> Let's see what you're done....It may seem like just another dumb app to a lot of people here
It is just another dumb app with horrific usability issues. The fact that Evan Spiegel got lucky enough to have this go viral doesn't make him any smarter or a better person than anyone here. It makes him lucky.
One of the things I used to do was viral branded content. We would post the same thing for days and get no traction at all, then suddenly the magic combination of the right people would share it and we would have a $20K revenue day with almost no work or advertising expenditure. I wasn't any smarter on those great days than I was on the bad days. Just luckier. This is what happened to Snapchat but on an epic scale, and it's only valuable now because they got lucky in the beginning and now there are 100M users.
It is just another dumb app with horrific usability issues. The fact that Evan Spiegel got lucky enough to have this go viral doesn't make him any smarter or a better person than anyone here. It makes him lucky.
One of the things I used to do was viral branded content. We would post the same thing for days and get no traction at all, then suddenly the magic combination of the right people would share it and we would have a $20K revenue day with almost no work or advertising expenditure. I wasn't any smarter on those great days than I was on the bad days. Just luckier. This is what happened to Snapchat but on an epic scale, and it's only valuable now because they got lucky in the beginning and now there are 100M users.