Ah, well... I can only look at this and smile... I built Notifo in 2010 which was essentially the same product of letting consumers receive notifications from any source they wanted (complete with developer API)... http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/18... - sadly without much traction it died a slow painful death. I like to think it was just ahead of its time. I have a soft spot in my heart for notifications, so I'll be watching this one intently.
@jazzychad Do you think it was timing, or do you think it was something else? Does Notify, or other apps like it, solve anything people don't already have solved? Seems like a solution looking for a problem, rather than a problem in need of a solution.
@m_mozafarian@jazzychad Traction is irrelevant it literally is an absolutely irrelevant metric outside of raising vc money or validating ego ( it doesn't tell you if a product is creating real value ) because everyone can leave tomorrow...it says nothing about core value and solving a need...just look at Facebooks other products that gained some initial traction, why because they have 1 billion users that why.
*value = retention ( no one has every been retained without adding value, if the value decreases you churn )
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Facebook just launched a Yo competitor.
Over a year ago, @joshm wrote this post about notifications becoming the next social platform and communication channel. Since then we've seen several apps where the entire value and interface is within the notification itself.
Good move by Facebook, it's going to be interesting to see how notifications (on iOS particularly) is going to adapt to more apps going this route. Apps are certainly going to have to fight to get your attention in an already busy feed.
This is an attempt to be a better way to consume news...which is basically what Twitter is already. My question is whether there is enough sources that "matter" to make a standalone app? For me, the only things that matter enough to actually look at every notification are close friends (text), work conversations about Horizon or consulting work (slack)...and that's about it. I may be an outlier, but I don't really read mainstream news; just follow relevant industry news (but virtually no source is good enough that I'd want to get notified every time they published anything). I'm not sure what the solid use case is for Notify. For me, there isn't one.
PS: I'm surprised Facebook made their landing page with WordPress. Anyone else find that odd?
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