Simon Dawlat

Drop - Subscribe to channels & get push notification updates

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Josh Miller
Pretty immature to frame what they've built as "Screw Yo," especially given it looks like it was three non-technical folks that outsourced development. Be positive and humble, please.
Ethan Sebban
@joshm We don't outsource our development. It's 100% home made. Come visit us and we will commit & push together fixes on GitHub ;) (We are exactly 4 devs in our team: https://github.com/EthanSbbn/dro...)
Ross Rojek
@joshm That was my thought too. Fine to use another product as a reference "Yo for text alerts" but not "Screw Yo". Personal preference maybe.
ethan
@joshm i think it's better than launching modestly and having people label it as "oh it's just another yo clone". If people would know they're a clone, might as well push it further to get more attention :)
Allan Zhang
@joshm I thought it was a catchy title, and playfully riffing on a product's ideology rather than the product itself (hence, "text matters" as the proceeding sentence). Also, absolutely nothing wrong with non-technical folks.
Ryan Hoover
I'm particularly fond of the first channel featured in their discover section. :) Drop is obviously has some Yo inspiration but this is another example of a notification-driven app. The value and interaction occurs on the lockscreen and it doesn't take an open derive value. This is great because the friction to "use" the app is substantially decreased; however, it has several limitations. How do app creators measure success when they have 0 data on whether users are even seeing these notifications let alone finding value from them? cc @orarbel
Jon Catchpowle
@rrhoover Did you ever try Broadcast by the makers of App.net? It seems to be a really similar idea to this and other products that are popping up now. It was released late 2013, but didn't seem to gain a lot of traction.
Ethan Sebban
@rrhoover You perfectly figured it out ! As for the subscribers feedback we are working on a stats module where creators will be able to track notifications link opening for example.
Maxime VALETTE
@rrhoover Sadly, they now spam Twitter with fake accounts hoping to have some "traction". Not pretty.
tom meagher
Let's get this to 100 upvotes so I can get a drop notification!
Ria Blagburn
tom meagher
@riaface I received a Yo * ProductHunted about Drop...awkward?
tom meagher
Interesting that Drop opens up the * notifications in safari, while Yo opens them up in the in-app browser.
Ethan Sebban
@thomasmeagher Yes we don't want to retain the user in an app jail. Safari is great for browsing web and Drop is great at delivering notifications!
tom meagher
@ethansbbn Agree!
Lee Simpson
Love this. That is all.
Alexander Horré
@itsleesimpson Yeah, it's pretty solid. I remember this product from before, and forgot about it. Shot back up to the top.
David Senior
Doesn't work for me - initialization error - can send a screenshot if that helps...
Ethan Sebban
@djsenior13 Try to restart the app, and walk through the tutorial again. Keep me posted!
David Senior
@ethansbbn yep, tried that a few times - same is happening to my co-founder Michael.
Ethan Sebban
@djsenior13 Ok, I will investigate right away!
Ethan Sebban
@djsenior13 Can you send me an email through the contact section in-app? It will help me to find you in the database. Thanks.
David Senior
@ethansbbn nope, as I can't get in in the first place to do that.. sorry
Ethan Sebban
Thanks for the rocket fast feature @virtualgoodz ! Feel free to ask any question on Drop, contribute to make it better or simply report a bug !
Jim Carter III
Nicely done! I run ops for a news site, would love to setup trending alerts and see what it takes to be featured.
Ethan Sebban
@noinput Just let us know when you've connected your channel!
Simon Dawlat
The founders have reached out to me a few weeks ago when they launched they are @CharloGanem and @ZeitounRaphael
Jordan Finnigan
Nice implementation, though I prefer pushover.net (by @jcs) for this type of functionality, especially when you add the IFTTT channel.
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