The accidental genius of Yo • Hacker News Board

Re: The accidental genius of Yo

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 2:03 PM UTC

harryf wrote: post #36

Back when Yo was initially on the hype curve we created a clone for Switzerland called Hoi (a Swiss German way to say Hi) for a joke - link to some press we got below - one of the guys in the picture wasn’t even really involved we just included him and called him CEO to add to the craziness. Technically we had pretty good native iOS and Android apps, backend running on Parse.com (RIP). We got about 10K downloads unti…

AMP is a cancer on the internet [0].

Here's the non-Google-AMP version of your link: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/app-hoi-schweizer-klone...

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_g...

Re: The accidental genius of Yo

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Post by harryf » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 2:21 PM UTC

ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #91

harryf wrote: post #36

Back when Yo was initially on the hype curve we created a clone for Switzerland called Hoi (a Swiss German way to say Hi) for a joke - link to some press we got below - one of the guys in the picture wasn’t even really involved we just included him and called him CEO to add to the craziness. Technically we had pretty good native iOS and Android apps, backend running on Parse.com (RIP). We got about 10K downloads unti…

AMP is a cancer on the internet [0]. Here's the non-Google-AMP version of your link: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/app-hoi-schweizer-klone... [0] https://www.theregister.com/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_g...

I know but I get paywalled for some reason when I link directly to the article, and not via AMP

Re: The accidental genius of Yo

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Post by simonebrunozzi » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 4:02 PM UTC

delcaran wrote: post #20

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #2

Tangential, but I would be curious to know if "capiche" refers to the Italian "capisci?", which is Neapolitan dialect meaning "do you understand?".

It's not really Neapolitan, it's Italian plain and simple.

Not really. The soft "sc" with a mute "e" at the end is typical of souther Italian dialects, including neapolitan and sicilian.

When you say "capisc?", instead of "capisce?" (written: capisci?), Italians mostly feel that the word is said following a southern Italian dialect.

Re: The accidental genius of Yo

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Post by jasonv » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC

andruby wrote: post #18

jasonv wrote: post #3

My shortcut to text my partner is called “Yo” and sends a “Yo”. Use it all the time. She knows when I’m leaving a store, or swinging by the house to pick her up, or when we’re in a store and ready to meet at the checkout lanes. I think frequently that the app could’ve survived and have been useful. The iterations they went through took it in less useful directions, but the idea itself didn’t need to die. Feels like a…

But how could they’ve monetized? Would you still use it with ads inserted?

Not ads, but I'd pay not to have ads. I don't mind paying for apps.

I also want a one-recipient-only chat app. I don't want to open Messages and 1) have to choose the recipient, 2) risk sending something to the wrong recipient.

I'd pay for that. (Anyone want to work on a feature-opt-in [no images unless both parties opt-in to images], explicit/fixed recipient chat app?)