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Vint – A new message broadcast app
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- fiatjaf 12y agoOk, there is an error in this everybody-should-have-their-voice mentality. We should be valuing what people who knows about something has to say about this subject, not what anyone willing to talk has to say about it. How to know who knows? Well...
- tomasien 12y agoThat's not what Vint appears to be to me. There's curation. Maybe there isn't but it appears that there is.
- svillafe 12y agoYes there is curation and 4 rules to be followed if you want to publish a message
- svillafe 12y agoWe think that everyone has the right to speak their minds. Vint is the place to share your opinions or stories on any subject. Before Vint if you were not a massive brand or have no power, there wasn't a method to reach a wide audience.
- hunvreus 12y agoIs there an audience yet on Vint?
- fizwhiz 12y agoI agree that people have the right to speak their minds, but why cap it at 20 "messages" per day? Is this backed up by any psychological research or did the team set it up arbitrarily? I'm thinking if I want to really use the app, I'd like to personally control how many messages or views I'm bombarded with. Perhaps I want to hear something every waking hour of the day (so ~18 messages). But maybe some days I would like much less or much more. Why should Vint control my ingestion of messages?
- svillafe 12y ago20 messages is the sweet spot between to much and to little for users to leave. But the real reason for the limit in the messages is to maximize the audience. In Vint, there are only twenty messages per day. The same messages everyone sees.
- fizwhiz 12y ago"But the real reason for the limit in the messages is to maximize the audience" Can you explain this further? Do you mean to say that if you bumped up the number of messages to 40, you will not be maximizing the audience because there are too many messages? Are you curating these paid messages manually?
- svillafe 12y agoExactly right. If we increase the number of messages per day, less people will read each message. We do curate each message manually. (It's only twenty of them)
- ptr 12y agoThere's already something called Vint. https://www.joinvint.com https://www.joinvint.com Will be confusing.
- ignavaldi 12y agoThat app is no longer working. At least the links in their website don't
- chasing 12y agoAm I to understand that this is like Twitter's Promoted Tweets without any other functionality? Because Promoted Tweets are really the best part of Twitter?
- svillafe 12y agoNo it is not. We don't allow any type of advertisements in Vint. There are 4 rules that you have to follow to publish in Vint: * No offensive content. * No adult content. * No advertisements. * English only (We are currently implementing other languages) Thanks for your feedback.
- narkoleptic 12y ago> No offensive content Fuck that noise.
- dror 12y agoPromoted tweets are paid for https://business.twitter.com/en-gb/products/pricing https://business.twitter.com/en-gb/products/pricing
- peterhajas 12y agoThis looks like it's the same as The List Serve: http://thelistserve.com/ http://thelistserve.com/
- svillafe 12y agoThe difference is that in Vint you have the chance to post your message to a selected date, and you don't have to win the chance to post in a lottery. Here anyone can post.
- gerhardi 12y agoSo how many days will it take for everyone to tell their message, if there are 20 message slots per day?
- ignavaldi 12y agoWhat do you mean?
- danishm 12y agoIf this app does get popular how are you planning on managing it when you are getting hundreds of message requests a day?
- svillafe 12y agoAfter the first 20 post requests for a specific date no more request are accepted. From the app there is a seven day time window where you can choose the date that you want.
- kylec 12y agoThe whole purpose behind Vint is to presumably have thousands of people reading what is posted. Hypothetically, if there are 20,000 Vint users and they all want to post something, it'll take almost 3 years to give everyone their say.
- glenda 12y agoSeems like the copy on your website is a bunch of hot air considering that you only show messages from people that pay to post.
- svillafe 12y agoHi Glenda, What do you mean when you say "the copy on your web site"?
- glenda 12y agoI mean the text you wrote makes it sound like you want all kinds of people around the world to be able to communicate about issues that are important to them. But in reality you are more interested in promoting posts from people who are willing to pay a dollar.
- ignavaldi 12y agoEvery post costs a dollar. There is no promotion to any post, every post is the same.
- varungoel 12y agoI love the idea of having a platform where I can say something and potentially be heard (twitter), but if I have to pay 0.99$ everytime I say something, I want to know how many people are going to see it.. Are you going to post how many daily active users you have on a regular interval?
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- RMarcus 12y agoI'm not terribly interested in reading what people have paid a buck to say. What would be much more interesting is an app that allowed anyone to say anything for free, and then filtered all those posts down to 20 posts for each user. So each user gets a different 20 posts, and (assuming a user posts only once a day) each user's post is seen by 20 people. That'd be an interesting way of solving the "firehose" problem on sites like Twitter. Then, perhaps, you add on Pandora-like "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" features so that the service can pick better posts for you.
- svillafe 12y ago@RMarcus Thanks for your feedback, that's a very good idea, but an entirely different app. Vint tries to maximize the audience of each post by showing everyone the same 20 messages.
- k__ 12y agoThis would solve the "firehose" problem, but it would also make the "filter bubble" problem more worse. 1. People get much crap, because it's hyped by media. 2. People get much crap, because they like it. The first thing leads to dumb opinions to be stuffed into peoples brains and the second leads to a feedback loop, which makes the first effect even stronger.
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- svillafe 12y agoIf you have an iPhone you are in the group of people who can afford to pay a dollar. I'm sorry to hear you think it's shady, would you care to explain why?
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