Meet Flock, a Fun and Casual Way to Make Plans

Posted by awaxman11 on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @02:13PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/look-what-i-made/4e667ad7a098

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Re:Meet Flock, a Fun and Casual Way to Make Plans by anujabro on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @09:21PM (#6023943)

Great idea! I'm sure you will be subject to network effects. What about users without a facebook?

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Re:Meet Flock, a Fun and Casual Way to Make Plans by awaxman11 on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @09:48PM (#6024029)

Thanks! We're working on it! Next release will have ability to create an account w/ email address as well

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Re:Meet Flock, a Fun and Casual Way to Make Plans by jamesaguilar on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @05:14PM (#6022880)

Love it. This would definitely solve a problem for me if I could get my whole clique to use it.

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Re:Meet Flock, a Fun and Casual Way to Make Plans by mburshteyn1 on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @05:57PM (#6023100)

Yea the big hurdle is to get users to build up their network of close friends.

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Re:Meet Flock, a Fun and Casual Way to Make Plans by Zhenya on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @08:36PM (#6023777)

What happens if my friends are on Android? What is the fail scenario?

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Re:Meet Flock, a Fun and Casual Way to Make Plans by awaxman11 on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @08:54PM (#6023862)

We are working on making it available for everyone, stay tuned! In the meantime, you can share your Flock w/ Android friends through text message, email, twitter, and facebook

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Re:Meet Flock, a Fun and Casual Way to Make Plans by aytekin on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @04:50PM (#6022694)

Great presentation of the idea/app.

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Re:Meet Flock, a Fun and Casual Way to Make Plans by PommeDeTerre on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @06:19PM (#6023187)

The name "Flock" was already used a few years back, for a browser that had some social media integration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_(web_browser)

Given how that effort appears to have failed, the name "Flock" is somewhat tainted for many people who remember that browser.

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Re:Meet Flock, a Fun and Casual Way to Make Plans by mburshteyn1 on Thursday July 11, 2013 @09:11AM (#6025785)

Yea, we know the name Flock is not unique but it's so good at embodying the functionality of the app we decided to stick with it.

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