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Very cool base idea and could become something interesting. Initial thoughts: 1. Even assuming both person A and person B use the service within a week of eac
by dlivingston 8y ago
Very cool base idea and could become something interesting.
Initial thoughts:
1. Even assuming both person A and person B use the service within a week of each other, the odds that they both use the same hastag are astronomically low. Person A says '#wannaGoOut', but person B says '#IWantToGoOut'. There are way too many possible permutations of a single thought.
2. As another commenter said, the design is clean but feels like it belongs in 1995. It will not get off the ground looking like this. The basic layout is fine, but the colors and fonts need to go.
3. Without an app, I think you'll have a hard time gaining critical mass. If someone has a thought and all it takes to get it out onto Thoughter is to (i) open the app, (ii) type, (iii) and send, then it will be way more likely to be used.
4. This feels a bit like Craigslist Missed Connections. Not saying that's a good - or bad - thing, it just does.
5. What if I see a cute girl at a coffee store, we hit it off, but I don't have her email address - or even her name? What then?
- _bxg1 8y agoMachine learning could probably be used to fuzzy-match the contents (probably removing the need for the hashtag altogether). Of course, false-positives could cause problems.
- Bjartr 8y agoLevenshtein distance, an n-gram comparison, or similar might be good enough instead of having to invite a machine learning solution.
- vortico 8y ago1. The service will send an email to person A saying "Someone wants to #wannaGoOut". As long as person B doesn't make a typo when copying the hash tag, this problem is solved. 2. Yeah, it's a nod to certain eras of web design, which I like, but other people won't care so I agree. 3. It's email-based in order to make it work for recipients who don't have the app. 5. In 2019, it's probably best to support Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram as recipient addresses... somehow. Although most of those aren't technically possible. Those platforms aren't really great for building services on top of.
- wongarsu 8y ago> 1. The service will send an email to person A saying "Someone wants to #wannaGoOut". As long as person B doesn't make a typo when copying the hash tag, this problem is solved. That's only one of four possible settings, and using it breaks half of the examples: it works great for #reunite, not so great for #breakup
- celticninja 8y agoMy thoughts too on the breakup one, unless both partners have multiple relationships.
- streulpita 8y agoI built this service using Instagram before
- vortico 8y agoLink?
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- dougk16 8y agoThanks for your thoughts. > 1. Even assuming both person A and person B use the service within a week of each other, the odds that they both use the same hastag are astronomically low. Person A says '#wannaGoOut', but person B says '#IWantToGoOut'. There are way too many possible permutations of a single thought. My hope is that hashtags would become standardized, and hints (https://aytwit.com/thoughter#hints https://aytwit.com/thoughter#hints) will also help with this. > 3. Without an app, I think you'll have a hard time gaining critical mass. If someone has a thought and all it takes to get it out onto Thoughter is to (i) open the app, (ii) type, (iii) and send, then it will be way more likely to be used. Totally agree. An app would also allow the service to avoid email, and allow encryption on the client-side without the server seeing any plain text at all. Definitely a goal. > 5. What if I see a cute girl at a coffee store, we hit it off, but I don't have her email address - or even her name? What then? Good question! I don't have an answer unfortunately. Guess you gotta do things the old-fashioned way. :)
- Karrot_Kream 8y agoWould you be open to piggybacking on existing encrypted messengers, like Telegram and Signal? Maybe even WhatsApp (not sure how their API works). You could also build bots on Matrix.
- dougk16 8y agoYes! This is in the future plans section: https://aytwit.com/about#technical_details__future_plans https://aytwit.com/about#technical_details__future_plans I agree email is so five minutes ago, but it was the easiest path to get started.
- ducttapecrown 8y agoSell this to Snapchat
- vermilingua 8y agoThis really does fit perfectly with Snapchat’s MO of plausible deniability in messaging; and could be exactly what they need to gain an edge against Instagram. Seconding talking to Snap.
- Razengan 8y ago> What if I see a cute girl at a coffee store, we hit it off, but I don't have her email address - or even her name? What then? Something like Berkanan, a physical proximity-based messaging app that uses Bluetooth, may help. https://berkanan.chat/ https://berkanan.chat/
- romwell 8y agoThis sounds like an awesome idea! Too bad it's not available for Android. But that's how I found out about Firechat.
- tdurden 8y agoor try talking to her.
- coolreader18 8y agoPsssh, what is this, the 2000s?
- tendencydriven 8y agoanxiety intensifies
- Razengan 8y agoSome people do not have enough confidence to risk a public rejection.
- dual_basis 8y agoThen those people should work on building that confidence.