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The thing I don't get is why they thought Chatroulette was more than just a fad. Anyone could see that Chatroulette was a flavor of the month kind of thing that
by SFnoob 14y ago
The thing I don't get is why they thought Chatroulette was more than just a fad. Anyone could see that Chatroulette was a flavor of the month kind of thing that faded out right away.
Did they really think that taking Chatroulette and making it a super invasive fb app to minimize the amount of penises was the next big idea?
- citricsquid 14y agoChatroulette is still wildly popular, they have anywhere from 15k - 70k users online at any time. It's not what it once was and it's not a great business, but to say it's a "fad" is just plain wrong. I just loaded the site and I can see 52,000 people online.
- SFnoob 14y agoI stand corrected. But I still don't think chatroulette or a chatroulette derivative is the next big idea.
- eurleif 14y agoI think the story they told themselves was basically: Look at this graph! http://i.imgur.com/97fL8.png http://i.imgur.com/97fL8.png ChatRoulette was a rocketship to the stars, growing as fast as any social site could hope to... then it got filled with dicks, and people stopped using it. We just have to eliminate the dicks and it will be the best thing ever! But that's not really what happened. ChatRoulette was (and still is) popular as a legitimate social site, but it was such a rocketship mainly because it was so shocking. I was living in a college dorm during the time ChatRoulette was going viral, and I remember guys shouting in the hallway, "You have to see all these dicks!" The idea that ChatRoulette was suddenly besieged by dicks, causing it to lose popularity, is just fantasy.
- chatroulettefan 14y agoChatroulette keeps growing and other sites like http://chatrandom.com http://chatrandom.com & http://omegle.com http://omegle.com are doing just as well. I think people like the penises and that's why airtime never went anywhere!