So 50 is the new 140?
Path — Introducing The Personal Network
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#32This is possibly the worst name for an iPhone app one could choose. It's like on page three of the app store when I search for "path".
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#33I wonder how much of their funding they spent on the domain name. I kind of like the idea, and the world is becoming ripe for a simpler Facebook, but christ - I can only imagine the difficult conversations about why I didn't reciprocate when someone 'pathed' me. "Sorry, you're not in my top 50".
The limit of 50 does seem like a bit of an awkward conversation waiting to happen. Surely someone must have pointed out to the developers that someone out there has a large close family and a lot of close friends?
I'd also be very worried about the even more difficult conversation: "sorry, you were in my top 50, but I've bumped you for my new friend Dave"
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#34While 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…
I think here is where pg would say that these things come in waves. Give it time and it will quiet down.
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#35I wonder how much of their funding they spent on the domain name. I kind of like the idea, and the world is becoming ripe for a simpler Facebook, but christ - I can only imagine the difficult conversations about why I didn't reciprocate when someone 'pathed' me. "Sorry, you're not in my top 50".
The limit of 50 does seem like a bit of an awkward conversation waiting to happen. Surely someone must have pointed out to the developers that someone out there has a large close family and a lot of close friends? I'd also be very worried about the even more difficult conversation: "sorry, you were in my top 50, but I've bumped you for my new friend Dave"
What do you think people told the Twitter guys about 140 characters? ;)
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#36This app not available in the Australian iTunes store... I wonder why? Is it only available in the US? Is this short term? (i imagine so)
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#37The photo wars are heating up: Dailybooth, instagram, picplz, path, etc... exciting!
(I am an investor in both dailybooth and picplz)
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
The limit of 50 does seem like a bit of an awkward conversation waiting to happen. Surely someone must have pointed out to the developers that someone out there has a large close family and a lot of close friends? I'd also be very worried about the even more difficult conversation: "sorry, you were in my top 50, but I've bumped you for my new friend Dave"
What do you think people told the Twitter guys about 140 characters? ;)
Good point - limits sometimes gives very interesting results.
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The limit of 50 does seem like a bit of an awkward conversation waiting to happen. Surely someone must have pointed out to the developers that someone out there has a large close family and a lot of close friends? I'd also be very worried about the even more difficult conversation: "sorry, you were in my top 50, but I've bumped you for my new friend Dave"
What do you think people told the Twitter guys about 140 characters? ;)
If it were 15, I would have to put the kind of thought into picking friends that I put into picking words on Twitter. 50 seems merely inconvenient.
I doubt more than 50 people care about my personal photos anyway. It doesn’t sound limiting enough to make it a new kind of thing. I could easily be wrong.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Sure, but of all the arguments for native-apps, seamless integration with camera taking functionality is a worthy one.
To build something that integrates with the camera requires platform-specific solution (says a disgruntled but understanding Android user who can't use Path yet either)