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Antoine Martin@an21m · CEO, Zenly
Thanks @gabriel__lewis for hunting us! We are super happy to be on PH today! Hi guys! Co-founders of Zenly here, hoping to catch some quality feedback on what we are doing. We’ve been on a mission to popularize constant location sharing for the past 5 years. Zenly is now the closest thing to a social network built on a map, with your friends and family. … See more
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Dan Rosenshain@danr_4 · I try to be honest
@an21m "On average people receive 6-8 phone calls & texts about their location per day" Source? I like the sound of how you grew until launch. It feels you were able to slowly capture value through UX iteration rather than feature-wise since it seems there aren't many features. Was this a pivot? are you bootstrapped? any investments? Now for the obv… See more
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Hugo Fauquenoi@hfauq · user success @twistappteam @todoist 🚀
@an21m @gabriel__lewis @romaindillet @techcrunch Quite impressed by the playful UX and the low battery consumption, it's rock solid! Q: How do you guys see competition with Facebook Messenger? Their strength: they own the network (all my friends are using it, it's easy to share my location with them). I guess it's the end of "I'll be there in 5 minutes!"… See more
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Antoine Martin@an21m · CEO, Zenly
Thanks @danr_4 ! Bootstrapped, Launch, Seed, Pivot. Bootstrap again. We ate pasta for years :) All our cash was going into engineering, buying test devices, and design. We have a few plans to monetize but it's too early to focus on them yet. All our efforts go into growth & product, shooting for 1M DAUs as fast as we can.
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Antoine Martin@an21m · CEO, Zenly
Great question @hfauq ! A few years ago Google couldn't push the privacy questions around your online identity & photo sharing because they had a brand asset to protect. Facebook took the social space. We think it will be a pure player, cross-os, and entirely focused on the subject that will take the location sharing vertical. Just like Instagram &am… See more
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Hugo Fauquenoi@hfauq · user success @twistappteam @todoist 🚀
@an21m Focus always wins! I'm confident you'll nail this. People look really engaged with the app! Cheers!
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Antoine Martin@an21m · CEO, Zenly
@hfauq thanks! Doing our best!
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Dan Rosenshain@danr_4 · I try to be honest
@an21m cool. Well, good luck, I hope there's a sustainable business there.
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Hayden Williams@howillia · VC @BBGVentures
@an21m awesome app, well deserved feature by Apple! One thing I noticed is that if a friend manually kills their Zenly app (on iOS), I can see still see their location. How does this work? I thought Apple doesn't allow an iPhone to send location data when an app has been manually killed. Is this a new feature on iOS? Keep it up!
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