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Show HN: Facebook Photo Messaging that doesn't suck

18 points by libovness 14y ago

codewright 14y ago
Serious question: is this a clone of a clone of a clone? 2013: "Begun, this clone war has." - Yoda
- libovness 14y ago
  No, Snapix has actually been on the App Store for a year. v2.0 has been in development for awhile. Snapchat rose to prominence while we were about halfway through, and there are more similarities with the name than anything else. Besides, there's no way we could "clone" Poke and get it in the App Store in less than 24 hours :-) Better to think of it as "an idea whose time has come". That idea is "unicast- or multicast social networking", in contrast to "broadcast social networking".
  - codewright 14y ago
    Welp. Good luck!
    - libovness 14y ago
      Thanks!
libovness 14y ago
With all the hubbub about Facebook Poke - an app which enables you to do promiscuous things using your...real-world identity - which is a copy of the teen-craze Snapchat, now's the right time to showcase our FB photo messaging app, Snapix: http://snapwith.me http://snapwith.me Snapix has a public mode where you can view snaps between friends and/or strangers, as well as a private mode where no one can see you snap. And while we're being topical, I'll add a comparison to Instagram...Whereas Instagram helps you make your life more beautiful (than it really is), with Snapix we're trying to help people bring out the humor and absurdity in the world around us. Hibachi!
- nwh 14y ago
  I'm glad both HN and the App Store have a description like this; just presented with the site I'd have absolutely no idea what the app was trying to do.
  - libovness 14y ago
    Indeed, with the website our aim is just to pique visitors' interest. We leave the app description and metadata to the App Store, for better or worse. If we had time (it's a side project, after all) we'd measure whether that strategy actually works to our advantage. NWH, if you get the chance to download, please let us know what you think of the app. Just know that this is the major point release, not the proverbial sub-sub-point "bug fixes" release, so bear with us ;-)

18 points by libovness 14y ago

codewright 14y ago

Serious question: is this a clone of a clone of a clone? 2013: "Begun, this clone war has." - Yoda

libovness 14y ago
No, Snapix has actually been on the App Store for a year. v2.0 has been in development for awhile. Snapchat rose to prominence while we were about halfway through, and there are more similarities with the name than anything else. Besides, there's no way we could "clone" Poke and get it in the App Store in less than 24 hours :-) Better to think of it as "an idea whose time has come". That idea is "unicast- or multicast social networking", in contrast to "broadcast social networking".
- codewright 14y ago
  Welp. Good luck!
  - libovness 14y ago
    Thanks!

libovness 14y ago

With all the hubbub about Facebook Poke - an app which enables you to do promiscuous things using your...real-world identity - which is a copy of the teen-craze Snapchat, now's the right time to showcase our FB photo messaging app, Snapix: http://snapwith.me http://snapwith.me Snapix has a public mode where you can view snaps between friends and/or strangers, as well as a private mode where no one can see you snap. And while we're being topical, I'll add a comparison to Instagram...Whereas Instagram helps you make your life more beautiful (than it really is), with Snapix we're trying to help people bring out the humor and absurdity in the world around us. Hibachi!

nwh 14y ago
I'm glad both HN and the App Store have a description like this; just presented with the site I'd have absolutely no idea what the app was trying to do.
- libovness 14y ago
  Indeed, with the website our aim is just to pique visitors' interest. We leave the app description and metadata to the App Store, for better or worse. If we had time (it's a side project, after all) we'd measure whether that strategy actually works to our advantage. NWH, if you get the chance to download, please let us know what you think of the app. Just know that this is the major point release, not the proverbial sub-sub-point "bug fixes" release, so bear with us ;-)