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Clinkle Finally Launches to Let You Pay Friends and Earn “Treats”
- danilocampos 12y agoPlease note actual, accurate headline is "Mobile Wallet Laughingstock Clinkle Finally Launches To Let You Pay Friends And Earn 'Treats'"
- korzun 12y agoWhat a start-up horror story. > At least Clinkle employs 128-bit AES encryption This is ground breaking.
- minimaxir 12y agoYou should take a look at Clinkle's Team page: https://www.clinkle.com/team https://www.clinkle.com/team All of the Clinkle team members have quirky and random lol xD photos on mouseover. Except the CFO. He means business.
- minikites 12y agoAs relevant as ever: https://twitter.com/mrgan/status/384780273721696256 https://twitter.com/mrgan/status/384780273721696256 @mrgan —"I'd like to, uh… "pay with clinkle." —"Excuse me?" —"Uh, pay with… clinkle?" —"Do you need the key to the restroom?" —"Pay… with… clinkle"
- Cookingboy 12y agoOmg, nobody proofread that article? Since when did TechCrunch become this horrible at actual...English? Look at these: "What Clinkle doesn’t do is allow instant peer-to-merchant payments via high frequency sounds without a like it was hoping." "Clinkle was shooting for the kind of “Innovation” with a capital I that we laud in Silicon Valley." "The app is certainly slick, with tons of delightful little animation flourishes." Did their writers go full retard?
- 21echoes 12y agoHey, Clinkle engineer here. We know Josh personally from our time together at Stanford. He really dislikes the company, and hopefully it was quite clear that the article was biased, rushed, and overall pretty unprofessional.
- CaveTech 12y agoI'm not exactly sure that you're unbiased in this discussion either. While the article may have been rushed, it didn't really seem unprofessional.
- devindotcom 12y agoWellll the headline is does describe them as a "laughingstock"
- smoyer 12y agoSome laughingstocks really are laughingstocks ... My only recollection of Clinkle before this article was that the name might not be taken seriously (perhaps during a discussion here on HN). Who declared them to be a laughingstock? Probably not those who invested - and I'm not going to second guess the VC talent that put up their money.
- smoyer 12y agoWould you care to explain why I'd want to use your application/service? If his article is half right and you combine the gaps and flaws with your name (which makes me think of the urinal), I think his conclusion is correct. Note that I don't know your team or anything about your product, but you will be fighting public perception and the media. I would also say that the vapor-ware label is a bit unfair - I spent enough time in hardware businesses to know that some things take time.
- cmalpeli 12y agoCurious what the author of that article has ever built or created. My guess is nothing. From the looks of his twitter profile, I think that is pretty much confirmed: https://twitter.com/joshconstine https://twitter.com/joshconstine So easy for those in the pseudo-journalistic world TC and much of the Tech press live in to knock down, destroy and critique. Meanwhile, more talented folks keep building and creating....
- at-fates-hands 12y agoUnfortunately, this company will remain an SV punch line for a long, long time to come.
- perryh2 12y agoWhy should I use this instead of my rewards credit card?
- minimaxir 12y agoBecause it's social. It's not a particularly compelling argument in 2014.
- Ian999 12y agoIn general, I like to give new technologies/apps a chance. I have spent some time looking at the payment space and the concept of "treats" is at least interesting. I think the name "treats" undermines what it does. If you swipe their debit card seven times you get one of these "treats". If this caught on, the network effect may arise where people start paying for friends coffees/small gifts. The question is, is the value of rewards that are giftable > credit card's value. Not sure that it is but I'm also not sure that it is not. The comments have been brutal but I wouldn't completely dismiss the concept just yet.