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- 9.17.2018 : Notice on Path service discontinuation
- 10.1.2018: Unable to download/update the app in iTunes and Google Play
- 10.18.2018: Termination of the Service (Unable to access to Path)
- 11.15.2018: Path related customer service will be closed
I remember a friend used it years ago with her partner as a private social network of sorts which I thought was interesting. Then that was the last I ever heard of Path until now.
Never forget this about Path's founder: http://jesuschristsiliconvalley-blog.tumblr.com/post/4653927... Also, I don't remember how much he had to pay for the path.com domain, but it was a laughable amount (I can't find it rn)
Never forget this about Path's founder: http://jesuschristsiliconvalley-blog.tumblr.com/post/4653927... Also, I don't remember how much he had to pay for the path.com domain, but it was a laughable amount (I can't find it rn)
Can someone explain what this is about?
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I heavily believe social networks will always be cyclical, as people always want excitement. A new social network launches, everyone gets excited for something new and different, it grows to the point where your grandma and your teachers or kids are on it too, you lose the excitement and start looking for the next "entertainment". The world is moving faster than ever with entertainment and attention spans. Facebook i…
You underestimate several things: - the difficulty of changing services for the technically challenged. - Facebook's technical prowess (much different than MySpace was) - Facebook's variety outside of a pure social network (they are a news app, craiglist/classifieds, meetup/events, Picasa 10.0/photo app, messenger, and a myspace clone, all rolled into one, with new services added all of the time). Probably missed som…
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This provides more context: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/17/rip-path/
Crazy that they turned down a $100M+ offer from Google in their first year.
(It was only a $10mil buyout offer of a startup I owned 5% of at the time, but we believed we'd be worth 10 times that in a year's time and turned it down. ~8 years later I spent everything I got from the acquisition we got taking a few friends to dinner. (well, "they" by that time - I'd been out for a couple of years but still had my shareholding. Wrong decision in hindsight, but no regrets. I'd make the same choice given the info we had at the time...)
Path in its day was way ahead in ux and detail compared to other social networks. Stickers and reactions on facebook came later and even then/now never were as 'finished' compared to what Path had. A great example of how the better product doesn't always win. There are just too many factors (like timing and network effects in this case).
https://www.theverge.com/2012/2/7/2782947/path-ios-app-user-...
It started as a good idea while social networks hadn't yet reached the level of adoption and engagement that they would later, but getting users to start using anything new is very difficult. The limit on the number of contacts (that one could have) may have further impacted the network effect. It's a bit unfortunate that the first thing that comes to my mind when Path is mentioned is the address book upload by the a…
I'd be interested in a peer-to-peer one, rather than one with a centralized server and database.
Path was very popular in Indonesia when I visited a few years ago. I guess people just switched to other social networks like Instagram. I wonder whether people will have moved on from Instagram in 10 years.
I heavily believe social networks will always be cyclical, as people always want excitement. A new social network launches, everyone gets excited for something new and different, it grows to the point where your grandma and your teachers or kids are on it too, you lose the excitement and start looking for the next "entertainment". The world is moving faster than ever with entertainment and attention spans. Facebook i…
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Can someone explain what this is about?
It seems to be somebody making fun of an interview he gave.
This was part of one of the first threads I had ever read on HN, on or around the day it appeared: 3/23/2013. Actually, I think I discovered HN in late April or early May, but anyway, the user that shared it then, as much as now, also quickly got flagged and hellbanned.
For a brief moment I felt like I was reading a site that had some truths to speak to, but that illusion was dispelled as soon as it was [censored] and the flames were stamped out. Ah well...
Five years later, and I know better. This site is a tightly controlled mouthpiece, and an echochamber in service to microcorporations in search of early retirement paydays and acquisition cashouts, but hey, work-safe reading material, am I right?