How are you going to sell it?
How are you going to sell it? There's an age-old issue with making money with social networks. Either you allow people to be free-loaders and make it totally free, or you sell your users to keep it afloat. Why do I want it? It seems like... Instagram. Just, that. Let me illustrate by analyzing the main value prop: "Must is a free lifestyle photo recommendation app for discovering, capturing, and sharing new experiences across the world." So: * free: (above) * lifestyle: so like, anything from awesome to anodyne? I would think you'd only want to reward things that other people think are cool, as a social network. * recommendation: you can't sell personalization as a product. You can try after five years of having a product, maybe. But as an MVP you have *literally no data.* * capturing, sharing: so, Instagram. * new experiences: so, just photos? Or do you have a cool trick up your sleeve? This spot could be your saving grace: if you find a new way to capture events like Snapchat did with 7-second videos, then *everything else written here is invalid.* Otherwise, *yawn.* * across the world: these three words are wasting my time. Don't waste time. With the advent of the Internet, basically every startup could say this. Why don't they? Because it's a waste of time. Hopefully this doesn't come across as ranty and horrible because I would like to see you succeed. (In fact, I'm being somewhat nice. If you caught a YC partner on a bad day with something like this, you might get something a little worse. ;) I wish you luck.
Posted by striking on Mar 16, 2015, 2:14 PM
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> Clean room.
NewI left Gnome 3 for Mate early on and I never looked back, but here are the issues I remember.
Yay, I found my people… I switch between Android and iPhone every few cycles, and I really do miss my swipe keyboard on Android.
> LLMs to me are just another tool.
I used to be one of those people that would countdown the hours to Apple's launch events and tune in for the live stream.
> "Over the years it has been clear that we in the “open source” camp (as opposed to the “free software” camp) were wrong all along.
> So you trusted 22-year-old coffee junkies copying and pasting from stack overflow 10 years ago Absolutely yes...
I don't want to Godwin this thread so early, but you know what analogy I'm thinking of.
How are you going to sell it?
How are you going to sell it? There's an age-old issue with making money with social networks. Either you allow people to be free-loaders and make it totally free, or you sell your users to keep it afloat. Why do I want it? It seems like... Instagram. Just, that. Let me illustrate by analyzing the main value prop: "Must is a free lifestyle photo recommendation app for discovering, capturing, and sharing new experiences across the world." So: * free: (above) * lifestyle: so like, anything from awesome to anodyne? I would think you'd only want to reward things that other people think are cool, as a social network. * recommendation: you can't sell personalization as a product. You can try after five years of having a product, maybe. But as an MVP you have *literally no data.* * capturing, sharing: so, Instagram. * new experiences: so, just photos? Or do you have a cool trick up your sleeve? This spot could be your saving grace: if you find a new way to capture events like Snapchat did with 7-second videos, then *everything else written here is invalid.* Otherwise, *yawn.* * across the world: these three words are wasting my time. Don't waste time. With the advent of the Internet, basically every startup could say this. Why don't they? Because it's a waste of time. Hopefully this doesn't come across as ranty and horrible because I would like to see you succeed. (In fact, I'm being somewhat nice. If you caught a YC partner on a bad day with something like this, you might get something a little worse. ;) I wish you luck.
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