I like being able to see comments on a picture when scrolling through the feed. Making the comment viewing section a separate screen in the app makes it less useful.
Also as a comparison to Snapchat. How long do the pictures stay around. Forever?
Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
#53Definitely 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…
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Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
#54I like the concept, and event want to use this, but maybe you can have more thought put in to the example friends. I do not categorize my friends as Mr. Example, Miss Hotty, and Best Buddy....especially as a woman. The Miss Hotty is especially creepy - you want guys to send pings to just hot girls? This feels like harassment.
Yep, just like I suspected. Been on there for 10 minutes, and already getting friend requests from creepy guys I've never heard of. I would only use this with close friends.
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Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
#56Interesting 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…
Definitely agree on getting rid of the countdown feature. It's definitely bad as a first user experience; almost certain the first picture anyone takes will be bad and they may not see the "Slide down to retake" text. Also, I like to be able to send text with the picture too, just to give a bit of context. I really imagine using this as a reverse Snapchat that let's me get pictures instead of sending them. Being able…
Agree, it can be a little tricky for 1st experience...but for the ones that stay, is a convenient feature.
I think the comment next to the pic would make it worse - pics are the easiest/the fastest way of consuming the content. This is why the News feed is now really light - you can scroll/check out new pics really fast, and I like that. If I want "heavier News feed", I go to Twitter/FB/...
Pic stays in the News feed for 24h, as far as I know.
Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
#57Android user here - anyone else having a difficult time using this app? So much of it feels like a hackathon hack. It's shoddy, unresponsive, and overcomplicated.
Take pinging for example, when I added a new friend (and she accepted) I couldn't ping her. The orange circle never showed up. I had to navigate to several different views for it to activate. Also, commenting on a photo opens a.... popupbox? What?
I think the idea is kinda fun and I hope these guys succeed, but I also think they need to rethink their UI.
Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
#58This looks pretty interesting (I just saw a demo); the old facebook strategy of winning a specific college campus, then replicating to other campuses, seems to work well.
(It's also interesting how a world-class athlete has gone into startups; there are definitely a bunch on wall street and in sales, but doing a startup, outside sports, isn't as common I think. Pretty awesome.)
Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
#59Definitely 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…
Congrats on the traction! Quick question since I haven't downloaded the app, how would that have worked at the top of the snowboard ramp since your friends would have had to ping you right at that exact moment? Were you thinking that you would take a picture to reply with later? I'm trying to understand how the app works if 90% of the time that I might get pinged I'm not doing anything interesting (we can't all be snowboard pros ;)
Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
#60I'm addicted to POVIO! my friends and I are having a ball using it. much better and more chill than snap chat in my opinion.