Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right
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#2>The app doesn’t allow users to share anything from Everyme to Facebook, Twitter, or other social networks — Cameron says that’s so you know that what’s shared in a Circle stays in the Circle.
These guys have it right. It's about time a social network started focusing on the quality of communication rather than the quantity of connections.
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#3Do we really need another social network site? Yes, we do! I am still waiting for a winner that allows me to share private details such as kid photos and contact information with select family members close friends. I want this data to be unavailable to anyone outside of my circle, including advertisers. Are there options available now that do this? Yes again, but I need a solution that I can get Grandma on board just as easily as my technically inclined brothers.
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#4Do we really need another social network site? Yes, we do! I am still waiting for a winner that allows me to share private details such as kid photos and contact information with select family members close friends. I want this data to be unavailable to anyone outside of my circle, including advertisers. Are there options available now that do this? Yes again, but I need a solution that I can get Grandma on board jus…
most grandmas don't use smartphones...
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#5"Everyme uses your phone’s address book for sharing, and if people don’t have Everyme accounts, they can still see and post content through email and text messages."
This is a brilliant way to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem, which is probably the biggest problem a new social network is facing.
I don't want to share my kids' pictures with everyone on Facebook. And no, my mom is not going to join Google+ (nor should she), so having her receive the posts by emails for now is just brilliant.
I think the Everyme guys may be on to something.
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#6I've been beta testing Everyme for a few months, and I am a huge fan of the founders too (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3539676)
Everyme makes perfect sense - I regularly encounter "status updates" (be they links, updates, or photos) that I want to share to a subset of my friends or family. Everyone does.
The Techcrunch article totally under sells the huge thing that Everyme does that no one else does:
> Everyme uses your phone’s address book for sharing, and if people don’t have Everyme accounts, they can still see and post content through email and text messages
How cool is this? Suddenly, I can create a family circle - and even my family - who are barely on Facebook - can enjoy and engage with relevant content. I think this is huge, and it is also going to drive huge adoption for Everyme. My Grandmother isn't on Facebook, hell, she isn't on Email, but she is on SMS. Everyme just works.
For the first time ever in a social network, when you post a relevant status update, everyone that you want to see it, will see it.
I am hoping they add a Maps / Location feature, and then they've also solved the Beluga gap in this market. I really think these guys are on to something.
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#7Do we really need another social network site? Yes, we do! I am still waiting for a winner that allows me to share private details such as kid photos and contact information with select family members close friends. I want this data to be unavailable to anyone outside of my circle, including advertisers. Are there options available now that do this? Yes again, but I need a solution that I can get Grandma on board jus…
most grandmas don't use smartphones...
How long are we going to be saying that grandmas are technologically illiterate?
RFC 3 is older (by a few months) than me - April 1969.
Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf are about 70. (That's old enough to be a great grand-parent.) Jon Postel was born in 1943. There are many old women who are Internet pioneers because they were librarians, and the Internet was something that got rolled out to university libraries early on.
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#8Do we really need another social network site? Yes, we do! I am still waiting for a winner that allows me to share private details such as kid photos and contact information with select family members close friends. I want this data to be unavailable to anyone outside of my circle, including advertisers. Are there options available now that do this? Yes again, but I need a solution that I can get Grandma on board jus…
My problem with all these social networks is getting the family on board.
I'm still waiting for a mature product that I can be confident about sharing with them - G+ is there, but not really anything else. I don't want to get +20 people onto a site only to have it go "sorry, we're shutting down", or "yay, we've been acquired, sorry early adopters" in a year.
I've been burnt before, and I hate it when it happens.
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#9"Everyme uses your phone’s address book for sharing, and if people don’t have Everyme accounts, they can still see and post content through email and text messages." This is a brilliant way to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem, which is probably the biggest problem a new social network is facing. I don't want to share my kids' pictures with everyone on Facebook. And no, my mom is not going to join Google+ (nor sho…
Facebook supports granular privacy for all posts via friend lists, and will even suggest friends to add to lists.
Want to share pics with just your family? Don't want to turn down a friend request from a coworker, but don't want them to see anything (Restricted list)? Facebook has these features. These social networks are going nowhere.
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#10Facebook should open a new savings account and deposit $1.37 million every day. In two years it will have the $1 billion they'll pay to acquire Everyme.