Re:Ask HN: How important is Facebook Connect for startup?
by testme4ever2 on Thursday December 19, 2013 @07:18PM
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Thanks for your input. I see the viral point if there is an auto wall post, but if user has to approve wall post, unless there is an incentive (like in game app when user tweet or FB post, they would get golds or coins for the game), I do not see why users would post in their wall unless they are truly a fan to the app/site/marketplace.
I am asking this question as I am trying to decide if I should implement FB connect to the marketplace startup that I am working on. If I do it, it would be for
sign up / registration
login
wall post when user post a listing
wall post when user buy a listing
the only thing that I find it a value is the wall post, but then if user does not authorize it, then it's useless nonetheless (unless I give incentive to post).
Re:Ask HN: How important is Facebook Connect for startup?
by idoh on Friday December 20, 2013 @06:30PM
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I could see it as an option for sign up, but you won't get much action from people manually posting things.
Re:Ask HN: How important is Facebook Connect for startup?
by cratermoon on Thursday December 19, 2013 @06:09PM
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Yep, the site owner gets lots of users effectively pre-registered in a user database managed for you with a written, documented API for accessing user info. Saves the team from having to write or integration a user registration and login system and avoids the security pitfalls that have gotten multiple companies in trouble.
The caveat is that the whole thing is a bit of a black art to get right. You can't just bolt it on and expect good things to happen, instead you have to build the whole thing inside-out. What I mean is that you start with FB Connect & Wall posts as the core of the app, and then build something that will get people to agree to the posts and have posts that have good viral properties.
(I used to work on viral FB apps up until a couple months ago, and did the above for two apps)