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Bad move for not having a web version. I just don't feel like downloading apps nowadays. A few of my friends are also like that.

• whatever_dude 10y ago
  You're probably not the target audience. I'd bet ~98% of the people on HN aren't. The app is aiming at the Instagram, Snapchat crowd. Instagram didn't have a web front until recently, Snapchat still doesn't.
  • Kadin 10y ago
    I have no idea who they think they're targeting but there's still a huge amount of friction involved in getting users to install an app. I don't think that a younger audience is immune to that.
    • whatever_dude 10y ago
      Have you seen kids using Instagram and (especially) SnapChat? Younger generations have a very different relationship to their devices than someone born, say, in the 70's or 80's has. They care very little about websites.
      • mbrock 10y ago
        Instagram and Snapchat made names for themselves by being novel, simple, immediate... You can explain in one sentence to your friends what's cool about them: "you can make your photos look great and see your friend's photos" and "you send quick selfies and they're deleted in like ten seconds so you don't have to care so much". This hello.com seems like a much broader kind of "social network" that I would have a hard time getting any of my friends or family to try, I think.
• djsumdog 10y ago
  No web version which also means there's probably noting really new or revolutionary. No federation. Not open. I've been messing with some of the old federated projects that never seemed to go anywhere. GNU Social, Diaosapra, etc. I'd like to just get a few nerd friends on one, just to say I'm at least trying to get away from the current model. Hello just looks like another ello.
  • erlehmann_ 10y ago
    The real federated social platform is WordPress, which has millions of deployments and serves a quarter of the most popular websites: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all/ https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management... I still remember the time around ten years ago when a lot of people had independent blogs mostly free of clickbait and advertising. Nowadays, many post on social media only.
    • kordless 10y ago
      Wordpress is not a federated platform, unless one wants to redefine federation.
      • erlehmann_ 10y ago
        In networked software, to be federated means users are able to send messages from one independent deployment to the other. In WordPress, this is achieved using linkbacks and feeds. So how would you define federation?
        • pjbrunet 10y ago
          After Gravatars, I figured they'd try to disrupt Facebook with some kind of P2P plugin, like a Fidonet. But it never happened. Instead we got Disqus and IntenseDebate and bbPress...
      • djsumdog 10y ago
        RSS can be considered a federated protocol, maybe...if you stretch the definition. With RSS, you can subscribe to feeds with any standard reader. Interestingly enough, YouTube channels all have RSS feeds, so you can subscribe to them without needing to do so via a Google account.