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Thanks for the reply.

I've noticed there are three aspects in building a successful content/aggregation sites.

1. Provide value to businesses by giving exposure to their products. This is the best way to make money from the service. The aspect I like about these sites is you don't need to rely on traditional advertising.

2. Provide a motivation for users to contribute content (mainly ego and recognition). This is hard because you need lots of users for this to work. Good examples are lookbook.nu, wikipedia etc.

3. Provide a good one player experience - even if you don't have an account, it's still worth visiting. I visit sites like fffffound, designspiration, or dribbble every day - even though I don't have an account or know anyone else using the site.

Sorry, I should have made my point clearer.

What I'm saying is the price is too expensive for me to get a large sample of my social group to try it out.

This will hinder the app's growth.

It comes down to risk.

I know exactly what I'm getting for $5 worth of McDonalds. $5 for an app feels more risky because I have no idea if there will be any value.

You and I might be able to justify the price, but 99% of the people I know will not.

That means this is not a product I would be able to get most of my social group to use.

If there are hundreds of these vertically integrated stores, would a major challenge be exposure?

I've been thinking about how to bring the content of these stores together. Sites like svpply or Pinterest get close, but they don't tell the story of the brands (which is what people are really buying into).

When playing a rts game, the map is revealed once you discover it. Fog of war refers to not being able to view the game map.

I would love to pay $.99 for this, but at $5.49 it's too expensive for me recommend to all my friends.

I thought it said AskParents.com .. which could be a good idea in itself.

Wouldn't that just be #1?

That's like saying you're growing tired of twitter because all the tweets look the same. It's the content that's important.

Why? I thought it was interesting.

I agree. I was a Windows user for most of my life. Now that Apple products are better, I'll use them.

If something else comes along that's new and better, I'll use that.

Drag the Lake is a quick weekend project to store articles worth reading.

Thought someone might find it useful.

Hmm. Went to click buy but it was still $31.99.

I guess it's a hard balance between protecting kids from poor parenting and freedom for good parents like yourself.

A kid can't swallow a steak knife.

I guess you don't have kids?

Using Gmail, I could count on one hand the number of spam emails I've received in the last few years.

Ah there's a better post explaining what I mean: http://www.elezea.com/2012/07/sparrow-google-acquisition/

We are told that if you don't pay for a product than you are the product.

So when we pay for a product and then get sold (Google wouldn't have bought the team if they didn't have any customers), it does feel disappointing.

The best startup market in Australia is enterprise software (especially servicing the mining industry).

Instead of raising capital, use early customers to fund the development.

He's talking about people inside Yahoo saying no.

I'm listening to all my podcasts at 2.5x speed. That seems like the limit before it starts to sound weird.

Your brain can understand speech much faster than most people talk.

Why? As a younger(ish) citizen of HN I don't see the benefit of being anonymous.

That's a really good point. I like using email because almost every app has the ability to send to email.

My Mac is my home and work computer, so sending content there from multiple location would be handy.

I didn't think of privacy.. or other people spamming content to other peoples app.

I was thinking of it as a scratch pad for temp content rather than archiving content in Instapaper.

Yeah, if I'm the only person who uses it I'd be happy :)

Maybe it's not app vs web. It makes more sense to look at it as app experience vs traditional website experience.

Yes and no.

This is something I've been thinking about when redesigning the 99bikes.com.au ecommerce website. How to bring the app experience to the web.

I don't think apps will kill websites, but should influence the way websites work.

A great example of a app style ecommerce site is fab.com

$20 per month for just Photoshop seems like an easy sell for small businesses who would otherwise pirate a copy.

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