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Re: Griggi: A Wi-Fi sharing ecosystem for affordable Internet everywhere

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Post by pocha » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 5:48 PM UTC

eximius wrote: post #40

edwhitesell wrote: post #39

When will it be more than a landing page? I'd like to see the installation steps and try it, but instead it just asks for my email address to receive updates. Side-note: If you're sharing a new product/service, only having a landing page is a big negative in my view. Show me something that works. You should not have a "Get Started" button if you won't actually let me start using it...

To be fair, Griggi didn't post there link here* - someone else did. * probably. EDIT: welp, saw OP saying 'we'. Nevermind.

Yup, thats right. Sorry for lame landing page. We have a prototype ready but before deciding to formally put it out, quickly wanted to run it down with a few people to see if there is actually some interest. Its largely inspired from the Buffer guy experiment to validate before he decide to finally build it - https://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-wee...

Re: Griggi: A Wi-Fi sharing ecosystem for affordable Internet everywhere

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Post by banna » Sat, Jun 27, 2015, 4:49 AM UTC

I would try to look for shareable AP each time but if my success rate is 1:10 I wouldn't bother look again. And I am ready to pay for it. So... what if I try the push model through telco - light up your AP sharing script in all the APs of this telco you get lets say 1 million shareable AP on Day-1. If an existing subscriber of this telco wants to use any of those APs, you add $1 to your monthly bill and access any of these 1 million APs anytime. If a Telco-Z subscriber wants to use this service pay $2 to the telco - $1 goes to Telco $1 goes to the one whose AP is being shared... everyone happy. Telco-Z jealous.

Now think of going abroad, telco has their roaming partners now they can have their wifi-roaming partners.

-Banna

Re: Griggi: A Wi-Fi sharing ecosystem for affordable Internet everywhere

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Post by banna » Sat, Jun 27, 2015, 4:54 AM UTC

Karma in the US appears to be just a LTE dongle which could be from anyone - At&T/sprint. whats the disruption?

Re: Griggi: A Wi-Fi sharing ecosystem for affordable Internet everywhere

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Post by banna » Sat, Jun 27, 2015, 5:30 AM UTC

If its about giving the power to seek and provide the service to individuals - like what Uber did - "I can share what I have and I don't need a license for it". Quite known to everyone Uber has built its service base by offering lucrative benefits to its drivers/service providers - one of the many reasons it was able to scale. Effect of that is people are buying new cars at the rate Toyota Vios can't fulfill the demand. Grigi could be free to use for a year like Whatsapp. At the end of the year many who shared their service will have Karma GB in their pockets to trade...at this stage bitcoin gained its popularity.. people had something to trade.

Re: Griggi: A Wi-Fi sharing ecosystem for affordable Internet everywhere

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Post by Milner08 » Mon, Jun 29, 2015, 10:41 AM UTC

pocha wrote: post #18

Milner08 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But, if I'm in an area where people are very unlikely to use my WiFi how do I accumulate 'Karma'? Do I then have to buy Karma?

Ya, you pay to buy Karma GB & use it at a Griggi WiFi. The idea is, if the concept becomes ubiquitous, people will be constantly looking for Griggi WiFi when they are close to residential/commercial establishments. You may have someone using your WiFi too :-). We are also going to put a feature which would let people manage their free WiFi hotspot with Griggi as well. The vision is to be the default WiFi sharing plat…

Im in the UK, and while I think this is a cool idea we already have BT Openzone/Fon available in a lot of places (It works in a similar way, except its free for anyone who is also on BT). We also have free 'Cloud' WiFi in lots of public places. I'm sure you'll have some success in areas without lots of WiFi hotspots, but you may struggle over here.