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Your comments touch upon a challenge we had when deciding how to market Tenta. At the end of the day, we want this to have mainstream appeal, which means everyo
by tenta 10y ago
Your comments touch upon a challenge we had when deciding how to market Tenta. At the end of the day, we want this to have mainstream appeal, which means everyone should feel comfortable using and understanding the browser and not necessarily have to know or care how the tech works, but that it simply works. For example, a good test we went through during development was to ask our own parents to review it, to make sure non-tech savvy folks understood the main points and were willing to try this out. Having said that, as I mention below, we are acutely aware that we have a trust and reputation issue since we're brand new. We'll supplement our site with a more technical blog and provide in-depth descriptions of how each feature works and our philosophy behind it.
So I totally understand your concern and we'll do our best to address it. If there's anything specific that you'd love for us to write about on our blog, let us know.
- joecool1029 10y agoI don't know why you're marketing this outside of your background. If the average internet user cared very much about state/company privacy we'd have riots in the streets. But alas, we don't. The average HN reader is going to care a lot more about privacy, but they're going to want you to give tech specifics, they won't blindly adopt this based on marketing whizzbang. Since you're from the adult background, why not market this browser to people wanting to view porn at work and not get caught? I'm sure it'd get a lot more adoption since legitimate use case, realistic goals.
- tenta 10y agoWe'll provide the tech specifics too. We know that's super important. Yeah we're not going to run from our background. But having experience in that industry for so long, we already know it will do well there. We're also planning to reach out to people who already use and love incognito mode, ad blockers, vpns/proxies, etc. And to your first point, part of our job now is to do our part in educating people why privacy matters and why Tenta exists. For example, explain why tools like your average browser's incognito mode is useless. That term is completely misleading/false and we will redefine the standard for what it means to be incognito mode.