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Since Nir didn't bother telling me what Pinterest actually does, I checked for myself, and it appears to be... a Tumblr clone. A Tumblr clone with $27 million,

Since Nir didn't bother telling me what Pinterest actually does, I checked for myself, and it appears to be... a Tumblr clone. A Tumblr clone with $27 million, and a bunch of users, but so what? What are they actually doing any different from Tumblr?

danielharan 15y ago
Your behaviour is exactly what is described in the article. There has to be something different, since users are joining Pinterest in droves. Non-techie women on my FB feed are raving about it. How about you ask passionate users of Pinterest why they find it so fun?
- Turing_Machine 15y ago
  "Non-techie women on my FB feed are raving about it." Exactly my experience. The pins I see in my FB feed are almost exclusively from women, and are almost all non-technical (fashion and home decor seem to be very popular). I've never seen anything with this level of uptake for that audience, except maybe Facebook itself. Pinterest gets non-techie women. It's going to be huge, IMO.
tadruj 15y ago
Pinterest is a design oriented pin-board which focuses on curation not creation like Thumblr.
rjd 15y ago
But so what? very few websites are much more than CRUD + validation with some analytics thrown in to make money. If you're lucky there maybe some curly business logic to deal with, but generally not. The main difference between one company and the next is the hype/cool factor. With a comment toned like yours it leads to the point that many developers are interested in personal ego than actual software.
hornbaker 15y ago
If Pinterest continues their exponential growth rate, they will pass Tumblr like they're standing still in the next few months: http://i.imgur.com/bmrdx.png http://i.imgur.com/bmrdx.png I'd proffer that it doesn't really matter what they're doing different from Tumblr; whatever they're doing is working and organically engaging a very large number of users. Try their service if you want to see what state-of-the-art social onboarding feels like circa 2012.

danielharan 15y ago

Your behaviour is exactly what is described in the article. There has to be something different, since users are joining Pinterest in droves. Non-techie women on my FB feed are raving about it. How about you ask passionate users of Pinterest why they find it so fun?

Turing_Machine 15y ago
"Non-techie women on my FB feed are raving about it." Exactly my experience. The pins I see in my FB feed are almost exclusively from women, and are almost all non-technical (fashion and home decor seem to be very popular). I've never seen anything with this level of uptake for that audience, except maybe Facebook itself. Pinterest gets non-techie women. It's going to be huge, IMO.

tadruj 15y ago

Pinterest is a design oriented pin-board which focuses on curation not creation like Thumblr.

rjd 15y ago

But so what? very few websites are much more than CRUD + validation with some analytics thrown in to make money. If you're lucky there maybe some curly business logic to deal with, but generally not. The main difference between one company and the next is the hype/cool factor. With a comment toned like yours it leads to the point that many developers are interested in personal ego than actual software.

hornbaker 15y ago

If Pinterest continues their exponential growth rate, they will pass Tumblr like they're standing still in the next few months: http://i.imgur.com/bmrdx.png http://i.imgur.com/bmrdx.png I'd proffer that it doesn't really matter what they're doing different from Tumblr; whatever they're doing is working and organically engaging a very large number of users. Try their service if you want to see what state-of-the-art social onboarding feels like circa 2012.