What is Bump's business model? The app is free. These services are free.
Acquire users and sell out to facebook/google? But yeah, this would be interesting to know.
"Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
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Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#72So what stops me from feeding Bump false data and effectively hold the space bar down to steal ALL the photos?
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#73Whoa! Just "bumped" into somebody else while testing this out. http://twitpic.com/98efxf Gimmick?
Slightly disturbing that you don't get any confirmation to share on the mobile side, it just sends your data off to whoever it matched with immediately :-/ Generally very cool experience but I wonder how well the matching algorithm will scale though. You can't be getting all that many bits of uniqueness out of a single key press and a vague bit of browser location data right?
I think it can scale by bumping more times (1-3 is ok for people and it will triple your space). But even with this, the non-geo-located (or poorly located) browser will become unusable by oh-so-many conflicts when you have certain amount of users using it.
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#74What is Bump's business model? The app is free. These services are free.
Same as Fb or Twitter, collect user data and eventually have some great monatization idea. If nobody has a good idea, you can always put AdMob or something on it "this bump was sponsored by ..." something.
The idea is good, the best way so far to say "Bluetooth sucks".
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#75Want to build magic like this into your own iOS or Android app? Try out our brand new, super fast APIs: https://github.com/bumptech/bump-api-ios https://github.com/bumptech/bump-api-android Email me if you have any questions: tg@bu.mp
Some feedback: I just filled out my virtual card with my contact info, and suddenly got an email from you guys in my inbox. I didn't sign up for an account or anything.
IMO this is pretty shitty - I put this information into the app to send to other people, not so Bump can email me. And now I feel iffy putting other data into the app - Bump is not strictly the data exchange platform I thought it was.
This is a violation of user trust - if you want to store/act on any information users put into the app you need to let them know first.
This really, really rubbed me the wrong way - this is the first time any app of mine has ever intercepted a form field, sent it to the mothership without my consent, and used the data in a way that was never stated nor implied. App deleted.
[edit] Oh hey look, the email addressed me by the name I put into the vCard. I guess now you have my phone number too.
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's my genuine reaction. I really thought this is super cool and innovative.
I was about to write that there was an app for sharing between phones that used "bumping" but when I searched for the name... it's the same app :)
While I have not previously seen an app that uses key input and accelerometer data like this one, there have been some academic publications that discuss pairing using similar accelerometer readings:
Hinckley, 2003: http://depts.washington.edu/dmgftp/publications/uist04/uist_...
Mayrhofer, 2007: http://comp.eprints.lancs.ac.uk/2230/1/TMC-2008-07-0279-3.pd...
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#77I like the idea a lot. It's brilliant. Regarding the removal of the app- and music sharing feature, I noticed that it was the number one complaint and reason for a 1-star review in the app store, and then I saw this on their website:
Q. What happened to the music bumping feature?
Listening to you and reviewing our usage data, it became clear that sharing music links wasn’t a great experience for you, our users. We have removed it for now to make the app simpler and easier to use.
Q. Why can’t I bump apps anymore?
Similar to music bumping, you made it clear that this was not a great feature and therefore, we have removed it to make the app simpler and easier to use.
Marketing tip: don't lie to your users in order to smoothen out the folds and creases, because that always rubs people the wrong way and always makes a company and its product look suspicious. Just say it like it is, "Sorry, guys. Copyright and anti piracy laws forced us to remove these features."
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
This makes it easy to see what is on your iPhone on your computer. It lets you authenticate without having to enter a username/password (less typing!) or having credential information already saved on that computer (which is a typical case if using someone else's computer.)
Why not just show a QR code on the screen and have the phone scan that. If it's been taking pictures, it can take one more :)
Because almost every single use of QR codes I've seen has been a terrible UX mistake. They're unwieldy, slow and annoying.
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#79I like the idea a lot. It's brilliant. Regarding the removal of the app- and music sharing feature, I noticed that it was the number one complaint and reason for a 1-star review in the app store, and then I saw this on their website: Q. What happened to the music bumping feature? Listening to you and reviewing our usage data, it became clear that sharing music links wasn’t a great experience for you, our users. We ha…
It's more complicated than that though. A few months back when they removed those features, they used that spin to turn it into some free publicity that made it sound like they were unconventionally responding to their users. Now they're stuck with that lie, which I'm sure rubs a lot of people the wrong way, but I'll bet it was worth it just to have their name in some memorable headlines.
Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
#80Now, make it go the other way! Info off pc to mobile..