@nidhi_v_shandilya I'll copy and paste what I sent above re. chicken and egg:
To combat the chicken and the egg: We have a targeted marketing strategy. I’ll share part of it. Please message me personally if you’d like more information/have any advice: we’re centralizing around 5 college campuses and 2 major cities. These users here have early-download relevance due to their close proximity to friends and socially active locations. We’re focusing on these areas (not exclusively, however) until there’s cross-network communication among the locations. At which point we expand outward from this nucleus.
So like Path meets Ello? Props for trying to tackle such a brutal space (social networks). How are you competing with say the 30 minutes it would take me to go on FB to tweak my news feed, change my privacy settings, and check their "Users around me" feature?
@evankimbrell
Well put, and good question.
1. While the big social players offer ways to tweak your post audience, their features have downsides
A. It’s inconvenient to readjust settings (which is why users rarely do it).
B. Your audience settings are not specific to each post. You have to change it each time. As you can see in my examples to Ben (above), post requires a different, very specific audience from your network.
2. Facebook’s size works to its disadvantage
A. They’re not as agile in pivots and micro needs because they’re catering to such a massive user base.
B. As the global archive, their sweet spot is not in making your network smaller and more intimate. You can’t compete with them in certain areas. But in “check-ins” and “locations”, they work at a disadvantage. The day-to-day, on-the fly ‘who’s here’ need is far less utilized than the ‘this is so amazing, who can I stay in touch with and learn about’ need.
Thanks for the hunt Andrew! I am thrilled to present Babble. A more personalized social network.
Babble is for you if:
1. You like sharing online, but not with a massive FB network. 2. Have wondered which friends are nearby - in a city, on campus, or at an event. 3. Want to communicate with your “middle network”, people in-between a text and a Facebook post. 4. Are sick of seeing random people on your FB news feed.
Benefits, you ask?
It’s comfortable – Post whatever, whenever. Your posts only go to the right friends.
It’s the perfect size – Letting you connect with friends you normally wouldn’t.
It’s convenient – Know who’s around you. Not who you missed.
Read more here: http://tech.co/babble-right-onli...
How it works:
1. Write your post, whatever your heart desires ("Is anyone going to be in Fire Island this weekend?").
2. Select who you want the post to go to. "All Friends", "Most Friends", or "Only Good Friends"
3. Choose the geographical distance for your post. Only the relevant audience will see it.
4. Choose how long you want the post to last (each post will eventually pop and disappear).
5. Click send. Enjoy connecting with the right people every time. A comfortable place to communicate, so you can babble freely!
Thanks and enjoy!
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Sounds interesting. Clear explainer vid. Got me interested in checking it out.. clicked the App Store link only to realize it isn't available in my store (and no, sorry, won't switch stores to download an app, bad experiences with that when updates come around - leads to crashes etc..) So -- when are you planning to release beyond the US market?
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Promoting it as the hook up app.... Or drink after hook up app... Yeah sorry can't up vote this too cheesy.
@marcus_davenport I don't get the vibe that it's strictly a hookup app, or even remotely that, since you're only posting to your friends.
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Great app, can't wait till it's available in my country (Brazil) and available for Android. Love the fact that each post can be customized for who and how long it'll be available.
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