If it doesn't do something with both Facebook and Twitter (with Google+ to come) then you are gonna look lame.
Am I the only person who feels slightly bored that about 50% of startups I hear about are basically all about sharing links on social networking websites?
Well I agree. There are billions of bucks to be made in the domains of enterprise and industrial applications, and social network integration is not really a business case there - maybe just a potential security issue.
Since when did start-up become synonymous with consumer application start-up?
Since when did start-up become synonymous with consumer application start-up?
If it makes you feel any better, our startup is enterprise focused. Not everybody is focused on just consumer apps.
I don't know about you guys, but I am enticed by the idea of selling something to organizations that generally expect to (and do) spend actual money on products and services. The whole advertising based, or even freemium model, world of consumer apps just doesn't resonate with me. Not saying it doesn't work, obviously it does. Just saying that it doesn't feel like where I personally want to be.
Your right, almost all of the consumer apps seem to revolve around ads and harvesting data. Is there not a market for pay-for consumer apps that let people do something interesting with their devices?
Actually I don't think there is. Consumers have gotten used to free, and 50% daily deals... The only way to make a profitable consumer business is to make the consumers the products themselves. This is with apps though, with hardware it's different obviously. There are some exceptions like Photoshop, and operating systems... but by and large, it's hard
I feel that we must have exhausted social media for the time being , how many different ways do we need to share stuff with each other?
Wouldn't it be more interesting to find new stuff that people can do with computers. We have all of these "Post PC" devices now, but to be honest I feel I have yet to see a killer application for them.
From what I remember in the early 2000s these social websites mostly started out as some geeks spare time project to show off their mad php skillz , some of them gained traction and become fulltime businesses some didn't.
Now everybody seems to want massive financial backing and rockstar MIT programmers to build them.
I remember using late 90s versions of ICQ which was remarkably ahead of it's time and I'm surprised it never gained more traction although later versions seemed like a regression.
Am I the only person who feels slightly bored that about 50% of startups I hear about are basically all about sharing links on social networking websites?