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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by ptero on Saturday November 11, 2017 @03:26PM (#15677989)
I do not think it is shut, but new entrants must offer something significantly better (or new and useful) than what is available from big 3. I am not sure what exactly Snaps value was beyond some funny face transforms. If nothing, it is not surprising if it fails once the novelty wears off.
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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by askafriend on Saturday November 11, 2017 @04:37PM (#15678319)
I think Nextdoor has a real opportunity here in offering something very differentiated and useful (to varying degrees, depending on neighborhood).
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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by retailbuyout on Sunday November 12, 2017 @09:26AM (#15680942)
Sure. But it’s useful today. Are they going to continue the unicorn startup charade and ruin the product in the progress, like facebook? Or snapchat? Or even twitter! We’d be distinctly better off as humans without any of them.
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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by hn_throwaway_99 on Saturday November 11, 2017 @03:40PM (#15678067)
It was certainly different when it launched, though, before most of its features were copied into Instagram.
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