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Comment by wil421 | Hacker News Reader

HAHA 3.5 Billion Valuation!

Honestly I am afraid that Snapchat will suffer the same fate as MySpace or DIGG once the younger generation finds something new (look at who uses google+, no one and I am not talking about your techy friends). We can already see young teens are leaving facebook. To be honest I stopped using it once my parents and other older adults started joining and that was 2-3 years ago.

http://mashable.com/2013/08/11/teens-facebook/

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Down vote all you want. This app was first introduced to me I was told:

"You can send naughty pictures to people and they cant save them."

I'm not saying the valuation is justified but naughty pictures have proven to be a very, very profitable industry.

Agreed. But how can a company that shows pictures for seconds and deletes them make money? And only have one use case or feature?

Off the top of my head? Allow people to charge for subscriptions to their feeds and take a cut. People follow you, you make naughty pics and send them out, people see them. There's lots of ways for the leader to play with the timing and types of photos too. It makes the user's feel a connection since it's not publicly available, have private ones, etc.

Kind of like a paid /r/gonewild. Hmmm there are probably a number of porn stars/models that would buy into this.

$5.00 a month to buy into this snapchat feed. We can use the reverse Apple method give 30% to the model. If you could get 100k users to follow the models that would be 350K a month/4.2 million a year. We might be on to something.

You nailed it. Private porn that is safe and secure from the internet, and your mom ever finding out. Snapchat panders to the wanton part in all of us.

Except it's not private and it's not safe, at all.

For my social milieu (early 20s SF), naughty pictures are a pretty small fraction of use.

I'd say it's more in line with "non-public twitter, with photos".

Agreed. Ever since they added the feature to send a snapchat to multiple people, it turned into a narcissistic cesspool. After a while I couldn't even tell if the snapchats I was getting were even for me or for everyone on that person's list. The new "Snapchat Stories" was the nail in the coffin that made me uninstall it.

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