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It's certainly why I haven't touched it. I suppose not having ads is nice, but it still seems to have the same fundamental problems that FB/Twitter/G+/et al hav

by SCdF 14y ago

It's certainly why I haven't touched it. I suppose not having ads is nice, but it still seems to have the same fundamental problems that FB/Twitter/G+/et al have. I really want something like tent.io to succeed (and when my time frees up shortly I'm considering playing around in that space) but I don't quite think anyone's figured out how to make these open frameworks be as user friendly and seemless as these convenient friendly silos. App.net seems like the answer to a question, just not a question many people are asking.

jacques_chester 14y ago
Which worries me, I have a different business model with a similar problem: getting pay people to pay to use stuff that they can sorta-kinda use for free.
- SCdF 14y ago
  As do I. Well. As did I. I've pretty much canned the idea at this stage, because I'd love to build this thing, but the three funding options seem to be angel, subscriptions or ads. The first and third make me behooven to someone else; the third would also require (if I wanted to do it right) writing a ad-engine backend and actually hiring people to source ads and crap like that. Subs would be awesome, but since my app neither makes you money or gets you laid I don't see anyone paying for it.
  - jacques_chester 14y ago
    When I get my stuff cooking, I'll be able to help people just like you. All I need is zillions of dollars and for a 30 month patent process to run a smidge faster.
abcd_f 14y ago
I don't understand the problem with Twitter ads. A simple script gets rid of all Twitter website junk quietly and automatically. No Promoted tweets, no "You may want to follow" nags, no "Now trending" junk. Nothing, but a stream of tweets from those I follow. I realize that making people pay to use the service is likely to attract a different user base, but the lack of ads doesn't really move a needle a bit.

by SCdF 14y ago

jacques_chester 14y ago

Which worries me, I have a different business model with a similar problem: getting pay people to pay to use stuff that they can sorta-kinda use for free.

SCdF 14y ago
As do I. Well. As did I. I've pretty much canned the idea at this stage, because I'd love to build this thing, but the three funding options seem to be angel, subscriptions or ads. The first and third make me behooven to someone else; the third would also require (if I wanted to do it right) writing a ad-engine backend and actually hiring people to source ads and crap like that. Subs would be awesome, but since my app neither makes you money or gets you laid I don't see anyone paying for it.
- jacques_chester 14y ago
  When I get my stuff cooking, I'll be able to help people just like you. All I need is zillions of dollars and for a 30 month patent process to run a smidge faster.

abcd_f 14y ago

I don't understand the problem with Twitter ads. A simple script gets rid of all Twitter website junk quietly and automatically. No Promoted tweets, no "You may want to follow" nags, no "Now trending" junk. Nothing, but a stream of tweets from those I follow. I realize that making people pay to use the service is likely to attract a different user base, but the lack of ads doesn't really move a needle a bit.