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It makes about as much sense as twitter does.
by axod 17y ago
It makes about as much sense as twitter does.
- Gormo 17y agoYup. I'm just amazed that these companies keep finding capital. Didn't we learn anything from the dotcom bubble?
- mwerty 17y agoI think what we learned was that its really hard to tell 'which' crazy idea will make it. Even google was dismissed as a feature, not a company.
- mattmaroon 17y agoI don't think that's entirely fair. Twitter has some purposes other than sheer vanity. Sharing links, 1 to many communication, etc. Don't get me wrong, I don't care for Twitter myself. I don't use it, and I do find most of it to be trite and little more than navel gazing. But I can see some useful signal on Twitter, I just cannot see how it could not get buried under an avalanche of noise. Blippy seems totally vacuous.
- axod 17y agoSharing details of things you've purchased is immediately monetizable. If they can get users using it, it's trivial to make it insanely profitable. I can see it catching on with kids definitely.
- Gormo 17y agoI can definitely see the value from a sales/marketing perspective, but the trick is getting people using this. They're going to have a pretty big challenge consistently delivering value to their users and not becoming at best an ephemeral fad.
- raintrees 17y agoFrom comments I have heard Leo Laport making on his TWIT podcast, he uses the service and has found several products he has happily bought when other users on Blippy brought them to his attention. I am also keeping in mind that there are many jokes in the podcasts about Mr. Laport's proclivity to purchase tech items, at times in quantity, as an early-early adopter.
- bad_user 17y ago> I can see it catching on with kids definitely. Kids that don't have a credit card?
- axod 17y agoBy kids I mean people in their 20s. Now I feel old.
- messel 17y agoIs Twitter that much different than HN? They're both collective link sharing filters albeit we get sweet threaded comments and peanut gallery points here