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Most of the spaghetti against the wall MVP from meta fails to gain any traction, and if it does it becomes a feature in a main app. Post year of efficiency it m
by mgiampapa 2y ago
Most of the spaghetti against the wall MVP from meta fails to gain any traction, and if it does it becomes a feature in a main app. Post year of efficiency it might happen again, but every successful Meta app outside of FB was an acquisition of an existing viable product. (Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram, Occulus) I was really hoping Portal was going to catch on, I really liked it and found it to be a great home VC platform.
- sureIy 2y ago> acquisition of an existing viable product. (Messenger, Messenger is native at Facebook. It's born on Facebook.com as a floating non-permanent window that only works when the other person is online. Wikipedia seems to confirm this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_(software)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_(software)#History I agree on the Portal, it's perfect to call my grandma. I dread the day it will stop working because the alternative is an iPad that is worse in nearly every way (as a tabletop VC device for grandma)
- mgiampapa 2y agoMessenger is a product born of an app called Beluga, https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/facebook-messenger-beluga/ https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/facebook-messen.... It wasn't an app where they took the userbase, but the app was bought and the team tasked to build Messenger. (Source, I worked at FB from 2009-2016)
- baxtr 2y agoThreads seems to be gaining some traction though.
- mgiampapa 2y agoThreads was a bolt on feature on top of Instagram. It may eventually have the umbilical cut, but I think the only reason it has any traction is because Musk is insane. Had Musk not lit 44 Billion dollars on fire, Threads wouldn't be a thing. So yeah, a black swan in play.
- baxtr 2y agoYeah but I mean come on, there are always market dynamics outside your control. The only thing you can do as a company is to react and sometimes exploit market dynamics. That’s what Meta did with Threads. You have to give em credit for that.
- mgiampapa 2y agoIDK, I think of market forces as being rational actors, but yeah I guess Threads may be their first "hit" of an internal product since Facebook itself.
- objclxt 2y ago> I was really hoping Portal was going to catch on, I really liked it and found it to be a great home VC platform. I worked on Portal and it came down to: 1. Cambridge Analytica. It is difficult to persuade people - and the media - you can be trusted to put a camera in their homes while you’re fighting a massive privacy scandal. 2. A leadership coup resulted in the project moving under Reality Labs, which never really wanted to be in the smart device business in the first place. There were a bunch of other issues, but these two basically doomed the project from the start, which is a shame as it was well received by those who actually bought it.
- NikolaNovak 2y agoPardon my ignorance, what's VC in this context? Given HN I keep reading it as a venture capital platform, but I don't think that's it :-/
- shaan7 2y agoMy guess would be Voice Control
- stevesimmons 2y agovideo calling
- tetris11 2y agoVulture Culture, the primary topic of all HN posts
- baxtr 2y agoVirtual Control
- mgiampapa 2y agoVideo Conferencing in the context of Portal