dvel

@msch me and @fredstrasser started troutloud http://www.troutloud.com/ and http://www.tagvertising.com with the aim to reward users of Social Media for tagging brands on pictures, meaning native advertising in exchange of rewards. In addition to that I'm a speaker and Social Media marketer.

@msch i started freelancing as a web & app dev (2010). Last year (Feb 2014) I founded www.intracked.com with a college during college. It's an app & web portal for driving schools and students, to track their required kilometers (1000-3000) for the driving license. I sold the company and started dvel end of Feb 2015.

@andreasklinger yes we have an FB Messenger Integration

@andreasklinger great question because it is part of our growth concept! In the current app we have 2 Messenger integrations. - sharing the link (to webvoting) to get the OG:Object via metatags (first row in the sharing sheet) - new native messenger integration, but this does not work if the recipient opens the Messenger in a browser, because Facebook only shows the shared image w/o a link, so its useless (second row in the sharing sheet) We are working on a sharing improvement.

@mahringer_a good point, currently 5 votes within the first 30 seconds. To have a magical experience we're aiming for 5 qualified (friends) votes within 5 seconds.

@oliverlukesch Brands have questions too and seeking for ways to engage their audience. Using dvel brands can involve their community in product decisions and make their followers part of the brands future. Our current focus is on giving users the best experience with dvel and grow a community of people who help each other making better decisions. We're convident to find a way to monetize without annoying our users, but we're not on focusing on this at all right now.

@luca I would say so far most dvels fall into these 3 categories: what to wear ? : http://www.letsdvel.com/dvels/7e... what to eat ? : http://www.letsdvel.com/dvels/6a... what to buy ? : http://www.letsdvel.com/dvels/58... It's impossible to anticipate which additional formats/usecases we will see. Even just looking at the 5k dvels so far it looks like there will be countless and very diverse usecases. I also see a strong usecase in logo or other visual a/b testing in real-time. One thing I find fascinating is seeing users prompt others for cheering for them for making the right decision (not smoking, getting up, studying, going for a run) Can't wait to see what dvels you come up with.

@__tosh We are hosting our servers on Microsoft Azure (we are BizSpark Plus member) and Amazon AWS (we are AWS Activate member). Our API is written in NodeJS. We have a short-term cache in Redis and a long-term cache in MongoDB replica. We use MySQL to store all of our main data. Beside the core we use PHP for some small tasks like generating/processing images (e.g. Facebook share image). We are currently working on more loadbalancing stuff for our core servers. If you have further questions follow me on twitter @phips28

@__tosh indeed, Lara, one of our early community members from France started to ask for motivation. One example: "stay at home or go for a run #whattodo ?" Most people voted for "go for a run" which motivated Lara to go for a run. More and more people follow her and I think that's what drives a community. Early adopters, who are super engaged and understand the platform better. I'm sure Lara will grow a huge follower base when dvel is growing.