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Lyondhür Picciarelli
Installed it, used it for 2.5 minutes; saw a lot of lonely dudes in their bedrooms looking at the smartphone camera. Uninstalled it.
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@lyondhur I laughed so hard. You're exactly right, concern is correct, that will be the case for today I presume. The main motivation behind peek is showing others what you do, where you are, letting people join in your experiences. We'll be glad to have you back anytime. Thanks for your comment.
@arda_yaman Best of luck with the project mate. I guess more than the app itself, you lads seem to have the bet spirit behind the work (which counts more than people know).
Good fun! Peek is chatroulette for mobile - a gallery of confused looking early-adopters and VCs trying to figure out what's going on - no hot dogs, yet
I unfortunately can't try it as I have a Pixel, but I absolutely love the copy on the landing page. Also, #freethenipple and #rickroll FTW.
@anthilemoon it's absolutely amazing to see that everything we've written on our landing page is read. Thanks for the support!
@revhuff there is. Only the broadcaster is not allowed to chat but stalkers can chat if they join any live broadcast.
Wow wow. What a wonderful way to write content for the landing page. :D LOL.
There is a minor type in the footer though - Instead of agreement its aggreement.
@arda_yaman Hey, the app crashes when I tap go live, is it just me? I had accidentally blocked the request to access location.
@iamsooraj we weren't expecting this much love, we're updating all of our services. thanks for the heads up!
Love the vibe you guys have going with this, and that landing page is awesome. One constructive criticism, if I may: you should really consider a different term for viewers than "stalkers." Although I appreciate the jokeful nature you guys have going, as someone who's worked with victims of stalking in the past, it really isn't a term to throw around or joke about so lightly. Just my two cents. Otherwise love what you guys are doing!
@evansims thanks for your comment Evan. We understand your concerns with our terminology, and will definitely keep that in mind.
Can we talk about the global world market by mobile OS? https://www.idc.com/promo/smartp... or https://www.gartner.com/newsroom...
Marry me, damn it! fkng marry me! I can't live since Marketing died to leave the seat to "branding"... Please marry me, any of you two! so, ahem, WTS is this? a social media thing? yay! To show the world who I really am? No shit! Seriously, Please let me follow the project as an anthropological research. Can I? I promise to post every week, record, myself live with a nipple out!
@mariana_salcido I'm dead. Let's do this. I mean, the research. Maybe both. Anyway thanks a lot, can't wait to hear the details of your research.
This launch page seems like it would confuse and alienate most people outside the world of product makers and marketers, do most of you disagree? Is this really the right way to go for a consumer product outside of just appealing to the PH community? Is that really the right early audience for this product? Mobile page had no calls to action even. Feel like most people would just churn.
@lukensok The main reason why we're building stuff is the consensus factor. We don't like following rules. I agree that we're ignoring conventional knowledge but that's the motivation behind peek. Therefore we don't really care having no call to actions at all. Thanks for your comment Lukens.
...best landing page this year. I lost it at "Peek is available on App Store and we don't give a single fuck about Google Play Store, yet."
The landing page is not good, imo.
I get you're trying to break rules, but alienating the rest of the world outside your sphere is not a good sign. Would've gotten the app if I understood the UX of the page (It took me a while to realize the nav is actually clickable and not just random text.)
It's funny but terrible UX.
Cheers.
@ftxrc we don't care if the UX of a one pager is "terrible". Terrible for the consensus, pretty good for the rebels. Plus, it's pretty obvious that the nav is clickable. Even for the consensus. Cheers
I wouldn't have DL'ed this to try except for the copy on the web page. Brilliant. Giving it a try tonight.
I'm working in Brazil and it was so nice to see a stream from back home in East Village, NYC! Once this hits critical mass, I could see using this to check out a protest on 6th Ave, whether a party at a bar is worth going to, or how crowded the park is.
One inconvenience is the number of push notifications I'm getting. It seems like the app sends one for every new stream. I turned them off for now but I'd turn it back on if they were a little more "intelligent". Maybe just notify me if a certain stream gets popular or if there's one within a certain distance of me.
@paarikan thanks a lot for your kind words. you're right about the push notifications, we weren't expecting this much love so we're now fixing it.
I would like to say something about the product, but i happen to not have any apple devices. What's with all the native apple apps anyways? :(
"No followers, no friend requests, no likes, not even profiles." But sign in with your facebook account. And then click the "profile" button.
I got rickrolled twice. Once I clicked the first footer link, I knew the second one would be a rickroll but I clicked it anyway :( Good job at cutting through the generic copy that's littered across every landing page.
@nick_georgiou1 thanks for the love Nick that means a lot, sorry for the rickrolling though.
Love the Y Combinator statement! And the Rick Astley Privacy Policy. And...basically the rest of it. Good stuff! You got my vote :)
@milank49 Hmm tough call. I think most "kids" may not use FB, but most have it. It's like checking your mailbox, even though you do everything by email. Also, lots of people get FB just to log into other applications. And in lieu of Instragram Connect, FB serves as a good signup/login product IMO, since it provides decent filters on ID authenticity, etc.
@milank49 Just trying to be helpful... I think you mean "Nobody OVER 18 still uses Facebook."
@msstarkman @milank49 Actually, I think nobody UNDER 18 uses Facebook is correct...
@msstarkman @milank49 @photodesign well, there certainly is billions of nobodys using Facebook daily.
Looks interesting from the landing page, but very disappointed you're not using the official Facebook login API and instead making me enter in my FB creds.