FOLD

What wacky things would you do if the price was just right?

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What wacky things would you do if the price was just right?

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Hey everyone! Cat here, 1 of the 4 creators of Fold. So excited to get our app out to everyone who loves a card and party game. Fold is the card game for iOS that allows you to find out what wacky things you and your friends would do if the price was just right. For the record, I (and we) *thoroughly* enjoy figuring out what things friends, family and others would do for a certain amount of money. I found it’s not only an ice breaker, but always strikes up a solid back and forth, and provides a good laugh (based on what price they are willing to fold at on certain tasks). Not to mention, a good way to determine if you should go on a second date with the person who is willing to twerk in front of your family for $500. *check please* So we said, how do we allow others to do the same? How do we make this fun to simply send to friends, family, partners, etc. and also twisted enough play together at a party or get together? And we’ve come up with what you see here! As of right now, you can: ⁃Connect via Twitter or Facebook ⁃Submit your own questions to be added for everyone ⁃See what your friends folded for ⁃Share each card you’ve answered Please let us know what you think of the app, what features you’d be interested in, and any questions you may have. If you’re on Android, let us know if you’d like to see this come to the Play Store! You can read more about the background and building Fold here. One thing before I wrap this up: For $3000, would you eat the hottest pepper in the world (The Carolina Reaper)?

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10yr ago

Stark

Maker

@agisilaostsaras Thanks so much, Agis! It’s been a really fun product to work on. Especially when our Slack chats end up asking each other if we’d do x for $?

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10yr ago

Stark

Maker

@bentossell Hey Ben! Thanks so much! I’m glad you're enjoying it. Would you eat the slug for $5k? I think it’s been equally as weird to come up with the questions and to see what others would do for money. I like to think I’m street smart and can hold my own, but if you put me in a room with spiders, I’m going to lose it. So to see some people easily agree to touch them for a sub-acceptable amount of money, I’m like 🤔 "Are you out of your damn mind?" haha We decided to *start* with the app angle for a few reasons: - We were interested in using React Native to quickly scale from iOS to Android if the request was there - We wanted it to feel as fluid as possible when you’re on your mobile device with your friends, at a party, sleepover, etc. We didn’t want you to need to worry about logging in on your mobile browser, if you don’t have a connection, etc. We said let's remove the friction. Now that doesn’t mean we won't have a web app at one point, but to start, it made sense to kick it off with iOS (and possibly Android)). - It also made it easier to implement (on our side) and access (as a user) things like adding new packs of cards and multiplayer (think Apple TV 😉)

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10yr ago

Stark

Maker

@agisilaostsaras thanks a lot for the comment, and thank you even more for beta testing Fold early on. Be sure to send us feedback, wishes and most of all a lot of wacky questions ;)

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10yr ago

@imcatnoone having fun with this! I shared with a friend who searched in the app store and couldn't find it (types "you" instead of "ya") not sure if there is some app store seo that can address that. Awesome work though!!

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10yr ago

Stark

Maker

@nasherasher Hey, Elliot! Thanks so much. Valid point there, will check that out and try to improve that.

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10yr ago

Danielle Newnham Podcast

Love this - would it be totally random to ask if you had considered a charity element i.e. crowdfunding said prices via app and if stated amount gets raised, user has to upload video carrying out particular task (if/where appropriate)?

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10yr ago

Stark

Maker

@daniellenewnham Thanks so much Danielle! We certainly thought about what we could do, but that was not one of them if I’m being honest. But I absolutely L O V E this idea! <3 Wow! Just shared this and the consensus is this idea is (and I quote) "SOOOOO great".

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10yr ago

Stark

Maker

@daniellenewnham just to repeat what @imcatnoone just said: This is SOOOOO GREAT! 😃Thanks for sharing your idea!

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10yr ago

Mimo

Congrats on the launch🎉 I was playing with the beta and was very impressed with the simple UI. Keep it up :)

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10yr ago

Stark

Maker

@lorenzschimik thanks a ton, Lorenz! Glad you do.

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10yr ago

Stark

Maker

@lorenzschimik Thanks for helping with our beta! What would you like to see next?

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10yr ago

ArtSquare

So... I believe @andykurtzig told this tale at a @StanfordBiz lecture - about how, before @JustAnswer, he started a similar platform, called, Prankster.com. It immediately turned into a prostitution and hired kill market. So... Watch out for that. @wouldyafold @avoiceandname @blehnert @imcatnoone @realasa @EconTalker

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10yr ago

Stark

Maker

@elizabethhunker hey Elizabeth! Thank for sharing thoughts and that insight. So the biggest difference there would be that these tasks are submitted by us and users. However, all questions submitted by users are reviewed by us and will be flagged and not accepted if they contain vulgar/sexist/racist/violent copy. Also, these tasks are not to be reenacted and we state that in our disclaimer/terms that you agree to before you even play. That is wild that the other platform got that far. None of that here.

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10yr ago

ArtSquare

@imcatnoone That sounds reasonable - and I think he shut it down as soon as he saw that happening, which I believe was within 24 hours.

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10yr ago

ArtSquare

@imcatnoone FB's market experienced similar problems day 1.

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10yr ago

Stark

Maker

@elizabethhunker whoa! That is wicked fast. Yikes. So good he shut it down but still appreciate you sharing this with me. Definitely great insights. Thank you!

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10yr ago

Watershed

Love this!! Giggled for at least ten minutes riding the bus this morning thinking about all these crazy situations. @rrhoover You need to get in on this! 😉

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10yr ago

Stark

Maker

@lachlanjc hahah! Be sure to share some wonky cards!

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10yr ago

Re:amaze

This is super brilliant, haha! Great job @imcatnoone @blehnert and team. Going to get many hours of fun into this. Now for a way to enforce my friends' claims!

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10yr ago

Stark

Maker

@davidsfeng @blehnert thanks so much, David! hahaha yessss.

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10yr ago