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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
I stumbled across this app over the weekend. The video AMA's are surprisingly fun to create thanks to the video filters that reduce self-consciousness when filming yourself.
It borrows elements from Ask.fm, giving users the ability to ask people questions anonymously.
I briefly tried digging up more info about the founders and it appears this is a rebrand… See more
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Shaan Puri
@shaanvp · ceo, Monkey Inferno
My thoughts in a nutshell -
1. Interesting concept
2. The ability to ask annonymously is something I fundamentally disagree with as a product choice (it is a juicy initial hook, but then degrades quality over time)
3. Video browsability is always an issue - not sure if the payoff is worth losing the browsibility in this use case. We have discussed running… See more
Kevin Li
@liveink · #NewStuff
@ShaanVP is anonymous something that bad tho? if moderated correctly it's a really interesting community like whisper
Shaan Puri
@shaanvp · ceo, Monkey Inferno
@liveink not necessarily a bad thing, just depends on your objectives. It's a very easy lifeline to use for your product, but I believe it has an inherent set of problems that I've never seen solved gracefully.
ps - there's a major difference between anonymous SHARING (whisper) of content and anonymous ASKING (eg. Formspring, Ask.fm etc..) question to oth… See more