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(YC Winter08) Addher.com goes Beta
i cant wait to read the comments for this
- tipjoy 19y agonice touch, launching on v-day
- garbowza 19y agoGreat job on the design and keeping it going at a quick pace. You'll definitely get some people addicted. The distribution model is clearly a winner. Good job, Addhers ;-)
- immad 19y agoCongrats. I like it. I thought initially silly to not let men in, but now that i rethink it, its probably the right thing to do since women want to promote and men want to see hot chicks...
- alaskamiller 19y agoso women are attention whores and men are perverts?
- immad 19y ago:). At least I am fair against both sexes
- rms 19y agoI'm not quite sure I get the long term goals. Is there something beyond people adding themselves as a promotional tool? Also, there's a typo: when you click on "Click here to visit me" after voting, visit me is "vist me"
- zach 19y agoThe idea here is clearly whooshing over my head. I don't get why this is worth making.
- JaredRad 19y agoYeah, whats the added value over HotOrNot? It's executed very well, but at its core it seems like a HotOrNot knockoff. Can someone explain it to me?
- garbowza 19y agoThink distribution. HotOrNot is a single site, which coincidentally just sold for $20 million. AddHer is distributed across all social networks. It's all about distribution, and as the AddHer team executes the rest of their plans (whatever those may be), they'll have millions of users at their fingertips.
- alaskamiller 19y agosomeone drank a bit too much "the widget is the platform" koolaid
- h34t 19y agoThe idea of embeddable-apps-in-a-box, or "the widget is the platform", seems pretty compelling to me. What are your reasons for thinking it's over-hyped? I don't find the "most widgets are trivial" argument compelling; the large portion of the internet devoted to porn doesn't detract from the rest of it, and likewise, the uselessness of unpopular widgets doesn't detract from usefulness of popular ones. I really like Google's widget advertising service that let you dive deep into content without leaving a page. For example, I watched all 6 video clips on a National Geographic widget ad for their new "6 degrees" show. I'd have never navigated to another page to do the same thing. I think we're just at the beginning of widget up-take... but I could be wrong, and would like to hear the arguments from the other side (perhaps there good discussions of this elsewhere already?)
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- ryan 19y agoNice work, I see this getting a lot of traction
- jamescoops 19y agolove the design - great to see the standard menu of web 2.0 stuff (photo sharing) start to get a new twist as people have pointed out the distributed approach could be v. powerful big ups
- staticshock 19y agoone of the questions in the widget has a typo: "who get's more action" (for the ill informed, it should be "gets")
- ivankirigin 19y agoI think people are looking at the cleavage more. I certainly didn't notice the typo :)
- mpc 19y agoI really feel like it's inevitable that stuff like this is going to catch on in a major way. I think that an app that would allow people to create one-off games and polls could be even more popular. Nice work!
- dskhatri 19y agoI can see how this has huge revenue potential ala Hot or Not and a great potential to go viral. Catchy names (addHer, addmired) too! You should try harder not to look like another Hot or Not! The jittering photos are a little annoying!
- gustaf 19y agoThis is awesome, congrats to launching!