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adam mashaal@adammash · Founder of Being. East Village, NYC
Update #2: As of February 25, 2016, our API access has been revoked. After gaining nearly 50,000 downloads in just over 7 days, we couldn't be more grateful for the incredible response and support we received in the short period Being was live. We are hard at work on bringing Being back to all of those excited about what it offers (and to get rid of that pes… See more
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adam mashaal@adammash · Founder of Being. East Village, NYC
Oh, and obligatory cat GIF cc: @rrhoover  See more
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Liora@liora_ · Product Manager in Silicon Beach
@adammash @adamokane @mashfeed A little surprised your medium post hasn't gotten more attention! I thought it was very thoughtful. I left a comment but I'll post it here too: Inevitably, celebrities will follow private feeds you don't have access to. Does the app inform users that certain private feeds couldn't be incorporated? You've put a lot of thought… See more
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adam mashaal@adammash · Founder of Being. East Village, NYC
@liora_ @adamokane @mashfeed Hey Liora! Thanks for the kind words about the post. It was a blast to write. We totally respect all privacy settings that exist on Instagram. So if someone is private and you're not friends with them, you'll never see their posts on Being. As I mentioned in the medium post (http://bit.ly/1ToxwvJ), our main goal with Being is t… See more
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Liora@liora_ · Product Manager in Silicon Beach
@adammash @adamokane @mashfeed I'm actually less concerned about you violating privacy (I don't doubt that the Instagram API makes that reasonably difficult) and more: let's say I want to follow TSwift's 66 followers, but 12 of them are private. Do you let me know that I'm not seeing her entire feed? Do you give me the option to request to follow those other… See more
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adam mashaal@adammash · Founder of Being. East Village, NYC
@liora_ @adamokane @mashfeed That's great feedback, and a very interesting idea. Currently, we do not, but it's definitely something we'll consider to help people discover new feeds and to give them a more complete picture of what they're viewing. Thanks!
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Michael Riddering@ridderingand_ · Cofounder, Trendly
@liora_ @adammash @adamokane @mashfeed Agreed...more people should read your Medium post. Really is thought provoking! Oh and props to the onboarding screens in app
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