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Hive — Yik Yak's new secret app, a social network for your campus
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@rrhoover if i ever had to publish an app under a pseudonym i would also use this name, but probably shorten it, because who wouldn't want to download an app by dick guy
@hfauq damn, that joke was sitting right there and i totally missed it. good job hugo
@caseynewton @rrhoover ^^This comment is literally one of the best things you've written yet in 2017 and we are all better off for it.
So my school (well my interns' school) isn't listed. So I tap the waitlist button. It says to enter my email, which I do. "We will send you an email when your school becomes available".....how?! I never told you what school I was hoping would be listed!
@jesusantvargas @school Ha that would make sense but they didn't do any .edu email validation or even ask specifically for my school email.
Am I the only one who doesn't like the word "channels" for chat rooms? Like I get it, it's a thing now... But is it the right word for what we want to accomplish?
@jasonhitchcock Yes and no... and really no.
But why teach people new terminology if you can focus their energy to learning other things? That's all...
Like if they have to map the word "channel" to "team" or "friend group" or to, in this case, "Courses" then why not just help them and label it the way you want them to use it. They'll spend less energy figuring out why to use it and more energy figuring the rest of it out.
they're clearly just beginning. Consumer apps rarely start off way better. It takes a ton of customer development and lots of iterating to figure out what people truly value in your product.
It's also quite an assumption that groupme even matters to them. Who knows what groupme users think about needing other messaging apps, or how they perceive groupme in their life?
@jasonhitchcock If GroupMe doesn't matter to them, then they would be blindly be developing an app without doing their due diligence in market research as GroupMe is their direct competition.
I concur with the iteration process, but I'd also expect an experienced product team would test their key differentiator assumptions in their MVP.
We need more school apps, something really useful. Because back in my time (3 years ago), it was difficult to ask people for their phone number just to ask them when was the next class or something else. Really interesting!
After downloading the app you have to pick a specific school, only two options as of now are Furman University and "Hive University" which i'm assuming is not a real school?😂 After deciding which school you have to sign up with your school email.
@troy_ruediger as a graduate of hive university i find your comments extremely upsetting
I wish the remaining team well in their new adventure! Looks like Slack for college 😍
At 42 School we use Slack, it works pretty well. The only thing is that we have more than 2000 people on it, then it is not possible to upgrade our team...
How is the pricing of Hive ?
Nice try! I would've do the same experiment if I were in their situation. Hope to see them taking off once more. Good luck! 🍀
Super interesting to see YikYak back in action. After some rather unsavory news coverage it's good to see them reaching back into the game.
"In the meantime, mark Yik Yak down as one more company that tried to build an anonymous social network and failed." On the contrary, Yik Yak made the only anonymous platform I'd ever use. They had a killer combo with the hyper-locality and twitter-without-handles model. Hive goes for the same market but doesn't offer much that's new or unique. No Yik Yak magic in this one.
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