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A few years ago I (jokingly) argued that the way to make a killer app today is to take something good and make it bad. Take YouTube and allow people to only up
by lucb1e 7y ago
A few years ago I (jokingly) argued that the way to make a killer app today is to take something good and make it bad.
Take YouTube and allow people to only upload videos of a few seconds: Vine
Create a blogging platform where people can write only 2-3 sentences per blog post: Twitter
The "Yo!" and "Die With Me" apps seem to fit right in.
- camjohnson26 7y agoInstagram with no persistence? Snapchat!
- perl4ever 7y agoWasn't there something where people were saying Uber or Lyft was increasing rates according to how little battery remained on your phone? Clearly what is needed is a new app to get a ride when your phone is about to die.
- Scoundreller 7y agoI think people were more likely to accept any surge premium when faced with low battery. Makes sense, they can’t wait it out, but could also be a proxy for poor planners or compulsions. They didn’t say they raised prices based on battery life, but I could see why they could.
- ge96 7y agorandom unrelated thought: What if your phone clocked itself down super low when it was about to die/killing all apps except one. Then it used this simple UI that has cached app processes/requests so it would just make that network request instead of going into the app/starting it... Ehh nvm makes no difference right? Probably barely any performance gains. Was thinking of that buy now button idea of Amazon. App-less apps Also expired tokens and what not