Ben Bernstein

@preetangad @bencbernstein even if your goal is meaningful data collection rather than virality, i think that unless you tune this core mechanic to make it more strategic, it won't reach a wide audience because the risk/reward system doesn't feel well balanced to me. i'd be happy to talk more about this on chat or share some of our experiences making games at burningflowers. again, think the...

This is a solid idea, Angad. The ecoystem seems a little convoluted though. Shouldn't you have to invest some of your money in the pitch, otherwise, why not upvote everything? I think there's a lot of opportunity for this to be game-ified and go viral, but the system of rewards seems like it needs some clarification.

@shwinnabego @bencbernstein i hear you, huge opportunity i think. we're also working on a social sharing tool that uses a different method, would be interesting to talk more, looks like you're also in new york :)

nice work ashwinn, this looks really nice. great to see people re-tackling social sharing, as facebook newsfeed is just not a satisfying experience.

cool idea - wish you could search for people based on skill

When I see apps like this, it reminds me how PR = Product in the beginning. Your whole product can be a PR 'joke', and it probably should in the beginning.

I really like this idea and design, but I think it might be really hard to get people to pay 99 cents for an app that interrupts them... since so many apps do that for free :/

hi ph, my name is ben and we made Cat Shake out of our need for an instant smile. japan has been helpful with this. this explains it pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gywLHouAUTQ