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Ask HN: Please review our new iOS App Blicup

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Hi guys! This is my first submission to HN. My team and I have been working hard for the last couple of months and we’re now excited to share Blicup with the community: https://blicup.com

Sometimes we wanna chat about an specific subject and don’t simply share posts and wait for comments or frivolous likes. Blicup instantly connects you to people from all over the globe to chat about trending topics and things you enjoy the most.

You can read more about Blicup on Medium: bit.ly/aboutblicup

Hope you can try it out! We’re looking forward to hear your feedback!

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I read the question.

I read the blog post.

I visited http://Blicup.com.

I even watched the video.

I don't have an iPhone.

I cannot try out Blicup.

There does not seem to be any unique feature of the iPhone that Blicup requires. An interest in global chats about trending topics does not seem like something that would be more common among iPhone owners than those without.

My standard advice is build a web version so that:

1. More people can try out your product. This increases the chance that a few people will love it.

2. So that you own your customers. Apple owns people using the app store. Google owns people using the Play store. Ownership means that you can communicate with users directly using whatever channel works.

3. So that you can iterate whenever and however you want. The web has no approval process.

4. There is control over how your product is 'displayed'. Everything in the app store looks the same and the sameness is that of a .NET webforms quality enterprise template.

Good luck.

Sockpuppet voting and commenting is not allowed on HN, and we ban accounts that do so.

Shameless self promotion on HN.

Self promotion is allowed if the post is interesting, but it' very strange that this post get 9 upvotes ...

Anyway, some feedback to the OP: I watched the video and I was clueless about what this does. I read the about page, and it' not very clear, it looks like something between chat and Tweeter. Is this correct? Why is this better than Tweeter?

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