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Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by mkuhn »

gregoire wrote: post #12

This is a real disappointment for me. While in development, Everyme was presented as a smart address book that would centralize the contacts from all your social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn...), as explained in this article: http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/andreessen-horowitz-crunchf... . It sounded like a great idea to me to centralize all these contacts in one single place and to be able to sync them with your iP…

You should take a look at our service: http://connex.io

Our value proposition is quite close to Everyme's original one.

Let me know what you think!

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Post by pmjordan »

DanBC wrote: post #7
AznHisoka wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The killer app for getting the elderly online and using computers/tablets/smartphones has been Skype, in my experience. Specifically, video chat. It's revolutionised communication with family who live far away. I suppose these days FaceTime would be equally appropriate. From there it's a slippery slope for most of them. The retired in my partner's and my family now spend more time playing video games than those of us in our 20s. (they simply have more time to spare)

I could see them picking up on something like this if they could overcome the trust barrier. Most 50+s I know don't trust Facebook and don't have an account there (I don't trust them either, but I'm in the minority in my age group).

Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by chaosprophet »

pclark wrote: post #6

I'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: > Ever…

> 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 actually a really cool way of solving your initial social network chicken and egg problem as well. When someone is regularly getting content from your app by text or email, they are eventually going to think of signing up for the service to make managing all that content easier.

Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by newhouseb »

Eeesh, was not aware that merely creating a circle would spam all of my friends in that circle. I like the idea behind everyme, but if it isn't properly communicated when I'll be sending stuff to friends you lose a lot of trust really fast.

Edit: Not entirely true, requires a post first, see ensuing thread...

Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by vnorby »

newhouseb wrote: post #25

Eeesh, was not aware that merely creating a circle would spam all of my friends in that circle. I like the idea behind everyme, but if it isn't properly communicated when I'll be sending stuff to friends you lose a lot of trust really fast. Edit: Not entirely true, requires a post first, see ensuing thread...

Hi newhouse. Thanks for trying Everyme. We've thought a lot about this process and have made sure not to do anything without your permission. We don't spam your friends when you create a Circle. We only share things with your Circle friends when you actually post them, by clicking the share button in the Circle.

Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by newhouseb »

vnorby wrote: post #26
newhouseb wrote: post #25

Eeesh, was not aware that merely creating a circle would spam all of my friends in that circle. I like the idea behind everyme, but if it isn't properly communicated when I'll be sending stuff to friends you lose a lot of trust really fast. Edit: Not entirely true, requires a post first, see ensuing thread...

Hi newhouse. Thanks for trying Everyme. We've thought a lot about this process and have made sure not to do anything without your permission. We don't spam your friends when you create a Circle. We only share things with your Circle friends when you actually post them, by clicking the share button in the Circle.

You're right, my error. I had a friend mention that she received two separate text messages, the first being about the post, the second being the context (i.e. they were added to a circle). I mistakenly assumed that they weren't sent together and sent in the opposite order. Might be nice to somehow communicate more explicitly that no one is notified until after you post something in a circle.

Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by vnorby »

newhouseb wrote: post #27
vnorby wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi newhouse. Thanks for trying Everyme. We've thought a lot about this process and have made sure not to do anything without your permission. We don't spam your friends when you create a Circle. We only share things with your Circle friends when you actually post them, by clicking the share button in the Circle.

You're right, my error. I had a friend mention that she received two separate text messages, the first being about the post, the second being the context (i.e. they were added to a circle). I mistakenly assumed that they weren't sent together and sent in the opposite order. Might be nice to somehow communicate more explicitly that no one is notified until after you post something in a circle.

Yes, I agree! That is something we are working on. We are in a difficult place because we are extraordinarily cautionary about what messages we send through email/text but we don't to clutter the UI with alerts and confirm dialogs.

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Post by solnyshok »

epikur wrote: post #18
motti_s wrote: post #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 sho…

To be fair, you can add email-only people to G+ as well.

in the previous century, we used to put several email addresses separated by , or ; and it worked quite well to share pics with the family :)

Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by currywurst »

mikepmalai wrote: post #15

I like that I can post content through email and text messages. That said, do we really need a single app that manages multiple 'circles'? When I look at my phone, my apps are my 'circles'. For close friends and family, I have text/email/Path. For my significant other, I have Pair. For college/social friends, I have Foursquare/Instagram. For mass distribution, I have Facebook/Twitter. Etc. With more and more apps off…

Never thought of the various social apps like that before .. there really need not be One Social Network To Rule Them All !
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