orb_yt
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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
There's a lot of discussion here about hype, but I think many are overlooking exactly why expectations were so high.
Downloads of new mobile applications have been decreasing in growth steadily for years now[0]. Instead, user's spend more time inside their existing applications, particularly messenger applications. Take a look at just a few of their user bases:
- Facebook Messenger - 1.2B+ [1]
- Whatsapp - 1B+ [2]
- Kik - 300m [3]
Add to this the fact that Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Slack and others, with a combined market cap in the trillions, were simultaneously contributing to the support of chatbots in one way or another.
It's a classic rendition of the Hype Cycle[4]. We're probably somewhere in the "Trough of Disillusionment", but give it a few years and we'll get to the "Plateau of Productivity", and chatbots will probably make their way to a more useful purpose.
[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/29/forget-apps-now-the-bots-t... [1]: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/12/messenger/ [2]: https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/1/10889534/whats-app-1-billi... [3]: https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/11/kik-already-has-over-6000-... [4]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle#/media/File:Gartner...
Comment · 8 years ago
Glass wasn't hype by any means, it just didn't take hold in the consumer market (which, who's to say Google didn't predicate that). It's been in use by massive enterprises for years now, from Boeing to GE to large healthcare organizations.
Comment · 8 years ago
Was this on freenode? What channel?
Comment · 8 years ago
Definitely read that as Twitch.tv.
Oh the ideas...
Comment · 8 years ago
> The phone/call permissions, especially for Android, were needed for any app that wants to suspend when a call comes in.
No they weren't
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on the current state of healthcare software.
Comment · 8 years ago
I think it's a pretty well known fact that YC tends to invest in companies that have the opportunity to be billion dollar ventures.
> What you're doing right now isn't necessarily the thing you end up doing in the long term.
What sort of opportunities do you think a company like Buglife could focus on?
Comment · 8 years ago
I love Crashlytics, it was a great success and continues to be an awesome service. However, this comment highlights my question. Crashlytics was an early "first mover" in this area, has been a goto for developers for years now, and could likely be considered as a "best case" scenario for this type of software. Yet, it was acquired for far less than a billion dollars.
My original comment was in regards to the well known fact that YC tends to invest in companies that have the opportunity to be billion dollar companies. In fact, it's a known question during interviews[1].
So, my question is what do these founders say when asked this question? What possible paths are there to a billion dollars for this type of company?
Comment · 8 years ago
I'd love to hear some discussion on the following:
I really like developer focused companies like Buglife. However, what path could Buglife take to reach a $1B dollar company?
The post notes that they are currently in 300 apps. I'd assume the majority of these 300 are on a free plan. Let's assume that they hit a growth spurt and end up in 10,000 apps. Let's also assume that every one of those customers is paying for their Premium plan. That works out to a little over $2 million a month in revenue.
Not only that, but there are already very established companies in this space (Fabric/Crashlytics, Firebase, Sentry, etc.). It's also fairly trivial to switch to another provider.
How do companies like this propose they hit that $1B mark?
Comment · 8 years ago
Anyone care to guess how this is done?
The only way to open up ADB over a wireless connection is to set the device in tcpip mode on port 5555 and then connect via adb using the device's IP and the mentioned port.
However, adb is not shipped on Android devices (though adbd is). How is it that a malicious device can install an application on another device as claimed by the article?
Comment · 9 years ago
> you didn't have to ask users for permissions to access contacts, sms, SD card and other data
This isn't true. Android 6.0 introduced runtime permissions, where permissions could be granted in the context of the application. Previously, the permissions still had to be granted, but they were granted before the application was installed.
Comment · 9 years ago
> physicians hate them, and many blame them for the massive increase in physician burnout over the last few years
It's funny, I assumed the same. I then asked a few who used the product, and was surprised to hear praise for Epic. I wonder if the product has actually improved, or if users have simply conceded.
Comment · 9 years ago
Fun little note: The afterburning turbofan engines used in this aircraft are supposedly similar in performance to the P&W F119 engines used in the Raptor. The company behind the engine is/was working on a high bypass version which aims to power the Y-20 [1]
How might they turn their service into a viable business?
[0]: https://www.alphavantage.co [1]: https://iextrading.com