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My shortcut to text my partner is called “Yo” and sends a “Yo”. Use it all the time. She knows when I’m leaving a store, or swinging by the house to pick her up
by jasonv 6y ago
My shortcut to text my partner is called “Yo” and sends a “Yo”. Use it all the time. She knows when I’m leaving a store, or swinging by the house to pick her up, or when we’re in a store and ready to meet at the checkout lanes.
I think frequently that the app could’ve survived and have been useful. The iterations they went through took it in less useful directions, but the idea itself didn’t need to die. Feels like a lost opportunity.
- andruby 6y agoBut how could they’ve monetized? Would you still use it with ads inserted?
- crtasm 6y agoMerch. Get your Yo baseball cap and coffee mug. Enjoying this line from the post: "At some level of abstraction, it’s Yo all the way down."
- boxed 6y agoSell it for the minimum prize?
- hengheng 6y agoWhat would be the cost of running it? How much would it take to make it profitable?
- primitivesuave 6y agoAs you enter a bar your phone buzzes. "I just got a Yo from Heineken!" If you're not disgusted at that point by an app tracking your location to sell you things, you will probably be more likely to order a Heineken.
- mhh__ 6y agoWhen you say monetized do you mean buy a car or buy an island type money. You could definitely market it well enough to sell some merchandise or similar, it's just not going to make you a billionaire.
- ackbar03 6y agoBut that's the problem because vc money got involved, at which point it essentially had to go big or go home
- jasonv 6y agoNot ads, but I'd pay not to have ads. I don't mind paying for apps. I also want a one-recipient-only chat app. I don't want to open Messages and 1) have to choose the recipient, 2) risk sending something to the wrong recipient. I'd pay for that. (Anyone want to work on a feature-opt-in [no images unless both parties opt-in to images], explicit/fixed recipient chat app?)
- renewiltord 6y agoThe idea didn't die, the app did survive. You can still use it.
- 1123581321 6y agoHah! I am basically like that with mine, but with “;)”. It goes through successive waves of being funny, useful and tiresome, which in itself is funny to me.