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Comment by Geee | Hacker News Reader

Why do I have to sign up? Why is there need for a social network for this app, I just don't get it. It would have worked beautifully just as an isolated app. I actually would love to find great photos in my videos. I was really excited about the idea, but having to sign up and reading your privacy statement about getting all my video data made me delete the app.

Please someone make a copy of this without all the bullshit.

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While you make a valid point (for some people), please try to be more civil.

Remember that a real person spent time & energy working on writing and releasing this app. You likely wouldn't say your last sentence to this person in real life, so please refrain from writing it here.

for cookingrobot:

Just letting you know that I agree with this comment's point (though not its tone).

Could this be made available without all the social and sharing stuff? :) Maybe after you build your user base you can open source it? (free for people like us but not jeopardizing your competitive advantage since you already have the network)

Totally hear the sentiment in the comment. For our V1 release we wanted to have good social and community features, because that really how you win over super-users for this kind of an app.

So we wanted to make sure everyone using the app was able to get that full experience. There's lots of room for experimenting with other approaches, but so far users seem to be really like that side of the experience too.

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