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Putting aside the sarcasm and assuming it was inspired by twitpay, what exactly is the problem with that? Unless you also have a patented technology, being fir
by callmeed 18y ago
Putting aside the sarcasm and assuming it was inspired by twitpay, what exactly is the problem with that?
Unless you also have a patented technology, being first to market doesn't really matter.
Execution matters. Bragging rights don't pay the bills.
- ivey 18y agoNo one from Twitpay is complaining. Ivan gave me a heads-up about this a few days ago. TipJoy is a social platform for tipping people, that now has a Twitter hook. Twitpay is a payments platform built exclusively on Twitter, with some other interesting features in the works. It seems like overlap, but we're in pretty different spaces. I wish the discussion here had focused on TipJoy, and not veered off into this side of things...although I'm happy people know about Twitpay, too. We'll have our own HN threads for cool announcements soon enough. Congrats to Ivan and Abby for getting this out there.
- ntoshev 18y agoYou can define your market however you like, but as long as you fight over the same customers in the same context, you compete with each other. Of course, there is nothing wrong with that.
- ivankirigin 18y agoThe biggest threat to those that implement this functionality is twitter itself. If Twitter chooses to do their own payments, I doubt any efforts from Tipjoy or Twitpay could change behavior.