Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Posit: there hasn’t been a sustained break out social app not funded by a big tech company since Snap?
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Spencer
@spencermarell.eth
What candidates come to mind from each of the following buckets? 1. Funded by big tech and sustained 2. Not big tech funded, fizzled out
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Michael Pfister
@pfista
Do you think that Retro is gonna make it?
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Jun Gong
@jun
Retro reminds me of Path - beautiful app, no engagement hacking, just share “passive” updates with your friends. But interesting thing is, most my friends were on Path but only few using Retro… or maybe I need to find a new friend group 🥹
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Michael Pfister
@pfista
It seems like most of these intimate social apps have all failed. Maybe the attention seeking and engagement baiting from all the big social networks has to do with it?
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Status seeking monkeys :)
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Michael Pfister
@pfista
What’s the likelihood an intimate/ semi private social network app like Retro, BeReal, Path, etc actually catches on and sticks for good? It seems like most have been fads. If human status seeking isn’t fulfilled, and these also need to charge subscriptions, seems very difficult How could they succeed?
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Adam
@adam-
The aspect thats often overlooked is modularity. Generally these social apps are built within a confined framework that its users either play within or grow out of. If the end user has the ability to modify their experience in a plug & play like manor, it increases the stickiness. i.e: Telegram
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