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Ask HN: Does my idea have legs?
I am trying to validate interest in my idea. My landing page is here: https://hoggetaylor.github.io/tagged/ I hope that illustrates the idea well enough.
Is this something that you would use in your app? Does it solve a real problem?
(If this is an inappropriate place to ask for this type of feedback, could somebody point me to a useful alternative?)
- db48x 9y agoProbably not, if you have to show a demo instead of describing it.
- taylorhogge 9y agoI thought this is what the purpose of my landing page was for. But let me describe it. My idea is for a tool that helps developers add branded scannable tags to their app. Think snapcodes, spotifycodes, etc. Snapcodes are a killer feature for snapchat. However, they are very non-trivial to implement. I want to make this easier for app developers and charge money for that service. One concern I have is that my target audience, developers who want to add a snapcode like feature to their app, is probably relatively small.
- 27182818284 9y agoThere isn't a use case for me. Rather than scan something, it is easier to just enter some error-ridden version in to Google and let it give me the correct result. There is no sense in scanning anything when it takes as much time or less to just Google the same word.
- taylorhogge 9y agoRight this is a good point. I've had snapchat for years but have only ever actually scanned like one snapcode. But Snapchat does use it for some pretty cool marketing campaigns. See: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*kSlNrqD6D30K7gFcve-CTg.png https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*kSlNrqD6D30K7gFcv...
- pmontra 9y agoIt seems that those tags work only for people that have the corresponding app installed. So they are ok to share in app content but are useless for the rest of the world (which could drive install by curiosity.) I'm sure there are use cases but I don't have any to try it out. Be good at marketing and you might sell well.