App.net needs something different
I’ve been playing around with App.net. I’m not sure how I feel about it just yet. It feels like a twitter clone and every app is basically a twitter clone. Someone needs to make something cool with App.net, a “killer app” as the tech news people like to say, to make people realize what it’s for. What that is I can’t claim to know. People will only pay $100 a year for a little while with 0 return. There needs to be something to draw people to the platform, something so cool that people will run out of invites. And then those people will discover and use the other products.
Is this obvious? Probably.