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Homer

More easily discover apps via your friends

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Elliot Babchick
@ebabchick · HVF Labs
Hey all, one of the creators of Homer here. Thanks for all the feedback.

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Adam Besvinick
@besvinick · VC at Anchorage Capital
Love the idea and seems like they're going about it the right way. Just wish that the app recognition were a little better and that I could go in a make edits to things that are wrong or things I want to hide.
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
You'd think I'd be all over this but over the years I've become jaded by social app discovery apps. 3-4 years ago we were exploring this space at PlayHaven. I looked at Chomp, AppsFire, and a ton of other similar "better App Stores" and none of them were really compelling. Consumers don't _really_ have a problem finding new apps, imho. It's not something… See more
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Adding your apps with a simple screenshot is pretty slick although I had to fix a few mismatches and my safari shortcut to Product Hunt couldn't be listed (can't wait until I replace it with a native app.... we're close!). Here's my homescreen: It's kind of fun to browse through friends' phone but I'm skeptical people will continually return to the app t… See more
Ouriel Ohayon
@ourielohayon · appsfire, CEO/ isai (VC) co-founder
we created this concept 4 years ago with Appsfire.com at the time there was 20 000 apps in the app store (we re not in that space any more) . Homer is very well implemented and has some very nice ideas. We learned over time that people actually don t care to know which apps their friends like but what their friends actually use AND like. And even though we f… See more
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Elliot Babchick
@ebabchick · HVF Labs
Hey all, one of the creators of Homer here. Thanks for all the feedback.