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Yik Yak's new secret app, a social network for your campus
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Hive - Yik Yak's new secret app, a social network for your campus

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The Verge's just about Yik Yak's new app, Hive, published under the pseudonym, Richard Guy (sounds familiar to and the 's strategy 😛). Unlike anonymous-based Yik Yak (which seems to have been struggling lately), Hive is closer to a GroupMe competitor (which is still widely used by college students).
if i ever had to publish an app under a pseudonym i would also use this name, but probably shorten it, because who wouldn't want to download an app by dick guy
I was betting on Rich Guy. Good joke though, good joke
damn, that joke was sitting right there and i totally missed it. good job hugo
^^This comment is literally one of the best things you've written yet in 2017 and we are all better off for it.
After downloading the app you have to pick a specific school, only two options as of now are Furman University and "Hive University" which i'm assuming is not a real school?😂 After deciding which school you have to sign up with your school email.
buggy lol
as a graduate of hive university i find your comments extremely upsetting
haha no joke?
So it's a mobile first TheFacebook.com
Looks very similar to Huckle ()
I wish the remaining team well in their new adventure! Looks like Slack for college 😍
Whats the answer to #3, lol
I'm curious to see if there are any key differentiators compared to GroupMe. From the screenshots, it looks to be nothing more than a clone concept. Did they not get the memo to build products 10x better?
they're clearly just beginning. Consumer apps rarely start off way better. It takes a ton of customer development and lots of iterating to figure out what people truly value in your product. It's also quite an assumption that groupme even matters to them. Who knows what groupme users think about needing other messaging apps, or how they perceive groupme in their life?
If GroupMe doesn't matter to them, then they would be blindly be developing an app without doing their due diligence in market research as GroupMe is their direct competition. I concur with the iteration process, but I'd also expect an experienced product team would test their key differentiator assumptions in their MVP.
Tough road ahead... Can they capture the magic twice? My money is on no.
Super interesting to see YikYak back in action. After some rather unsavory news coverage it's good to see them reaching back into the game.
Interesting starting market of Furman University, any reason why it started there?
Founders are from there, I believe.
Sounds an awful lot like 's .
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