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Comments on “Nine by #2015bestnine”
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Yusuke Matsumura@spyuchan · Entrepreneur, Growth marketing engineer
Thanks @lylemckeany for hunting this! Let me share the story of the development of Nine. I was in San Francisco in 2014 for three months to attend Tradecraft (I met Lyle there!). During my stay, I was surprised to see that many people were “SWIPING FACES” on apps. At the time, this was somewhat of a rare thing to see in Japan. I quickly downloaded as many a… See more
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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@spyuchan @mai_d_mai congratulations with the launch! Loved the site when it was launched :) You've taken a completely new angle it seems with a dating app? Why dating? There is already so many other dating apps out there that have slight variations. Why do you think people will use this concept for dating? I'm not sure it's totally relevant. What you co… See more
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Stewart Rogers@therealsjr · Journalist/Analyst/Speaker - VentureBeat
@spyuchan @lylemckeany @mai_d_mai This looks like it *could* be a fun way for 'grammers that like each other's work in order to automatically follow each other's accounts, but the dating angle means I won't be downloading it. Shame really. Could have been a cool "discovery" app with a nice auto-follow feature when a match is found, but the fact that you push… See more
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Yusuke Matsumura@spyuchan · Entrepreneur, Growth marketing engineer
@bentossell @mai_d_mai Thanks!! Why? Because I am dedicating my life to dating app :) You are right. There is already tons of it. But there is nothing satisfies us. This 3x3 picture format helps us get a glimpse of people's personalities. I think this gives us a different UX :)
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Yusuke Matsumura@spyuchan · Entrepreneur, Growth marketing engineer
@therealsjr Thanks for the insights! We considered that way - auto-follow. But you know the follow-followed relationship on Instagram is a weak-tie, not suitable to communicate with new people. If we say "this is dating", people are comfortable starting chatting with new people. This is our aspect :)
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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@spyuchan @mai_d_mai understood, but apps like Tinder already let you add your instagram profile. Also you choose which photos to show on your dating profile, whether you do that show your personality, the option is already there. In my opinion it just seems an odd angle to take this project.
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William Bentley@williamb3ntley · Libra. Personality of the 😈 May bite.
@bentossell 💪🏿
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