Hive

Yik Yak's new secret app, a social network for your campus

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Yik Yak's new secret app, a social network for your campus

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After downloading the app you have to pick a specific school, only two options as of now are Furman University and "Hive University" which i'm assuming is not a real school?😂 After deciding which school you have to sign up with your school email.

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9yr ago

@troy_ruediger buggy lol

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9yr ago

Google Play Music

@troy_ruediger as a graduate of hive university i find your comments extremely upsetting

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9yr ago

Slackstarters

@caseynewton haha no joke?

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9yr ago

Product Hunt

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The Verge's @caseynewton just broke the news about Yik Yak's new app, Hive, published under the pseudonym, Richard Guy (sounds familiar to @benrbn and the Houseparty's strategy 😛). Unlike anonymous-based Yik Yak (which seems to have been struggling lately), Hive is closer to a GroupMe competitor (which is still widely used by college students).

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9yr ago

Google Play Music

@rrhoover if i ever had to publish an app under a pseudonym i would also use this name, but probably shorten it, because who wouldn't want to download an app by dick guy

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9yr ago

Todoist

@caseynewton I was betting on Rich Guy. Good joke though, good joke

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9yr ago

Google Play Music

@hfauq damn, that joke was sitting right there and i totally missed it. good job hugo

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9yr ago

How Many People Have Voted?

@caseynewton @rrhoover ^^This comment is literally one of the best things you've written yet in 2017 and we are all better off for it.

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9yr ago

I'm curious to see if there are any key differentiators compared to GroupMe. From the screenshots, it looks to be nothing more than a clone concept. Did they not get the memo to build products 10x better?

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9yr ago

Jason and Tyler 100mph Podcast - Episode 1

they're clearly just beginning. Consumer apps rarely start off way better. It takes a ton of customer development and lots of iterating to figure out what people truly value in your product. It's also quite an assumption that groupme even matters to them. Who knows what groupme users think about needing other messaging apps, or how they perceive groupme in their life?

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9yr ago

@jasonhitchcock If GroupMe doesn't matter to them, then they would be blindly be developing an app without doing their due diligence in market research as GroupMe is their direct competition. I concur with the iteration process, but I'd also expect an experienced product team would test their key differentiator assumptions in their MVP.

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9yr ago

Super interesting to see YikYak back in action. After some rather unsavory news coverage it's good to see them reaching back into the game.

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9yr ago

So my school (well my interns' school) isn't listed. So I tap the waitlist button. It says to enter my email, which I do. "We will send you an email when your school becomes available".....how?! I never told you what school I was hoping would be listed!

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9yr ago

@itsthisjustin it id's your school domain (me@SCHOOL.edu)

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9yr ago

@jesusantvargas @school Ha that would make sense but they didn't do any .edu email validation or even ask specifically for my school email.

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9yr ago

Raycast

Sounds an awful lot like @thevcdj's CoffeeCram.

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9yr ago

Hypercontext

Am I the only one who doesn't like the word "channels" for chat rooms? Like I get it, it's a thing now... But is it the right word for what we want to accomplish?

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9yr ago

Jason and Tyler 100mph Podcast - Episode 1

@i_am_brennan you are probably not the only one, but does it really matter?

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9yr ago

Hypercontext

@jasonhitchcock Yes and no... and really no. But why teach people new terminology if you can focus their energy to learning other things? That's all... Like if they have to map the word "channel" to "team" or "friend group" or to, in this case, "Courses" then why not just help them and label it the way you want them to use it. They'll spend less energy figuring out why to use it and more energy figuring the rest of it out.

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9yr ago

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