I wish I had $30k to waste on something stupid. Like medical bills.
People here are super negative for no reason. It looks like someone’s garage project, why does there have to be immediately an android app ?
I find the idea of tapping the phones to connect a nice one, it looks like a unique feature, but i also think that’s not enough to make people want to use it. Actually it will serve as both, a reason to use it, and maybe even a stronger one not to.
With services like this, you need some critical mass of people to get it off the ground, and i don’t see how he can achieve that without some strong capital making the push(and yes, it does need the android version for that to happen). The social network market seems quite saturated already - unless you have something amazing your competitor can’t add in a week, i don’t see it happening.
why does there have to be immediately an android app ?
Because back then Friendster was the leading social media site in Southeast Asia, and later it got dumped as people went to Facebook, beginning with the games. That the people who grew up with it are now mostly on Android phones.
The social network market seems quite saturated already - unless you have something amazing your competitor can’t add in a week, i don’t see it happening.
There do exist people who are trying to get out of toxic social media networks run by supervillains, and looking for alternatives asides from Mastadon. While it’s so tempting to think the guy who bought the domain name and trademarks could do something, I doubt his project could fly given his previous Medium posts.
most useless purchase of a domain ever
Modern social networks are pretty trash, but I don’t have an iPhone so this is a non starter.
Even so, I’d rather just… text my friends.
Needs to tap phones with a real friend? I guess I’ll never be able to use it then :D
Also, no android app…?
Also, also, it was not the first social media. Irc-galleria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC-Galleria) and other were first :)
I can remember Hot or Not being before Friendster. I don’t know when it started, but I found it around 2000.
For anyone unaware, the idea was simple. Go to the website, and you’d be presented with a random picture. Could be male, could be female. You could adjust these settings to be more specific as to which pictures you’d get.
But basically, you’d see a picture. Then you vote. Hot? Or not? And after you vote, you can see another picture to vote on, as well as the score from the previous voted on picture.
That’s it. Thats the whole thing. No messaging. No interacting. Nothing. Just you having an account that you upload a single picture to. Then other people can randomly get the chance to vote on you, and you can also check your own score. The ONLY other thing you could do is share your URL with friends. Usually through AIM or YIM or ICQ or MSN Messanger.
I really think that concept was ahead of its time. I think it would have worked really well as an app in 2016.
He replied to a comment in the post asking why theres no Android app and says he does plan to make one
Very cool!
Good for Friendster sticking to the hardware platform they’re comfortable with.
Yes, I’m ready for your salty downvotes, android users and all I can say in response is NewPipe, Revanced, etc etc. Where’s the iPhone version?
If something isn’t on Android, it’s because the developers made a conscious decision.
The things you listed aren’t on iOS because Apple hates you (more than Google has managed to, thus far) and doesn’t want to let you have choice.
