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Arc

Pretty immature to frame what they've built as "Screw Yo," especially given it looks like it was three non-technical folks that outsourced development. Be positive and humble, please.

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12yr ago

Book Your Sales

@joshm That was my thought too. Fine to use another product as a reference "Yo for text alerts" but not "Screw Yo". Personal preference maybe.

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12yr ago

Kitty

@joshm i think it's better than launching modestly and having people label it as "oh it's just another yo clone". If people would know they're a clone, might as well push it further to get more attention :)

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12yr ago

Wonder Keyboard

@joshm I thought it was a catchy title, and playfully riffing on a product's ideology rather than the product itself (hence, "text matters" as the proceeding sentence). Also, absolutely nothing wrong with non-technical folks.

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12yr ago

Product Hunt

I'm particularly fond of the first channel featured in their discover section. :) Drop is obviously has some Yo inspiration but this is another example of a notification-driven app. The value and interaction occurs on the lockscreen and it doesn't take an open derive value. This is great because the friction to "use" the app is substantially decreased; however, it has several limitations. How do app creators measure success when they have 0 data on whether users are even seeing these notifications let alone finding value from them? cc @orarbel

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12yr ago

@rrhoover Did you ever try Broadcast by the makers of App.net? It seems to be a really similar idea to this and other products that are popping up now. It was released late 2013, but didn't seem to gain a lot of traction.

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12yr ago

ComeUp

@rrhoover Sadly, they now spam Twitter with fake accounts hoping to have some "traction". Not pretty.

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12yr ago

Shyp

I love your zero state page when I haven't subscribed to any channel. However, I can't seem to find the discover button as soon as you subscribe to one channel and the only way I can add a channel is the + button. But the + button has no auto-complete. Bug or feature?

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12yr ago

St@tus

Took me a while to understand that the "No Inspiration?" button takes me to the Discover page, but I finally figured it out. Excited to see some notifications roll in.

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12yr ago