The co-founder of Yo could sell ice to Eskimos. That's my kind of sales guy on my team.
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#121693 words about an app that doesn't say much.
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#13Technology has a tendency to distill everything to its essence. This is just another step towards a world in which the number one film in the country is called "Ass" [1].
I'm 50/50 on this happening within a decade.
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#14I just...what? I don't understand. It's basically begging for you to switch apps after you get the "Yo" push notification. I can't really imagine a conversation which goes like this: Me: Yo Them: Yo Me: Yo Them: Yo ... What I can imagine is getting a Yo from someone, switching apps, and being like "what's up? [p.s. dont fucking Yo me anymore. Just message me using a real app.]". That "wut" app is similar in that you…
A very large amount of my phone messages are actually null-content messages: my phone is very often a "I'm here" when picking someone up, or "let me in" or "done shopping, waiting for you" if I'm grocery shopping with someone.
Basically any time someone says "message me when..." there is no conversation when I message them. There is just a contentless phone call or text message. This is filling a communication niche that isn't well supported by the existing methods.
That said, I'm still not willing to install a new app just for that, but that doesn't mean there isn't value there.
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#16> Without ever having officially launched, co-founder and CEO Or Arbel managed to secure $1.2 million in funding from a list of unnamed investors, except for co-founder, angel, and Mobli CEO Moshe Hogeg, who participated in the round. Stuff like that really gets me. I see tons of start-ups that would have a fighting chance given that sort of investment and then lame stuff like this gets funding. Of course they're ent…
1-bit communication can get a lot done.
Not sure? (don't do this) Try calling your local emergency service (911 in the US) and hanging up.
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#17Yo is already used by Yeoman, though...
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#18I just...what? I don't understand. It's basically begging for you to switch apps after you get the "Yo" push notification. I can't really imagine a conversation which goes like this: Me: Yo Them: Yo Me: Yo Them: Yo ... What I can imagine is getting a Yo from someone, switching apps, and being like "what's up? [p.s. dont fucking Yo me anymore. Just message me using a real app.]". That "wut" app is similar in that you…
A very large amount of my phone messages are actually null-content messages: my phone is very often a "I'm here" when picking someone up, or "let me in" or "done shopping, waiting for you" if I'm grocery shopping with someone. Basically any time someone says "message me when..." there is no conversation when I message them. There is just a contentless phone call or text message. This is filling a communication niche…
That's fair. I think you did just find a use case for it? But I think the very fact that you won't install an app just for that (rightfully so in my opinion!) by definition means there is no value there.
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#19> Without ever having officially launched, co-founder and CEO Or Arbel managed to secure $1.2 million in funding from a list of unnamed investors, except for co-founder, angel, and Mobli CEO Moshe Hogeg, who participated in the round. Stuff like that really gets me. I see tons of start-ups that would have a fighting chance given that sort of investment and then lame stuff like this gets funding. Of course they're ent…
> but was there really no place to spend that better?
Maybe. Consider all of the competing opportunities that might be discovered in a short window, like say a week. Out of all of those options, which ones are still early stage, which ones are demonstrating any amount of traction, and which ones have fancypants metrics like "over 5,000 messages sent per day"? (I'm just making that number up. But I'm sure that sort of number was mentioned at least once. Even if they had to squint to ignore the power law distribution.)
edit: and which ones are riding on the news or rumors of a >$1 billion exit (while still demonstrating traction)? (Snapchat/Whatsapp rumors were probably floating around for a bit before they happened.)
How much is traction worth? what about fad traction?
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#20I just...what? I don't understand. It's basically begging for you to switch apps after you get the "Yo" push notification. I can't really imagine a conversation which goes like this: Me: Yo Them: Yo Me: Yo Them: Yo ... What I can imagine is getting a Yo from someone, switching apps, and being like "what's up? [p.s. dont fucking Yo me anymore. Just message me using a real app.]". That "wut" app is similar in that you…
I could see the Tinder-style pivot actually making this an interesting app.
As it stands, what this app fails to do is establish a channel of communication. If I message a friend on Skype, I know that we're most likely going to converse over Skype. Same with email, SMS, phone call, etc. With Yo, however, they have to choose some method of communication which may not be ideal for me. Furthermore, given that there is zero metadata regarding the "Yo", they have no clue how urgent it is that they get in touch over some real communication channel. The only context that one can have around a Yo would have to be established before-hand (over a medium for real communication).
In fact, since there's no metadata (besides the identity of the sender), Yo is actually less useful than a beeper.