Re:Uber S-1
by karmelapple on Thursday April 11, 2019 @06:29PM
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Quick note that Facebook, unfortunately, has no real competitor for the sheer number of things it does. As soon as one comes out built for non-technical users the way Facebook is - and hopefully is a nonprofit - I’ll go running to it and encourage my friends, too.
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I’d want one that’s just an online account with a single picture, name, address, phone number that lets you have friends. No posting - basically just a contact list that’s always up to date because people update themselves.
Keybase could be this.
The main way to get people in would be a focus on event scheduling relying on twilio and sms for including users that don’t have accounts.
Make it cheap but not free ($1/month for people with more than 25 contacts) and advertise no ads or tracking ever.
What would motivate everyone you know to use this service?
Convenient way to do event scheduling - some friends I know are not on FB so it’s a pain currently.
Also having up to date contacts to stay in touch. Phone numbers and addresses change and it’s hard to know when that happens (and currently most people don’t put this on FB).
Re:Uber S-1
by cheerlessbog on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:11PM
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Could LinkedIn go this way...bridge from its business network to casual social network also?
I doubt it - linked in is a mess. They also have too much tied up with recruiters being their real users.
I’d want something simple.
> non-technical users
what did you mean?
I didn’t write that, but I’d guess easy to use like FB (grandma can use it).
Not setting up your own locally hosted diaspora node.
Re:Uber S-1
by gandutraveler on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:36PM
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It's amazing how FB has gotten so easy to use now. As one of the early users I remember FB was more cooler I'm those days because majority found it too difficult to use.
FWIW I deleted fb 3 years ago.
Re:Uber S-1
by karmelapple on Saturday April 13, 2019 @10:28AM
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This is indeed what I meant.