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Ask HN: What is App.net? I really didn't get it

4 points by arunoda 14y ago

andrewfelix 14y ago
The website explains it perfectly well https://join.app.net/ https://join.app.net/ Watch the video.
- ashcairo 14y ago
  I still don't get it?
- arunoda 14y ago
  No way. I watched the video. Its lengthy and he didn't tell me exactly what it is?
tree_of_item 14y ago
It isn't anything, besides a guy asking for half a million dollars because he thinks he can get away with it by throwing some buzz words about Twitter around.
- csense 14y ago
  A thousand times, this. There's no way I'm donating, when he can't even clearly express the problem he's trying to solve, let alone how his solution is supposed to be better than Twitter.
voxx 14y ago
If you don't get it, then why do you need to know? Obviously it wasn't clear enough to attract your attention, so why waste your time with a product that can't even explain itself clearly? That's my thinking anyways.
- iamdave 14y ago
  This thing called curiosity. It's not a bad trait to have, actually.
  - voxx 14y ago
    Yeah well, I'm a cat, I steer clear of such mysterious paradigms.
- arunoda 14y ago
  He got my attention some how. That's why I'm interested on this :) But he didn't convince me about what it exactly does? That's why I just asked. Sometimes this discussion might help him to create a good web copy for http://app.net http://app.net and get more paying users for his product. (I think there may have lot of people like me)
hobonumber1 14y ago
From what I know, App.Net is some sort of a real-time social network that is not ad-supported. Instead, it is a paid service that you subscribe to. Pros: Developers work to please the user (you), not the advertisers. No ads. Cons: Not free. Harder to get traction (because it's not free) Why? Because their view is that current projects don't focus to please users.
- arunoda 14y ago
  Ok got. Its a paid twitter. Then who's gonna pay for that, users or devs? if devs who bring the users?
csense 14y ago
I didn't get it either. It seems sorta like RSS. Here's the API spec: https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec If you're using it to talk directly to users, it'll be tough to beat free social networks, because that's where the traction is. If you're using it as the back-end of an app, it'll be tough to beat something like Celery (https://github.com/celery/celery https://github.com/celery/celery), or a hand-rolled MySQL solution. Seriously, if you look at the API tree, anyone who knows anything about databases can probably hack something with similar functionality together in a day (minus UI). The one point that app.net might have in its favor is scalability -- if it "just works" when you have a gazillion users. app.net would be a lot more comprehensible if the author listed a few sample application ideas and told what pain points app.net was supposed to solve.

4 points by arunoda 14y ago

andrewfelix 14y ago

The website explains it perfectly well https://join.app.net/ https://join.app.net/ Watch the video.

ashcairo 14y ago
I still don't get it?
arunoda 14y ago
No way. I watched the video. Its lengthy and he didn't tell me exactly what it is?

tree_of_item 14y ago

It isn't anything, besides a guy asking for half a million dollars because he thinks he can get away with it by throwing some buzz words about Twitter around.

csense 14y ago
A thousand times, this. There's no way I'm donating, when he can't even clearly express the problem he's trying to solve, let alone how his solution is supposed to be better than Twitter.

voxx 14y ago

If you don't get it, then why do you need to know? Obviously it wasn't clear enough to attract your attention, so why waste your time with a product that can't even explain itself clearly? That's my thinking anyways.

iamdave 14y ago
This thing called curiosity. It's not a bad trait to have, actually.
- voxx 14y ago
  Yeah well, I'm a cat, I steer clear of such mysterious paradigms.
arunoda 14y ago
He got my attention some how. That's why I'm interested on this :) But he didn't convince me about what it exactly does? That's why I just asked. Sometimes this discussion might help him to create a good web copy for http://app.net http://app.net and get more paying users for his product. (I think there may have lot of people like me)

hobonumber1 14y ago

From what I know, App.Net is some sort of a real-time social network that is not ad-supported. Instead, it is a paid service that you subscribe to. Pros: Developers work to please the user (you), not the advertisers. No ads. Cons: Not free. Harder to get traction (because it's not free) Why? Because their view is that current projects don't focus to please users.

arunoda 14y ago
Ok got. Its a paid twitter. Then who's gonna pay for that, users or devs? if devs who bring the users?

csense 14y ago

I didn't get it either. It seems sorta like RSS. Here's the API spec: https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec If you're using it to talk directly to users, it'll be tough to beat free social networks, because that's where the traction is. If you're using it as the back-end of an app, it'll be tough to beat something like Celery (https://github.com/celery/celery https://github.com/celery/celery), or a hand-rolled MySQL solution. Seriously, if you look at the API tree, anyone who knows anything about databases can probably hack something with similar functionality together in a day (minus UI). The one point that app.net might have in its favor is scalability -- if it "just works" when you have a gazillion users. app.net would be a lot more comprehensible if the author listed a few sample application ideas and told what pain points app.net was supposed to solve.