I wonder if they pushed this out of the door because of the traction that Instagram is picking up right now. It feels very similar, although not as refined at this point.
Path — Introducing The Personal Network
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#22Would anyone care about this if it wasn't launched by highly visible Facebook alums? Quality should be judged on merit, not who made them. If there's magic here, somebody lift the kimono.
I didn't even know that -- and was impressed with the build quality (or at least of their site, installing the app now)
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#23While I agree with some of you that this probably wouldn't get nearly as much attention if there was an unknown team/investors behind it, I still find all of the negativity surrounding startups these days on HN and other sites like TechCrunch to be annoying and totally counter-productive. If you think something is stupid or lame, fine - whatever. But do you really need to tell us all about it? Why do you think any of…
It would be one thing if the negativity was constructive criticism but it seems to be extremely whiny and angry in tone.
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#24So these guys who were big names at facebook leave facebook to found... a social network? And the only major difference is that you can only have 50 friends...
Yeah, I don't understand what problem this solves. Seems better suited for a Facebook feature than a separate site.
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#25Practically all of us carry a camera phone, not all of us an Apple one. should I feel sorry I'm not your target or you should be sorry because you restrict a social network to one platform?
Have they stated that they're an iPhone only platform? Are there no plans to develop an Android version? A Windows version? From the blog post they say, "We’re launching first on the App Store on iPhone." implying versions for other mobile platforms will be available in the future. Don't mistake limited resources for a decision to be iPhone only. In my experience, iPhone development tends to be significantly faster t…
IMHO a photo-sharing app with social features it shouldn't be platform-specific from the beginning. I wish them good anyways and I'm curious if/how fast will this product succeed. Twitter has succeeded on it's limit of 140 chars, maybe this one will do it too on it's 50 friends, the idea seems kind of cool and simple.
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#26That's a lot of text, I thought. Yet I ended up reading all of it. Interesting. Looks pretty. Can I be arsed? Will I not care about the feelings of friend 51? Good timing after that great TEDxSD talk.
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#27It's a bit unhandy to not use the build in contact finder. Theirs doesn't filter well.
Also, when I need to fill out my phone number, just let me pick "me" from my contact list, easier.
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#28Kinda weird they don't have a direct link to their iOS app from their web site, isn't it?
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#29I wondered recently on HN if there was an idea around a social network that limited the number of friends/contacts you made:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1855890
One respondent suggested that this would limit growth. If a cap of 50 doesn't quite limit growth, I wonder if it's different enough to Facebook that it might have any success?
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#30The production quality here is really really good.
However, I agree with the excellent presentation posted here a while ago 'The Real Life Social Network' (http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...) that the issue isn't number of people I want to share with. The issue is that the groups of people I want to share content with are completely separate. There are a number of pictures I would be happy to share with all my friends but would not want to share with my parents, or pictures that would be relevant to share with my co-workers but not all my friends. Until that issue is solved I'll continue to not share as much as I would were I to have more flexible (and easy to use) permissions.