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And with that idea, lies the grain of "truth": if you want friends, you have to buy them things or time. Is this "service" going to recommend going to the park

And with that idea, lies the grain of "truth": if you want friends, you have to buy them things or time. Is this "service" going to recommend going to the park to watch free movies? Or how about free concerts? Or how about meeting up at hackerspaces on open house nights? Or encourage the hundreds of free things happening in a city at any one time? Or what about someone hosting a house party, and staying away from bars and club style events? You can't make money on free. I'm sure it'll be given lip service. And there's juicy data there that can be siphoned, correlated, and sold to the highest bidder. What's the chances of this complying with the GDPR? This is how you degrade friendship to tit-for-tat in a business deal. It's just another adtech business that attempts to attack and hijack friend relationships by sneaking in the back door.

CharlesColeman 7y ago
> And with that idea, lies the grain of "truth": if you want friends, you have to buy them things or time. My thoughts exactly. Sorry I preempted your point with the edit to my comment. > Is this "service" going to recommend going to the park to watch free movies?... Or to take it even further: taking a walk in a park, stopping by to say hello, meeting to chat. I'd say some of the most important components of friendship aren't even "things to do."
com2kid 7y ago
> Is this "service" going to recommend going to the park to watch free movies? Or how about free concerts? Or how about meeting up at hackerspaces on open house nights? ... Or what about someone hosting a house party, and staying away from bars and club style events? #1 goal is to keep people on the platform. Without users, there is nothing. To keep the lights on, only ~10% of what is on the platform needs to be revenue generating. Everything else is about bringing people together. Open house nights are harder, people tend to feel unsafe when an app leads them into someone else's personal space. As I mentioned in another reply, v1 is about externally created events, future features are around what you are describing. But an existing user base with enough critical mass has to exist before it becomes possible to have people successfully create their own events. > What's the chances of this complying with the GDPR? Very high, I am super paranoid about privacy. As an example of this paranoia, when user's join a pre-event chat room, they are all given a unique UID for that chat room. A mapping table is created in the DB, tracking their real user id to the chatroom's user ID. The user's actual user ID is never sent to other users. After 30 days, the entry in the mapping table is deleted. Everything is like that, end to end, when a user taps "delete profile" every trace of their existence is removed. The only thing kept around are the aggregate review scores they contributed, the "+1" ratings on some particular event is fun, which has no connection to the user. > It's just another adtech business that attempts to attack and hijack friend relationships by sneaking in the back door. I'm boot strapping this myself because I believe an alternative to sitting inside on a Saturday night watching streaming pixels fly needs to exist.

CharlesColeman 7y ago

> And with that idea, lies the grain of "truth": if you want friends, you have to buy them things or time. My thoughts exactly. Sorry I preempted your point with the edit to my comment. > Is this "service" going to recommend going to the park to watch free movies?... Or to take it even further: taking a walk in a park, stopping by to say hello, meeting to chat. I'd say some of the most important components of friendship aren't even "things to do."

com2kid 7y ago

> Is this "service" going to recommend going to the park to watch free movies? Or how about free concerts? Or how about meeting up at hackerspaces on open house nights? ... Or what about someone hosting a house party, and staying away from bars and club style events? #1 goal is to keep people on the platform. Without users, there is nothing. To keep the lights on, only ~10% of what is on the platform needs to be revenue generating. Everything else is about bringing people together. Open house nights are harder, people tend to feel unsafe when an app leads them into someone else's personal space. As I mentioned in another reply, v1 is about externally created events, future features are around what you are describing. But an existing user base with enough critical mass has to exist before it becomes possible to have people successfully create their own events. > What's the chances of this complying with the GDPR? Very high, I am super paranoid about privacy. As an example of this paranoia, when user's join a pre-event chat room, they are all given a unique UID for that chat room. A mapping table is created in the DB, tracking their real user id to the chatroom's user ID. The user's actual user ID is never sent to other users. After 30 days, the entry in the mapping table is deleted. Everything is like that, end to end, when a user taps "delete profile" every trace of their existence is removed. The only thing kept around are the aggregate review scores they contributed, the "+1" ratings on some particular event is fun, which has no connection to the user. > It's just another adtech business that attempts to attack and hijack friend relationships by sneaking in the back door. I'm boot strapping this myself because I believe an alternative to sitting inside on a Saturday night watching streaming pixels fly needs to exist.