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Note: I'm a co-founder of Everyme, but no longer with the company. I'm not even sure where to start here, because your comment deviates wildly from the actual

Note: I'm a co-founder of Everyme, but no longer with the company. I'm not even sure where to start here, because your comment deviates wildly from the actual point of the post. It borders on trollish. "Are you sure the world needs a social network for families?" Actually, yes. After seeing behavior from hundreds of thousands of Everyme users, and talking to tons of families the evidence seems to indicate that the world does need it. Did I mention that 30,000 people signed up to be notified when a "private social network for your family" launches? I'm not sure how much more confident we could have been in the concept. We used all of the available data to make the right call. "Well I don't. And neither do the girls on Instagram that have thousands of followers." You're entitled to your own opinion, but I am certain you don't speak for all of these people. "WatsApp had the group messaging feature like forever and I've only seen anyone ever use it once" Anecdotal evidence, at best. WhatsApp has hundreds of millions of users, they keep the feature around because people are using it. "Group messaging never seemed to be a popular product category, and not one of the top things to do on Facebook (unlike photo sharing) so it seems like the market doesn't need a standalone app for that." Mark Zuckerberg recently said: "The big stuff that we’re seeing now is sharing with smaller groups". When a founder who has data from 1 billion people says that, you know it's true.

akrymski 13y ago
Oliver, to me the post reads as "we've launched with lots of PR but failed to get the traction we were hoping for, so don't bother with PR". It borders on blaming the press for lack of market fit. I'm not saying the world doesn't need a social network for families or a social network for pets or whatever. I'm just saying I wouldn't use one, and the people I know wouldn't use one, but I'm sure you've done your research and there very well may be people that will. I sincerely wish you best of luck with it. But if I were you I'd be listening to negative feedback just as much as to positive feedback. Frankly I'm just trying to help. I think EveryMe is a really nicely done app, and I love the fact that you had the balls to do a big launch and get everyone hyped up about the product. Launches are supposed to be big bets with high risk and potentially high reward. I wouldn't want that to disappear. Just because a product didn't resonate with consumers as much as you hoped it would, it doesn't mean the idea of a big launch is bad. I wouldn't want Apple to just release products without "launching" them. Facebook is a counter example, but I think they would have succeeded if they had a big launch as well, their product just didn't need it. Personally I prefer the idea of EveryMe over Origami, so a bit sad to see you change direction because the launch didn't go as planned. I think there are a lot of iterative things you could still try with EveryMe (eg automatic location based groups). Will be interesting to see what you can do in Origami that you can't already do in EveryMe.

akrymski 13y ago

Oliver, to me the post reads as "we've launched with lots of PR but failed to get the traction we were hoping for, so don't bother with PR". It borders on blaming the press for lack of market fit. I'm not saying the world doesn't need a social network for families or a social network for pets or whatever. I'm just saying I wouldn't use one, and the people I know wouldn't use one, but I'm sure you've done your research and there very well may be people that will. I sincerely wish you best of luck with it. But if I were you I'd be listening to negative feedback just as much as to positive feedback. Frankly I'm just trying to help. I think EveryMe is a really nicely done app, and I love the fact that you had the balls to do a big launch and get everyone hyped up about the product. Launches are supposed to be big bets with high risk and potentially high reward. I wouldn't want that to disappear. Just because a product didn't resonate with consumers as much as you hoped it would, it doesn't mean the idea of a big launch is bad. I wouldn't want Apple to just release products without "launching" them. Facebook is a counter example, but I think they would have succeeded if they had a big launch as well, their product just didn't need it. Personally I prefer the idea of EveryMe over Origami, so a bit sad to see you change direction because the launch didn't go as planned. I think there are a lot of iterative things you could still try with EveryMe (eg automatic location based groups). Will be interesting to see what you can do in Origami that you can't already do in EveryMe.