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Is Your Product Too Engaging?
- rrhoover 13y agoWhat examples can you think of outside of gaming or dating that face this challenge?
- ljlolel 13y agoturntable.fm
- rrhoover 13y agoYou think so? It doesn't have a content problem (there's infinite music). I posited that Turntable.fm failed for other reasons: http://ryanhoover.me/post/45420658844/what-killed-turntable-fm http://ryanhoover.me/post/45420658844/what-killed-turntable-...
- hsukenooi 13y agoHmm.. products that have a limited number of consumable things. Maybe earlier reddit, when there wasn't many links, you could exhaust everything on there.
- wesleyac 13y agocoughhackernewscough Not exactly the same, the there's a reason that noprocrast is there.
- guynamedloren 13y agoWow, I've seen noprocrast dozens of times but never thought to use it. Now that I've looked into it, it's actually a fantastic model (maxvisit and minaway). Not hard to comprehend, but if anybody's curious: http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#07nov07 http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#07nov07 I wonder if there are any chrome extensions that share a similar model.. I use 'stayfocusd' right now, but it's nowhere near as effective.
- namenotrequired 13y agoI use this - it's not a chrome extension, but an OS X application that blocks sites for all browsers: http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/ http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/
- guynamedloren 13y agoOh this is fantastic. Almost exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks!
- wesleyac 13y agoI just started using noprocrast, and it's awesome. If you haven't used it, start!
- alexcaps 13y agoThat's why we limited introductions to one per day on At The Pool and quickly scaled to 100+ countries... http://atthepool.com http://atthepool.com
- jonathanjaeger 13y agoInteresting that this is "Tinder for startup professionals" because the co-founder of Tinder said they're interested in applying their idea to professionals in the future (not just dating). The co-founder of treatings.co has been blogging on PandoDaily every week about doing the same idea. I guess a bunch of people are going after this space, and I wouldn't be surprised if LinkedIn has a more noticeable feature like this in the future.
- AznHisoka 13y agoThe problem isn't that your product is too engaging. The problem is it's not good enough for your users. In your example, you don't have enough users in your app to make it more useful. The solution isn't to make it less engaging - it's to add more users. To make it more useful.
- rrhoover 13y agoNot quite. The biggest issue is connecting too many people at once. Assuming the goal is to meet people in person for coffee (and one could argue that meeting via email is just as or more valuable), making numerous connections floods the user with "commitments" to meet. Most people are too busy to meet several people (e.g. 5) within a 1-2 week time frame. The product needs to address this flood.
- elacey 13y agothe double buy-in approach is interesting, and being applied to a lot of different use cases - hr/employment, by Angel list, hooking up, via Bang With Friends (now called Down) and of course Tinder, and also dating via OkCupid locals... it's especially effective if the subject of connection is not something you wish to socially broadcast, due to stigma or fear of rejection (jobs/dates/hooking-up/etc.). There's a lot of untapped use cases where applying double buy-in would be effective, like finding a roommate. Or, perhaps situationally it could be effective and reduce the fear of rejection or awkwardness associated with striking up a conversation at a bar or at a convention, etc.