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An Open Question to Path: What distinguishes your app from Instagram?

31 points by codybrown 16y ago

kingsidharth 16y ago
Even the kids know that. "50 is the new .edu" Exclusivity & Privacy. You can be yourself. Instagram adds cool effects and helps you share. Did you even read about them?
- Sparklin 16y ago
  Quoting from Techcrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/14/path-photo-sharing/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/14/path-photo-sharing/) "Path is a private photo sharing network - think Instagram, but without the filters and with a privacy model that takes away any anxiety associated with sharing photos with people you don’t know. It’s based around email addresses and phone numbers, rather than a public database of users. And compared to other popular social applications, Path is going against the grain: there’s no follow system and the friend system is also quite different from what you’re used to on Facebook."
  - jambo 16y ago
    If you read the NYT article, selling filters and selling you to advertisers are business models being considered right now. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/technology/15photo.html?partner=rss&emc=rss http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/technology/15photo.html?pa...
- codybrown 16y ago
  "50 is the new .edu" or "50 is the new MySpace top 8"
paulgerhardt 16y ago
What distinguishes Canon from Nikon? Having used both services for a few months, I would say I only post "artsy" photos to Instagram, ruthlessly filtering on aesthetics while I find myself posting "inside jokes" to close friends on Path. It's probably less interesting to quibble about how these apps are different than it is to ask why are the apps taking off now in the first place? Is the next generation of photography hardware agnostic, relying instead on the social features? Overall, what do people take more photos of: art or their friends? If that is the case, betting on the Facebook guys may not be such a bad move...
cb33 16y ago
"Why would you need this many employees to build this?" How many employees at Path?
- gurraman 16y ago
  https://www.path.com/about https://www.path.com/about 13 listed on their about-page.
tkanet 16y ago
As far as intimacy and close privacy are concerned...why not just go email. People will upload these "intimate or personal" pictures ...and then later complain about privacy concerns. Why all this struggle and buzz. If you want privacy, stay offline or go email.no need for a new app for that. Seriously.
techbio 16y ago
Now, now, children. There are enough cookies to go around.
moxiemk1 16y ago
This question assumes that there is something valuable that Instagram does that Path is "copying" in some way. Instagram does a good job of quickly taking photos, applying filters, and then uploading them to your choice of social photo sites. That's something any number of us here could code up in an afternoon with all the APIs and toolkits available on the iPhone/these services.
jdavid 16y ago
Dunbar's number is real. However the truth of the number is from research of Apes. I am excited for Path, but until it works on Palm Pre and Android, it just wont be for me and my friends.

31 points by codybrown 16y ago

Even the kids know that. "50 is the new .edu" Exclusivity & Privacy. You can be yourself. Instagram adds cool effects and helps you share. Did you even read about them?

Sparklin 16y ago
Quoting from Techcrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/14/path-photo-sharing/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/14/path-photo-sharing/) "Path is a private photo sharing network - think Instagram, but without the filters and with a privacy model that takes away any anxiety associated with sharing photos with people you don’t know. It’s based around email addresses and phone numbers, rather than a public database of users. And compared to other popular social applications, Path is going against the grain: there’s no follow system and the friend system is also quite different from what you’re used to on Facebook."
- jambo 16y ago
  If you read the NYT article, selling filters and selling you to advertisers are business models being considered right now. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/technology/15photo.html?partner=rss&emc=rss http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/technology/15photo.html?pa...
codybrown 16y ago
"50 is the new .edu" or "50 is the new MySpace top 8"

paulgerhardt 16y ago

What distinguishes Canon from Nikon? Having used both services for a few months, I would say I only post "artsy" photos to Instagram, ruthlessly filtering on aesthetics while I find myself posting "inside jokes" to close friends on Path. It's probably less interesting to quibble about how these apps are different than it is to ask why are the apps taking off now in the first place? Is the next generation of photography hardware agnostic, relying instead on the social features? Overall, what do people take more photos of: art or their friends? If that is the case, betting on the Facebook guys may not be such a bad move...

cb33 16y ago

"Why would you need this many employees to build this?" How many employees at Path?

gurraman 16y ago
https://www.path.com/about https://www.path.com/about 13 listed on their about-page.

tkanet 16y ago

As far as intimacy and close privacy are concerned...why not just go email. People will upload these "intimate or personal" pictures ...and then later complain about privacy concerns. Why all this struggle and buzz. If you want privacy, stay offline or go email.no need for a new app for that. Seriously.

techbio 16y ago

Now, now, children. There are enough cookies to go around.

moxiemk1 16y ago

This question assumes that there is something valuable that Instagram does that Path is "copying" in some way. Instagram does a good job of quickly taking photos, applying filters, and then uploading them to your choice of social photo sites. That's something any number of us here could code up in an afternoon with all the APIs and toolkits available on the iPhone/these services.

jdavid 16y ago

Dunbar's number is real. However the truth of the number is from research of Apes. I am excited for Path, but until it works on Palm Pre and Android, it just wont be for me and my friends.