I'm hoping that this app and the investment are really some kind of performance art project.
Yo
21–30 of 101 posts
Re: Yo
#22I 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…
The existing method, of course, is a standard SMS message that says "Yo". I've sent plenty of them.
Re: Yo
#23> 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.
No, really don't do this, you could get someone killed like that (priority traffic causes tons of traffic accidents annually, if they follow up on a 9/11 when there is nothing wrong you are in very hot water, and rightly so).
There are a lot of situations where one bit communications can make big changes. Sending a voltage down the wire to the 'launch' relay on some missile will do a lot worse. In the end, any actuator anywhere is going to respond to just a single bit changing state. So we're in violent agreement about that.
But to reduce the available bandwidth to nothing when lots is available has me puzzled. Twitter found that reducing the number of characters (by necessity, rather than by choice) launched a new medium. I can see how taking that to its logical conclusion (from 840 bits to 1 bit) may create an entirely new mode of expression.
At the same time I fear it will not leave them with a value that is is 1/840th of twitter, that '1' is perilously close to a '0'. In that sense it is like 'pair', which tries (tried?) to be a social network for 2.
Maybe someone should come up with a 0 bit medium?
Re: Yo
#24I don't know why I'm having a crack out of this. It's just so silly.
Re: Yo
#25What this is, I believe, is a tell-tale sign of the second bubble.
Re: Yo
#26Excerpt:
“It’s really lightweight,” said Arbel. “You don’t have anything to open. The Yo is everything, it’s all there is. You don’t have a badge you need to remove or any hidden content. Just a Yo.”
Words fail me.
Re: Yo
#27> 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…
It shouldn't be this hard to tell a fad from a start-up.
Re: Yo
#28> 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…
i don't know, there's genocide and starvation and plenty of other profoundly disturbing things in the world. whether specific apps are stupid or not, or get funding or not, doesn't even register on my care-o-meter.
a huge portion of the 'technology' industry is just rich/privileged people doing nonsensical things that may make them a bunch of money. whatever.
trying to find or impose some kind of rationality on it is in my opinion pointless, and holding it accountable to some kind of moral benchmark is as sure as anything i've ever seen, to disappoint.
Re: Yo
#29New startup idea: an app that only lets you say "hey" to people. It's called Navi.
I can't wait until the hackathons where everyone makes Yo clones unironically. It's going to create an innovation black hole.
Re: Yo
#30The onboarding process was really jarring. I expected to be able to use it instantly. Instead, I had to wait ~30 seconds while my username was registered, and now I'm sitting on my hands waiting for some SMS with a code that will allow me to login. Also, there's no easy way for me to use the app with other people without inviting them first (which, given my circle of friends and family, would have to be preceded by a…
That's weird I didn't have to do an SMS code on Android.