First time I’ve ever seen a truly networked camera. There may have been some feeling of privacy and strangers that weren’t right and we weren’t ready for, but I still want this today – to take a shared album with friends when we are all together.
We went thru a few iterations... Shared camera for the group that was present, and eventually learn via geo and eventually other sensors who you were spending time with, taking photos with and it would continue to album share, thus building a new social graph. We also wanted to "teleport" a user and make them feel like they were at an event with their friends on the other side of the country. A friend's birthday party as like the one Josh mentioned in his post. That then inspired us to do bigger live events. We did boneroo and sweet life concert and a few college rallies, games. Which I am reminded of now with snapchat stories. We were trying to solve the cold start problem when we did a few events like this.
But the product wasn't ready when we launched. That and a long list of other things is why we failed.
@peterpham "But the product wasn't ready when we launched..." Can you elaborate on this? This seems to go against the popular belief (and one I tend to subscribe to) that smaller is always better, ESPECIALLY when first launching.
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