Pretty immature to frame what they've built as "Screw Yo," especially given it looks like it was three non-technical folks that outsourced development. Be positive and humble, please.
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@joshm We don't outsource our development. It's 100% home made. Come visit us and we will commit & push together fixes on GitHub ;) (We are exactly 4 devs in our team: https://github.com/EthanSbbn/dro...)
@joshm i think it's better than launching modestly and having people label it as "oh it's just another yo clone". If people would know they're a clone, might as well push it further to get more attention :)
@joshm I thought it was a catchy title, and playfully riffing on a product's ideology rather than the product itself (hence, "text matters" as the proceeding sentence). Also, absolutely nothing wrong with non-technical folks.
I'm particularly fond of the first channel featured in their discover section. :)
Drop is obviously has some Yo inspiration but this is another example of a notification-driven app. The value and interaction occurs on the lockscreen and it doesn't take an open derive value. This is great because the friction to "use" the app is substantially decreased; however, it has several limitations. How do app creators measure success when they have 0 data on whether users are even seeing these notifications let alone finding value from them? cc @orarbel
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@rrhoover Did you ever try Broadcast by the makers of App.net? It seems to be a really similar idea to this and other products that are popping up now. It was released late 2013, but didn't seem to gain a lot of traction.
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@rrhoover You perfectly figured it out !
As for the subscribers feedback we are working on a stats module where creators will be able to track notifications link opening for example.
I love your zero state page when I haven't subscribed to any channel. However, I can't seem to find the discover button as soon as you subscribe to one channel and the only way I can add a channel is the + button. But the + button has no auto-complete. Bug or feature?
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@nikunj Yes we are looking forward to make the discover button more present in the next app update. You can still access it with a tap on "No inspiration?" button when you try to add a new channel.
Took me a while to understand that the "No Inspiration?" button takes me to the Discover page, but I finally figured it out. Excited to see some notifications roll in.
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