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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
I've been using Roll for the past few weeks and love the branding and simplicity. @pdavison - Roll is MUCH different from your location-based app, Highlight, which exploded in popularity a few years ago. Where did the idea for Roll come from and why didn't Highlight work out? See more
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Paul Davison@pdavison · Founder/CEO, Highlight
@rrhoover Thanks! Actually, Roll came out of some work we were doing on Highlight 3.0! With Highlight, our goal has always been to help you learn about the people around you. With Highlight 1.0, our focus was on surfacing mutual friends and interests. With 2.0, we added new bits of context about what the people around you were doing - like whether they wer… See more
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Andy Rosenberg@andythegiant · Head of Marketing, Roostr
@rrhoover @pdavison Highlight was ahead of its time. Battery life could not keep up with the app, and this was pre-Tinder where people were not quite conditioned yet to feel comfortable with geo-location sharing. Sonar was another great app like this that would have had more success if it launched today. I actually think Highlight set the stage for apps li… See more
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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@pdavison @andythegiant I agree, it was a little ahead of its time but do you think now (or in the near future) people will be comfortable and want to meet others nearby serendipitously? cc'ing @xsvengoechea from Sonar and @badeen from Tinder.
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Andy Rosenberg@andythegiant · Head of Marketing, Roostr
@pdavison @xsvengoechea @badeen @rrhoover For sure. I think a spring of apps will begin to pop up connecting people with shared mutual hobbies, interests, tastes. I bet @elan_miller also would like to get in on this convo.
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Ximena Vengoechea@xsvengoechea · product + ux @LinkedIn
@pdavison @badeen @rrhoover @elan_miller @andythegiant I still love the idea of friend serendipity but I think what was missing from our first round of solomoapps was action IRL - i.e., it's great to find others who share similar interests with you, but what do you actually do with that knowledge? Dating and networking are two very actionable next steps whe… See more
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Andy Rosenberg@andythegiant · Head of Marketing, Roostr
@pdavison @badeen @rrhoover @elan_miller @xsvengoechea agreed 100%
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Jonathan Badeen@badeen · Co-founder & CS(trategy)O, Tinder
@xsvengoechea you're right. The area in-between the two is a bit difficult to pin down.
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