Re:Poll: would you pay for a virtual filesystem to your soci...
by zemanel on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @09:59PM
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Indeed, to the "cool" and also "show a need". I'm currently looking for the "need".
Take for example, Flick, Picasa and similar. At first it doesn't seem a use case because there are already dozens of online, offline and hybrid applications to manage those collections. But when you add "web interoperability" to it, as in, copy/pasting/moving from into/out of those and into other webapps (copying some pictures from Flick into Posterous, directly) it starts to sound a lot more exciting and worth exploring, which is where i'm at at the moment.
Re:Poll: would you pay for a virtual filesystem to your soci...
by jf on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @01:13AM
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My "need" for something like this would be so I could have an effortless way to keep backups of all of my social network data. In fact, ideally this product would be integrated into Dropbox, since that's already part of my backup "strategy".
I would pay money for this. In fact, I'd be willing to pay money now, up front, for a proof-of-concept.
But as another commenter said, you have to show a need.
They say to show people using your startup in a normal workflow. So if you had 2 or 3 examples of somebody interacting with their computer and how much easier it is with your app, it would probably hit home better than just a description.
I think the killer feature here is the ability to search for new social apps and auto-signup. It has the potential to turn the social networking thing upside down. (But like all really cool ideas, the audience is probably even "cooler" than the idea)