Ask YC: Why do you think Pownce failed?

Re:Ask YC: Why do you think Pownce failed? by noodle on Monday December 01, 2008 @04:19PM (#382127)

i'm just going to go out on a limb and say simplicity. pownce tried to solve a lot of problems, and in doing that, lost users. or, at least, thats why i didn't use it. if i wanted to do XYZ, i'd go do XYZ instead of using pownce's not-quite-as-good version of it.

also, the api took forever.

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Re:Ask YC: Why do you think Pownce failed? by apgwoz on Monday December 01, 2008 @04:27PM (#382145)

When Pownce launched, the reasoning for it was that Facebook didn't have the features Kevin Rose and friends wanted. But, as luck would have it, Facebook grew up a bunch and said, "We have lots of people, and lots of money, lets build in all of these features." Then, Pownce was (excuse the pun) pownced.

How do you get users to use Facebook, and Pownce, if they already use Facebook and there's no longer a compelling reason to use Pownce?

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Re:Ask YC: Why do you think Pownce failed? by noodle on Monday December 01, 2008 @04:38PM (#382161)

i was in on the beta, and even then it wasn't really far ahead of the featureset curve.

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Re:Ask YC: Why do you think Pownce failed? by smoody on Monday December 01, 2008 @04:36PM (#382159)

totally agree. there's power in a singular purpose. sometimes with singular purpose, one runs the risk of being branded a feature and not a company. but, other times, a twitter emerges.

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