Agree that this is definitely not new. There have been few variants of this play across the US. Trio (thinktrio.com), for example have been around for quite some time. I wonder though, if the typical HN reader is a great target market for this offering.
I do not think you need to be a US citizen just because you were born there. There are countries that allow a child born in the US to acquire the citizenship of its parents.
I can understand having to pay (in any of the ways you mention) if you are going to use the product. The question is, should I have to pay to even learn about the product?
All the talk about latency has me wondering if the work here is eventually going to push telemedicine forward. Maybe a first aid kit that contains a tele-dressing kit that can be used by a remote worker to perform minor but intricate procedures?
I think that Whatsapp does not understand how the diehard users use it.
I live in India, one of whatsapp's biggest markets. I am stunned every day by the level of penetration that whatsapp has achieved here. From people in the slums to people over 65, everyone uses whatsapp. I regularly see long-form, local language content on whatsapp. I wonder who is writing all this. It reminds me of the early email days.
Whatsapp has wasted way too much time trying to cater to the snapchat demographic. But the snapchat demographic, either has not heard of Whatsapp (average US user) or thinks whatsapp is what you use to talk to grandma (the average Indian teenager).
They announced their intent to work on digital payments a full four months after demonetization was announced in India. No release yet (8 months and counting). They have probably squandered a massive opportunity here.
To my knowledge, they do not have any presence in India, their largest market. I wonder if that would have made all the difference.
I would. But I suspect that either your premiums will be so high for the risky sites (linkedin, facebook), that I could not afford it or I would clean up.
Hey this is really interesting. Congratulations. A few questions/observations.
1. You should really be linking to - https://usersnap.com/jira that website has a lot more clarity.
2. In your pricing page you mention '10 users'. What constitutes a user?
3. If I have three projects, how would I select a project from the screenshot?
"What I’ve learned (aside from sucking it up, and sending a kind, helpful response) is: design your product as if it was going to be used by people that are a software literacy step below the target user."
Completely with you on the 'sucking up and sending a kind helpful response'. Snark does not pay. It makes no sense to snap at a user.
Regarding the other point about first-time users. I have a slightly related theory.
When you design something, design it for someone who has the attention span of a two-year-old. Not because your app is going to be used by a two-year-old. But because that is how much mental bandwidth a user is going to give you. Your user is probably busy or just likes to multi-task.
Working that much harder on the UI pays off, or at least prevents a disaster.
Speaking as a developer. You may be paid by the impressions but how much you are paid depends on the CTRs. Nothing works for CTRs like targeting. The more data you can share about users, the better it is for you. All this other stuff probably contributes to user churn as much it does to your bottom line. This is one of the reasons that a lot of apps ask you for location permissions even when they don't need it.
Job requirements are hard because we try to write a single req for three types of audience.
1. A recruiter: Do I have a CV in my DB with these keywords?
2. A referrer: Will my friend fit this?
3. Candidate: What should I know? What should I do? How much do they pay? Is this the right move for me?
In some forums you just cannot split them up (LinkedIn). In some other, you can (emails). Try splitting them up. It will be a lot easier.
The intention was not to mislead. The linked paper in the article makes a reference to Vergence Accommodation Conflict.So, in a sense, it is mentioned in the article.
Totally agree. I have an app and I tried doing this in Quora a couple of times. I have stopped doing this. The only way you can win in quora is to answer questions that are related to your product with a simple bio against your name.