Re:Hello from Orkut
by apatters on Friday August 05, 2016 @09:00AM
(#12231918)
If the concept here is a social network which brings us closer to people who have similar interests and are geographically close to us then that is really cool. But a couple things don't feel right to me.
1) No web app - honestly I'm over installing apps and being bound to my phone. You lost me here.
2) A bit of 'wall of text' explaining what this is and I appreciate that the orkut.com bit is heartfelt, but this is not the best way to pull me in.
3) No actual content from the network that I can browse on the web to understand through immersion (this is what is needed instead of or to supplement the about text).
4) 'loves not likes' - Without delivering on the other bullets here I didn't connect with the product and therefore this sounded tacky.
5) The best of the jots - makes me feel maybe this is instagram?
It just feels that the product planner is checked out or there hasn't been much conversation with the market or something. I guess I'd understand a lot better if I installed the app and signed up, but not going to, I shouldn't have to jump through those hoops just to understand the product.
Admittedly I am just an average curious passerby with a short attention span here so my $0.02 is worth just that, $0.02. But hello.com could be onboarding people a lot more effectively in my opinion.
Hate to just parrot everyone else but having no web app is the root of all of these issues I think.
Orkut was great and I'm over FB/Twitter, hope this does well.
Re:Hello from Orkut
by vidarh on Friday August 05, 2016 @09:50AM
(#12232289)
Re #2, consider that hello.com is the landing page for the app. The page linked here is a page with a different purpose that most potential users won't see.
1) No web app - honestly I'm over installing apps and being bound to my phone. You lost me here.
2) A bit of 'wall of text' explaining what this is and I appreciate that the orkut.com bit is heartfelt, but this is not the best way to pull me in.
3) No actual content from the network that I can browse on the web to understand through immersion (this is what is needed instead of or to supplement the about text).
4) 'loves not likes' - Without delivering on the other bullets here I didn't connect with the product and therefore this sounded tacky.
5) The best of the jots - makes me feel maybe this is instagram?
It just feels that the product planner is checked out or there hasn't been much conversation with the market or something. I guess I'd understand a lot better if I installed the app and signed up, but not going to, I shouldn't have to jump through those hoops just to understand the product.
Admittedly I am just an average curious passerby with a short attention span here so my $0.02 is worth just that, $0.02. But hello.com could be onboarding people a lot more effectively in my opinion.
Hate to just parrot everyone else but having no web app is the root of all of these issues I think.
Orkut was great and I'm over FB/Twitter, hope this does well.