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congrats! Two questions: 1. Why is the app called Recommend it and not Refer.ly? 2. You seem to focus on different use cases than with the web site, for power
by dirkdk 14y ago
congrats!
Two questions:
1. Why is the app called Recommend it and not Refer.ly?
2. You seem to focus on different use cases than with the web site, for power users that share more instead of all users. What was the rationale behind that? Ebay or Amazon apps do both.
- dmor 14y ago1. We think this app is awesome for our power users, the curators, but the majority of our users are actually shoppers so we wanted to reserve the right to create a canonical "Referly app" for them down the road. Long term most UGC communities only have 1-2% contributors 2. It is really an issue of focus, to build a marketplace we have to nurture both sides but in the early days it is difficult to do both well. You raise one side up, make it good enough, go work on the other side, then switch. That's the approach we are taking and right now most of what we have launched is really for the power user who is doing the sharing.
- dirkdk 14y agomakes sense, thanks for the explanation. Interesting to see your take on the 2 sides. Now you should build a mobile optimized web site for the regular users!
- kevin_morrill 14y agoYeah, improving the mobile browser experience is definitely on our radar.