i want a billion dollars
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
have you considered making an 'app'
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
brb making an app
wasn't there another identical thing called hipstamatic?
hipstamatic started out as just a camera filter app. they added on social stuff later after instagram took off.
or what max and joe said.
― dmr, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
if i had one the mega millions i would've bought scoopsnoodle for $1 million
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
won*
so they paid like 35 bucks per user
still smh
― the late great, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
no wonder my kids don't want to study math, obviously careers are for fools, i should be sitting around brainstorming the next killer social media platform
― the late great, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
number of instagram users should be getting a big bump up now that they have it for android too, the fact that they have as many users as they do and it was iphone only until last week is kinda crazy
― dmr, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
they paid $1 per photograph too
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
its hilarious b/c its so overvalued, but also because like "one billion" is such a funny number
~1million new instagram users is the first 24 hours of andriod
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
and only $55 million per filter
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
so really this is just fb being really, really, really risk averse w/r/t competition
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
hipstamatic could integrate a lot of products (books, prints, postcards) relatively easily. God knows if they'd actually make any money off of them, though.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
I've met so many people in the past couple years who just want collab on apps
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
er, Instagram not hipstamatic. (but them too)
collapps
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
a billion chinese, mark
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
hipstamatic's problem is that it's called hipstamatic
I dunno, everything has a stupid name these days
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
did I post about how I met one dude who wanted to create some kind of app where you could trade stocks within some graphic framework that had lasers and explosions, like you are in some sort of virtual high octane vid game action movie etrade world or something
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
he was 100% serious too
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
― the late great, Monday, April 9, 2012 2:37 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i wonder if part of facebooks thinking is theyre abt to go public and theyll be getting more than $35 per user so they could actually make money off the deal as soon as they ipo
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds kinda fun xp
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
I've not read anything about this being Internet Bubble 2.0 only for billions more - am I just not seeing it, or is everyone just kinda looking the other way?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
challaps
― flopson, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
How about an app where you can share your challops with your friends? Call it 'challapp'.
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
instagram is also a big image service for twitter users so its a way for facebook to get some inroads to twitter
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
xp oh balls flopson got there first plz don't sue me
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
well everyone pretty clearly looked the wrong way on groupon
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
sorry already sued you plz pay 1 billion dollars
― flopson, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, April 9, 2012 2:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no this is definitely talked about in the financial press, with the same kind of hedgy language that you probably see before any bubble burts, although tbf this actually isn't really as big a bubble in terms of sheer numbers of ridiculously valued companies.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
the other guy who was trying to get me to collapps was using the "fart app" from a while ago (that got bought for like a milli) as his example over and over of what is possible, like it was the pinnacle of apps, or for some reason it was the perfect app to explain every part of his ideas w/
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
xxp Fortunately I foresaw this and invented a currency called 'snoball dollars' - current exchange rate is about a trillion snoball dollars to the US$.
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, April 9, 2012 2:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
people talk abt this all the time at least in the tech media, maybe its not as much of a mainstream story because most of these companies are still privately held where the 1st tech bubble was all in the stock market
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
hearing people who just want to develop shit for money talk irl scares the fuck out of me
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know if you can call this a bubble, there is srs, srs money in having detailed personal information on every single human in america, but there will be a limited number of winners
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
I always feel like I should ask them if they've ever asked themselves why they're alive but then again I post on the internet so who g'saf
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
I wanted to design a bar bingo app that could be tailored to fit whatever kind of bar you're at
a) I don't know how to programb) I figured it would have to be social with leaderboards and Foursquare type coupons from bars and shit, but I don't know to do itc) there are probably already 40 of these
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
hint: the public won't be one of the winners.
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
well the first internet bubble had the same qualities -- legit value underneath some of it, limited number of winners.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
also I only hang out in dive bars, so the bingo app would be limited for pretty much everything else
yeah but the original internet bubble was built on assuming things about the way people were gonna use the internet that were wayyy out of line w/ how the internet was being used at the time.
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
from what I understand (e.g. reading one article on some camera blog) the Instagram photos aren't good enough to make prints off of. they're just web quality. (might be a bandwidth thing, even at the quality they are now it takes forever to load your feed and you have to have a good connection on your phone)
Hipstamatic photos are saved at higher quality and they do offer prints
― dmr, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
i have a bunch of app ideas, feel free to PM me if u are a VC
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
― iatee, Monday, April 9, 2012 2:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah i mean big companies came out of the last bubble too, maybe its just all ~creative destruction~ & the gamification of reality
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
otm a lot of people just use it as a less annoying Plixi with square cropping
― dmr, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Why are the pictures people take worth so much to Facebook and Instagram?
I assume that this is a big part of it. In 2092, the U.S. Department of Commerce with the Bureau of Census and Online Media will release the first installment of the 2020 Tumblr and Facebook profiles.
― pplains, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Instagram makes full-resolution (for the iPhone/iPad camera and given the square crop) files. They should be good for 8x8 prints now.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
my favourite feature is when you want to watch some (dreadful pointless comedy meme) clip but you get interrupted and close the app. when you reopen you see the clip for a tantalising fraction of a second before you get scrolled to the top of your timeline, with no way of finding the clip ever again because it was from an account you don't follow.
― ledge, Monday, 20 March 2023 15:06 (one year ago) link
i just got a popup notification in an instagram group chat about an opportunity for me to start selling products. it let me know i can "share a product in the chat to start collecting orders for it."
just sharing this here as an invitation to join my new group chat on instagram, one of the fastest growing chats, and i need to tell you about some recent products that have changed my life
― z_tbd, Thursday, 27 April 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
I love how every time I post something creative, I get lots of messages from all these bots about how I should use their service to get my stuff promoted
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:27 (one year ago) link
I have no intent, nor interest, in joining Threads, but even less motivated to do so since the launch seems to have broken Instagram in the process. Within hours of the launch, 80% of the posts on my feed show up as blank grey squares, 10% show up as very blurry, the rest (sponsored ads, natch) appear just fine. Stories load about 20% of the time and almost every avatar is a blank grey circle. Good job Zuck!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 7 July 2023 16:36 (eleven months ago) link
So my feed still doesn't load and now Stories never load. Video posts load about 80% of the time, but photo posts are still a grey box. Apparently not a widespread enough issue for Meta to actually fix it, but according to Reddit and Twitter there are quite a few people dealing with the same thing. At least Twitter is still functional as it circles the drain, but I've never seen an app just completely stop doing the main thing it's intended to do (i.e. show photos) for this long before.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 14:52 (eleven months ago) link
What the heck is happening with Instagram?
I’m someone who uses the platform through a browser app on my smartphone, not through the Insta app.
And for the last couple days I just can’t find any way to post things. It’s as though that has simply been taken away for absolutely no reason.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 16 July 2023 15:13 (eleven months ago) link
Maybe make sure your software isn’t in need of an update? Usually something like that is the cause.
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Sunday, 16 July 2023 15:44 (eleven months ago) link
Evan, thanks! I’ll give that a shot.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 16 July 2023 15:54 (eleven months ago) link
when did they change the views when you click on a hashtag from 'top posts / recent posts' to 'top posts / filter' and if you click on filter it brings up a menu with 'top posts / top recent posts' options? absolute dogshit ui design. i want recent posts not top recent posts, and two buttons where one performs an action and the other one brings up a menu which only contains two options one of which is the same as the first button has real 'ui design is my passion' energy.
― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Thursday, 20 July 2023 07:25 (eleven months ago) link
I am getting ads for *ticketed* listening parties at music venues for albums like AFX SAW2 or MBV-MBV ...
I had no idea this was a thing and it makes me really grateful that I was around to see these artists live in person for less $ than these listening parties cost.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 19 April 2024 05:15 (two months ago) link