Why would you want to automatically share information about every purchase you make with your credit/debit card with the world? It just sounds like a recipe for disaster with very little upside.
Can anyone who uses this service (if any HN members do) explain the usefulness of it to me? I might just be misunderstanding the purpose.
It's the easiest way to share your credit card information with the world.
2) Submit photo to hacker news
btw i cant believe nobody point a finger on google yet, this part of their fault too. there should a 'proper' mechanism on their webmaster tool an option to excluded a sensitive data Or make it an opt-out features Or add one regex line to detect an anomaly data on their search.
ffs they have billions to tinker around with it
Don't get me wrong, I don't care for Twitter myself. I don't use it, and I do find most of it to be trite and little more than navel gazing. But I can see some useful signal on Twitter, I just cannot see how it could not get buried under an avalanche of noise.
Blippy seems totally vacuous.
I can see it catching on with kids definitely.
I am also keeping in mind that there are many jokes in the podcasts about Mr. Laport's proclivity to purchase tech items, at times in quantity, as an early-early adopter.
Kids that don't have a credit card?
If you buy something and then a number of your 'followers' buy the same item a few days afterwards, that information is very valuable.
Then they will monetize by giving it to the only people who really care how much you spend at Starbucks: Starbucks (and competitors).
Even if this turns out to be test data, it's still pretty shocking and will tarnish the service forever.
On a more serious note, I think Blippy's main use is efficient bragging.