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which subreddit? r/technology hasn't been giving me much love

the post got 112 upvotes yesterday and stayed on the front page all day. that many upvotes is an indicator of relevant content, not spam.

what would you use ?

Yes, you're absolutely right. I was kickin myself all day yesterday because push notifications weren't working. I couldnt figure out why but my guess was it had to do with the provisioning profile. i resubmitted late last night, and requested expedited review. hopefully itll be out in the next few days. either way, thanks for the constructive feedback!

if you believe in your product and think there's a need than why would you consider it spam?

there are ways of posting tactfully. i believe in the app thus i think it's useful for those students. i dont continuously post over and over, so far, only once per page. i have students liking and commenting, even friending me telling me they like the app.

hah! the post was meant to be mutually beneficial

why?

i'd say the majority yes. i wish i had better stats on the referrals. i think the facebook groups helped a lot too.

yea that thing is ugly as sin

turns out you're right. anybody have suggestions on how to fix this?

dang, friend reported the same issue. not sure why they're not going.

sorry if it sounded hostile, i appreciated the comment! my point was that the integrity of the app relies on a fixed radius. im not opposed to increasing the fixed radius initially while there arent a lot of users. however expanding the radius according to nearby users makes the location aspect less relevant. if the nearest user is 20 miles away than they should probably use another app.

yep, just two! i just pushed an update that includes push notifications. you might need to log out and back in, but it should show the prompt. from there im coding in a notification for when the area opens

yea definitely sounds necessary. im just wondering - lets say you leave the 1 mile area, somebody @ replies you, when you open the app you'll be in a totally new spot and the message will be at the old spot.

1. you're absolutely right. just pushed an update for push notifications and coding in some logic as we speak

2. you get a ribbon for being an explorer (being one of the people to unlock an area)

3. i want to add media , but im scared it might get crowded with a lot of nudes. maybe if we add karma and let users with a certain amount post, it would work

hey thanks a lot! thats pretty much the same way i look at

ahh, crap, thanks for pointing that out

hey thanks a lot! the app was inspired because i needed to scalp tickets at a concert so events would be key

dave? pretty sure i met you a few times in SF at the TRUE car meetups. thanks for the comment!

true! right now im targeting college freshman. if it catches on in the dorms i think itll work.

thanks! one of our biggest goals was to maintain privacy by only requiring a username to sign up.

i think you might be right... hadn't thought of that

there are a million and one apps that offer the ability to chat with people. if it's a concern people can use one of those

i see a huge difference between location based chat and subject based chat.

hmm, the 1 mile radius is important to me. psychologically, knowing that the people you're talking to are within walking distance is exciting

I liked the article but didn't see any mention of the company name. Also, what do they sell?

pud - been a fan since "death metal office drumming".

i've been looking to putting some of my music on iTunes recently, so really excited about this service. any chance of supporting Pandora?

Reddit has a more defensible position than Craigslist in relation to verticals because of its karma system. Karma carries over from sub-reddit to sub-reddit and people obsess over it. In my opinion, this is the 'drug' that keeps people around.

Craigslist on the other hand has no karma. A good seller or good buyer is completely anonymous. People will post to Craigslist if they can sell just as easily they'll post to another site if they can sell there. Reddit is not the same. A redditor will more readily post to reddit because of the sweet, sweet karma.

Very cool. Sometimes I receive invoices in the mail that give me the option to pay online. However most of the sites require a sign up and account. The smarter sites have a widget that allows you to type in your unique invoice id and pay without signing up.

This has always seemed like a possible opportunity for a SaaS product in my opinion. Essentially you'd let the site generate the invoices using your code. Give them a snippet to put on their site and handle the payment processing. Maybe give them a dashboard to see all their data.

Embeddable Invoices.