Snapchat's timeout feature is not just a novelty, is it allowing for a whole different type of digital communication. The sender does not have to worry about where their image might show up. It frees people to take goofy photos and act more naturally (as opposed to all the posed, staged shots on Instagram and Facebook).
I agree it frees people up to do the goofy, but as someone who's been doing the goofy my whole life, snapchat does nothing to add value in that respect. It just promotes it and now people understand the goofy.
Regardless if you are goofy or not SnapChat enables you to share that goofiness in a whole new way. You wouldn't send the stuff you send on SnapChat in a text or share it on Facebook.
And it's about much more than just being goofy. You share random things from your daily life that are interesting but not interesting enough to be sent in a text or be posted on Facebook.
I don't know why this misconception keeps getting propogated. If the motivation to save pictures is there then a person will save the pictures. I have to believe it's the fad. I mean poke had this same feature yet it never took off
> If the motivation to save pictures is there then a person will save the pictures.
Considering most "snaps" are sent between friends and family these days, it's important to understand that friends aren't fucking each other over to save pictures of cats with finger-painted mustaches.
Of course, if someone is dead-set on saving a picture from Snapchat then it's possible... but Snapchat isn't about sending dick pics anymore. I believe it's outgrown that, the same way when Vine started with was essentially an amateur porn broadcasting app. For the general public, Snapchat images appear and then they go poof, but I agree with you... it's hard to stop dicks from being dicks no matter how you send your photos.
But the one objective fact about the situation is that Snapchat is still the most convenient way to send photos and videos that are reasonably guaranteed to virtually disappear. Saving them out of Snapchat secretly isn't a priority nor is it trivial for 99% of people using the service.
the point is that assumption should always be made that anything you share on any service will be saved our available. I have to believe it's more the fad and brand vs this false sense of security
No, it's not that they are guaranteed to disappear. It's that there is no expectation for them to last. It is an ephemeral image that doesn't need to be saved or managed or taken with the gravitas that living in your camera roll or being posted for the rest of time has.
taking the perspective of the receiver is hard to justify as well. I mean really deleting a mms or just disabling it in any of the messaging services really is not that hard.
And yet, here we are with snapchat being hugely successful. Maybe you just don't understand what makes a product like this successful, and why things that are "not that hard" may be something that literally nobody does for a certain reason because they are hard enough.
im not saying its not hard and im not saying I dont' understand it, but to claim its something more than just the fad and brand is what im questioning.
You send random things in SnapChat since you know it won't clutter your receiver's phone. It enables a whole new type of conversation and I'm sorry if you don't understand that. Fad or not SnapChat is a big part of me and my friends' life right now.
Yes, when I read that I made sure to note the year. It is true, he was not far off.
I would love to see what else he said around this sentence, maybe he did recognize the huge non-commercial potential but this is the only sentence that got attention.
I agree that you should not immediately write off something, but there is definitely a need to lead/mentor people in the right way. When pg says, "I am worried..." he is doing the same thing as these quotes: expressing doubt.
That is what makes it so tough. As an entrepreneur you are hearing criticism often, sometimes it a super helpful and you need to change direction, other times it means you are onto something HUGE. It is difficult to decide which one it is.
[On one of the reasons they have a 7 day payout period]
We were not willing to compromise on the experience of going to Stripe, deciding "OK, Stripe looks good, I will sign up.", and then can launch right there and then.
What a great, focusing vision for a product experience.
I have also been impressed with how responsive Stripe is to feedback. In the interview Patrick gets excited about a new webhook for payment transfers that the interviewer recommends. Knowing Stripe, it is probably already implemented.
Yeah, pain points and inefficiencies are a popular way to look find ideas.
However, I have found following a user behavior to be a little more useful for me. Sometimes the new idea or innovation is not easily categorized as a pain point, like in the case of Twitter. People were posting status messages incessantly in IM. Once Twitter launched, users had a service that aligned closely with that behavior.
Most people wouldn't recognize the status message feature of IM as a pain point or inefficiency, it was just a feature.
1. Doctor FootCare updated their checkout page to include a coupon code field (and a few other minor changes)
2. With the updated version, Doctor FootCare saw a 90% decrease in revenue.
3. Once Doctor FootCare took the coupon code out of the new version (B) the conversion rate of the page was 6.5% higher than the old checkout page (A). The new page without the coupon code field is not pictured.
That is a huge change, but I would not blindly assume that this result proves that the coupon code field should not be included in your checkout form. I would also like more data about the test.
With the fragmentation of mobile operating systems, this move will take quite a while. As long as Apple, Google and RIM do not allow cross-platform messaging outside of SMS, SMS will still stay strong. I will always have friends who are using Android & other platforms and SMS is still the only way to communicate with them all.
