srinathrajaram

Agree that this is definitely not new. There have been few variants of this play across the US. Trio (thinktrio.com), for example have been around for quite some time. I wonder though, if the typical HN reader is a great target market for this offering.

The valuation sounds really low. Is there a reason for that?

This is available only on Android O and the adoption is not encouraging. Hopefully, P will have a much better uptake.

Let us not pretend that the price is driven by living costs. It is driven by desperate people who will work below cost to get a foot in the door.

I do not think you need to be a US citizen just because you were born there. There are countries that allow a child born in the US to acquire the citizenship of its parents.

I can understand having to pay (in any of the ways you mention) if you are going to use the product. The question is, should I have to pay to even learn about the product?

It says a lot about where we are headed that the Supreme Court had to say this.

All the talk about latency has me wondering if the work here is eventually going to push telemedicine forward. Maybe a first aid kit that contains a tele-dressing kit that can be used by a remote worker to perform minor but intricate procedures?

I think that Whatsapp does not understand how the diehard users use it.

I live in India, one of whatsapp's biggest markets. I am stunned every day by the level of penetration that whatsapp has achieved here. From people in the slums to people over 65, everyone uses whatsapp. I regularly see long-form, local language content on whatsapp. I wonder who is writing all this. It reminds me of the early email days.

Whatsapp has wasted way too much time trying to cater to the snapchat demographic. But the snapchat demographic, either has not heard of Whatsapp (average US user) or thinks whatsapp is what you use to talk to grandma (the average Indian teenager).

They announced their intent to work on digital payments a full four months after demonetization was announced in India. No release yet (8 months and counting). They have probably squandered a massive opportunity here.

To my knowledge, they do not have any presence in India, their largest market. I wonder if that would have made all the difference.

I would. But I suspect that either your premiums will be so high for the risky sites (linkedin, facebook), that I could not afford it or I would clean up.