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Let's acquire them, just not for too much money. Otherwise we tell people that anything on the internets is worth billions. :)
Oh what the hell, fine, let's acquire them for billions.
are you listening, Zuckerberg?
We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today
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If an app that does nothing and has a half life of 3 weeks can raise $1 million, then the industry has a problem.
It doesn't mean the industry has a problem, it means the people who put the $1 million into the company have a problem.
If only I hadn't squandered my life savings on beanie-babies I could've invested in Yo before it went public!
Re: We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today
#33Unfortunately, this line of criticism works equally well about all games, art, haute cuisine, movies, national parks, and about 96% of our economy. More importantly, it also works against articles that gripe about effort wasted on apps the author doesn't care for.
All of your examples take a great deal more work than Yo.
Re: We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today
#34> "Some expressed anger that there own startups hadn't received funding"
Hard to take this guy seriously when he can't even grammar right in his intro paragraph. I love yo.
Re: We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today
#35I don't think our big/bigger/biggest problems can be solved by apps.
Re: We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today
#36Build whatever the market wants. Fund whatever the market wants.
Re: We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today
#37Let's build apps like Yo. They're good practice. Doing silly things that amuse oneself is a critical component of hackerdom. Let's just not fund them.
Why not fund them? If you think you can make a profit investing in Yo, then go for it. Who cares if it's not a life changing app, that's 99.99% of the app market, and it is what it is. If people install it, and use it, then it's providing some benefit to their lives, even if it's just for entertainment purposes.
I'm not going to start telling people to stop watching Game of Thrones, because all those man hours are going to waste, and they could be changing the world.
Re: We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today
#38Building Yo is not a hard problem.
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Re: We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today
#40Unfortunately, this line of criticism works equally well about all games, art, haute cuisine, movies, national parks, and about 96% of our economy. More importantly, it also works against articles that gripe about effort wasted on apps the author doesn't care for.
All of your examples take a great deal more work than Yo.
1.)Not necessarily, and 2.) is "amount of work required" the critera a pursuit must meet to be valid?