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"Apps and services like Cluster, Albumatic, Keepsy, Swirl, Flock, Kicksend, Kaptur, and dozens of others are destined for the dustbin of Internet history." I s
by chasing 13y ago
"Apps and services like Cluster, Albumatic, Keepsy, Swirl, Flock, Kicksend, Kaptur, and dozens of others are destined for the dustbin of Internet history."
I suspect most of these were headed there anyway, no offense to anyone working on them.
- ngoel36 13y agoHunter Walk's blogpost on why this might not be the case: http://hunterwalk.com/2013/08/26/how-facebooks-shared-photo-albums-impacts-other-startups-hint-doesnt/ http://hunterwalk.com/2013/08/26/how-facebooks-shared-photo-...
- weland 13y agoAs someone who isn't doing web programming, this "app culture" is grinding my gears. I respect a fellow coder's work. I'm sure a lot of hard work went into all those applications listed there (of which, frankly, I haven't heard, because if I want to share something with my friends I upload it on my server and be done with it), but people ought to be more aware of their own smallness. You don't base your enterprise on making (and hosting, and maintaining!) the nth fucking website that essentially offers something that should simply be a feature of a social network. Especially if it's something like a shared album. Who the hell invests money into a business whose end product is basically one week's work away for the company which already provides services to 99.99% percent of the people need that product? Wishing for a niche to be there doesn't magically make it poof into existence.
- mrtksn 13y agothough it is easy to create such a service, sometimes big companies just don't mess too much with things that are working just well and there is a room for niche products. still, it is very risky to offer a products only to someone else's users - you are out at the moment that the big company decides to implement the feature you are offering. technically, yahoo,google and microsoft(icq,myspace,friendter too) had all the resources to create most of the now popular online services like insagram, facebook, tumblr but they did not and now are buying these or compete with them fruitlessly. couldn't facebook create an app with filters? yes, but they bought instagram because of the userbase. so I agree with you that these are bad investments but only when the projects don't have something that could not be recreated with few engineers.
- vm 13y agoInstagram began as a photosharing app when Facebook already dominated photosharing.
- coldtea 13y agoDon't let the door hit them on their way out. Even their names lack originality...