Pinterest to price IPO below last valuation
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This is increasingly what passes for a billion dollar company in SV today. Aggregating other peoples stuff and putting yourself in the middle to skim a bit off the top.
- Using Google Images search for: fun crafts.
- Results loaded with Pinterest hosted images.
- Visit any of those Pinterest hosted image pages
- The page on Pinterest may not include the image you are looking for (anymore)
- Or the Pinterest page may be an intermediary page that links to some other external website with the original image (Google doesn't give the original website the traffic)
- After 5 seconds you start getting prompts to create a Pinterest account
They are basically pissing off a huge chunk of people (anyone who searches for images on Google) for their own benefit.
This shouldn't be considered acceptable. I am not sure why anyone is defending that nasty company. You usually wouldn't defend someone in the physical world who does something similar (simple example: littering), why should it be considered OK just because it's on the Internet?
seriously I'm googling common items surrounding me and not getting ruined by Pinterest results. I even searched "wedding ring" (a common Pinterest topic) and got like 2 Pinterest results among my many non-Pinterest results.
Sites like keyword-suggestions and such? I can't think of anymore off the top of my head, but they exist and they suck.
If you mind pinterest in your google image results, add "-pinterest".
And adding -pinterest is like requiring everyone to pull down their window shade each time they drive down that street.
What exactly is Pinterest’s “product”? Shareable mood boards? They have been around for the majority of this decade and still do not have a consistent way of identifying products in pictures and giving the user the option to buy it directly from Pinterest.
As it stands, it’s still a glorified vision board, but with the industrial-scale detritus of low-resolution thumbnails across all image search engines.
I used that for w3schools before.
Pinterest's S-1 filing[0] on March 22 2019 says their MAU (monthly active users) is ~265 million. It also says the WAU (weekly active users) is 57% of MAU so ~151 million Pinterest accounts log in at least once a week.
Of course, the Pinterest executives could falsify that information on the S-1 to mislead and hype up the IPO but that carries the risk of the SEC slamming them with fraud and the DOJ pursuing criminal charges.
[0] page 67 for user metrics: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1506293/000119312519...
Can you clarify what you mean by this stat? Surely not 83% of US women aged 24-54 use Pinterest?
Perhaps the numbers mentioned initially refer to everyone who happens to sometimes end up on Pinterest by clicking on an image on Google Image Search?
I'm pretty sure Google Image Search is indeed a major contributor.
250 million people use Pinterest every month. That's (approximately, though lower than) the same ballpark as Snapchat and Twitter.
I assume you are capable of Googling their monthly user numbers, just like I did. So I assume your post is just virtue signalling and not actually asking in the spirit of trying to understand others, since it is obvious that yes, people do use Pinterest.
I'm Hispanic and have only met a single Hispanic girl who uses Pinterest, and they're pretty young. The 83% number seems wild to me.
I personally know people who were using Pinterest back in 2015-2016 but have since then shifted to Instagram.
(I don't use it directly; I don't use anything that would be called a "social network" unless you count HN and "reddit, but solely a custom set of non-default subreddits" social networks.)
There seems to be a cognitive gap here: on one hand acknowledging these widespread comments from folks with no use for these services, and then insistence that everybody uses them. At the risk of repeating myself, its trivially easy to see the point of view that they're not useful to a large portion of humanity. The irony is thick.
What difference does it make to me? Nothing, except pointing out contradiction. A hobby of mine.
I'm trying to revamp things on the Evernote side but in a different way.
We're making good progress and have a GREAT hacker user base but working to take it to the masses.
The next goal is to launch it on product hunt in 1-2 weeks.
We're also adding sharing and improving our web and mobile apps which is super important to getting adoption.
It's also Open Source and we're going to raise money soon with a 'kickstarter' style campaign to ask the community to fund continued development.
I want to build a platform that respect user rights and isn't trying to lock up the users data in a proprietary platform.
The reason it's called "Polar" is that it's designed to 'freeze' your knowledge in a safe place.
Safe being that it's Open Source and based on web standards.
I'm going to have it based on a .org style non-profit sort of like Wikimedia / Wordpress.org but also a for-profit company which has commitments to the non-profit which funds it in perpetuity.