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A nearly empty webpage that lags like crazy is very bad promotion and makes me question whether they have the knowledge to create a high-traffic social network.

A nearly empty webpage that lags like crazy is very bad promotion and makes me question whether they have the knowledge to create a high-traffic social network. Also, the quote of the founder: Openbook is not only an evolutionary step for social networks, it's also a humanitarian project at world scale. Makes me want to vomit. You're making a website, not feeding hungry children.

pavs 8y ago
From their website: >In partnership with FoundersPledge, we'll be giving 30% of our revenue towards projects for education, sanitization, climate change prevention and more.
- bko 8y ago
  From the FAQ on their page: >Who's paying for everything so far? > So far we have been completely self funded. However, this has proven to be very hard. With most of us working full-time jobs apart from Openbook, it could take us long time till we release the first version and even then, we would not be able to afford the IT infrastructure needed to compete with any of the established networks. As we wanted the project to be driven by people and not capital, we decided to go for crowd-funding. We'll be launching our Kickstarter campaign on the 17th of July. They don't appear to have a revenue model. I'm not sure if they consider donations from kickstarter revenue, but so far its their only source. I don't think passing on 30% of donations to FoundersPledge is really changing the world
  - pavs 8y ago
    They are talking about future revenue generation. Kickstarted is being used as a fundraiser. They are probably trying something similar to ghost blogging platform. Whether they are successful or not is to be seen, but I am not enjoying how some people are unnecessarily shitting on their effort.
  - leavenotracks 8y ago
    Can't even get to their FAQ page at the moment, no links on their homepage seem to be working.
briandear 8y ago
It’s almost like this entire project was brought to us by Vooza. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2-L3Kgc6Y7E&t=89s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2-L3Kgc6Y7E&t=89s

pavs 8y ago

From their website: >In partnership with FoundersPledge, we'll be giving 30% of our revenue towards projects for education, sanitization, climate change prevention and more.

bko 8y ago
From the FAQ on their page: >Who's paying for everything so far? > So far we have been completely self funded. However, this has proven to be very hard. With most of us working full-time jobs apart from Openbook, it could take us long time till we release the first version and even then, we would not be able to afford the IT infrastructure needed to compete with any of the established networks. As we wanted the project to be driven by people and not capital, we decided to go for crowd-funding. We'll be launching our Kickstarter campaign on the 17th of July. They don't appear to have a revenue model. I'm not sure if they consider donations from kickstarter revenue, but so far its their only source. I don't think passing on 30% of donations to FoundersPledge is really changing the world
- pavs 8y ago
  They are talking about future revenue generation. Kickstarted is being used as a fundraiser. They are probably trying something similar to ghost blogging platform. Whether they are successful or not is to be seen, but I am not enjoying how some people are unnecessarily shitting on their effort.
- leavenotracks 8y ago
  Can't even get to their FAQ page at the moment, no links on their homepage seem to be working.

briandear 8y ago

It’s almost like this entire project was brought to us by Vooza. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2-L3Kgc6Y7E&t=89s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2-L3Kgc6Y7E&t=89s