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

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.