bradbenvenuti

Product: Simple iOS app to save, share, and discuss things you enjoy (articles, movies, music, etc.) with your real friends, and escape the bullshit of traditional social media.

Hurdles (in addition to a highly competitive market): (1) We are struggling to get users to share items using our app instead of text/SMS; (2) Sharing items with non-users is not an appealing experience; (3) We need to make UI and functionality improvements.

Help: We think building an iMessage app would encourage users to connect with our platform through their regular texting habit. We’d like to get feedback from the Hacker News community on whether building this or any other feature will allow our app to be commercially viable, or if we should scrap the project.

Gratefully, Brad, Brandon, and Caleb

We’re actually working on an MVP very similar to what you’re describing. You can check it out here: http://getnextup.com

We’d love to hear what you think about it.

The fact that the url of this article ends in .asp kind of makes me laugh a little. Although I would love to see movement away from Microsoft products, its clearly much more difficult than the article makes it out to be.

Quickly skimmed through a few tutorials and this looks very promising. I've been starting to do some iOS dev so I will definitely be reading through some of these.