As others have said. The idea is good but without a privacy policy that is a lot of PII to be forking over.
Friendsweekly – A weekly newsletter to stay in touch with people you care about
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#12I agree with the need for 'safe' social places like to be built. But since the entire system is based upon lists and lists of email addresses, there REALLY needs to be a Ts & Cs and Privacy Policy in place here. I'm assuming this is a one-man-band (Jayme?) behind this which I also commend, but if you don't add those things and also some background info about who's behind it (and how safe are all those email addresses…
Can you elaborate on the podcast thing
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#13This is extremely sweet, quaint, and I absolutely love the concept... but... what RSS? Where's the privacy policy? Support via twitter? Who's project is this and what else are they doing with my data?
Re: Friendsweekly – A weekly newsletter to stay in touch with people you care about
#14I agree with the need for 'safe' social places like to be built. But since the entire system is based upon lists and lists of email addresses, there REALLY needs to be a Ts & Cs and Privacy Policy in place here. I'm assuming this is a one-man-band (Jayme?) behind this which I also commend, but if you don't add those things and also some background info about who's behind it (and how safe are all those email addresses…
Can you elaborate on the podcast thing
A 'podcast' is (or was!) a media file located at the 'url' of an RSS feed item 'enclosure'.
When a podcasting downloading application (aka:'podcatcher') 'subscribes' to the RSS feed, it gets notified (actually via a 'pull' or 'ping') that a new latest item is available. The application then automatically downloads the media file and places it in a playlist in your media player for offline use.
At least that's how it always used to be when we started building these things years ago. ;)
Hope this helps.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate on the podcast thing
A 'podcast' is (or was!) a media file located at the 'url' of an RSS feed item 'enclosure'. When a podcasting downloading application (aka:'podcatcher') 'subscribes' to the RSS feed, it gets notified (actually via a 'pull' or 'ping') that a new latest item is available. The application then automatically downloads the media file and places it in a playlist in your media player for offline use. At least that's how it…
The term has been somewhat evolved to mean an 'episodic' series of media files (audio or video). Which is why so many places call them a podcast now.
Rather like when people online post a big blurb of text anywhere and just call it a 'blog'. it diminishes the true meaning of the term.
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#16While I like the intent here, I personally would be really annoyed if a friend gave my email address to a site like this. It is NOT OK to give your friend's private email addresses to third parties.
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#17This looks great but I don't see anything about pricing / business model, which worries me. Are they going to start charging for subscriptions once they're established? or inserting ads everywhere to make money? or do the intend to pursue freemium features with a solid "free forever" feature set? I only really want to invest the time and energy into getting my friends using this service if it's the latter.
What kind of premium service on top of this would you suggest?
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#18RSS in the title is misleading. This looks like an email newsletter thing and has nothing to do with the syndication format you can subscribe to in a feed reader.
Bit of a tangent, but you can pipe email newsletters into an RSS feed.
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#19RSS in the title is misleading. This looks like an email newsletter thing and has nothing to do with the syndication format you can subscribe to in a feed reader.
Ok, we've de-RSS'd the title above. Thanks!
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't know if many people ... Every service doesn't need to appeal to every person, or to destroy FB. Would it be successful with 1,000 users? 10,000? 100,000? Certainly there's some small fraction of the world that would find this useful.
Is that small fraction in the same friend group? If not they'd be just a bunch of random strangers on the internet. The problem is that FB, Insta, etc... is where most people's friends are. I don't have any use for a social network my friends don't or won't use. I really do like this idea. I have a few friends I send a long email to every 2 or 3 months, just to keep them up to date on my life, touch base, see how the…
> Is that small fraction in the same friend group?
Certainly if you just select people at random, it's unlikely they'd all want this service.
But if you already send a long email to friends periodically, and if they appreciate reading your long emails, and if they occasionally send you lengthy updates, then chances are the folks in your friend group would like the product.
To quote patio11 talking about financial services:
If there is a 100x100 matrix of broadly consumed financial products and potential customer segments for them, we can compete on product for one cell of that matrix, win by utter domination, and then start expanding from there.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1208909582896181248
This approach might not work well for financial services, but shouldn't it might be feasible for like-minded groups of people.