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I don't know if there was much you could do with a product like that. I don't know who that would appeal to. Was it basically Google Hangouts for shopping?
Thanks for sharing this.
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Sounds like an excellent idea to me ;-) Walk around a mall. Watch the number of people using their phones to take photos, talk to their friends about options, phoning home to check they're getting the right thing, etc.
They're all young teenagers. Is that a great revenue model?
For example - you build the social hot-or-not for clothes purchases. How much is the data from that worth to a high-street retailer as a way to guide their pricing and stocking decisions.
(and - come to that - I see folk well out of their teen years doing this. Women especially in clothing stores... and what is the purchasing power of groups who are rich enough to afford smart phones in the first place)
Why not founding it again? A crutial point of a startup success is timing. Maybe this is a case of founder's timing. Founders all the time decide to pivot or persevere. And sometimes, to quit. Why it has to be a permanent quit? Three years and a good amount of experience laters, the founder can make it happen! I think we may face a failed startup as something you shut down, that is not demanding any more of your time…
Soneca, you are absolutely right. In this case, we shut it down, and my co-founder decided to move on. This just wasn't meant to be. After that, I decided to team up with a different friend of mine, and we are working on LaunchBit. So, while that was the end for Parrotview, it's not the end of my startup journey. :)