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I think they're aiming at the wrong market. If my Facebook feed is anything to go by teenagers absolutely love new chat applications, but the reason they love t
by citricsquid 15y ago
I think they're aiming at the wrong market. If my Facebook feed is anything to go by teenagers absolutely love new chat applications, but the reason they love them is because their friends introduce them. Although yes the requirement to register is a barrier to entry, it's a good one, it makes your users invested in pushing their friends into using it. You took away the element that makes these applications successful. Aim it at teenagers, provide an incentive to use it and then drop the sms thing, then you'll take off (if you're lucky!)
- derefr 15y ago> Aim it at teenagers, provide an incentive to use it and then drop the sms thing "Okay, I have an idea: CSI, with robots, in space." "Okay, that's great! But... how about if they weren't robots, and it was in a regular Earth-bound police department?" "So, you mean... CSI." Seriously, now, if you remove every bit of what makes the application unique, then why should they be building that application any more? Why not build something that they do have a unique value proposition for instead?
- citricsquid 15y agoIf they want to build this then they should accept nobody will use it. They're complaining nobody uses it so I assumed they wanted people to use it.
- mnutt 15y agoWhat they describe is almost exactly GroupMe, circa 2010. Group chat app, uses SMS so it works on non-smart phones, no signup required--just text /add [number] to add someone to the group, and they're auto-joined. Not to say it'll work for them, or that things haven't changed since 2010, (group chat market saturation, more smartphones) but it was a pretty good idea at one point.
- stangeek 15y agoWe agree, but maybe we're wrong...