Comments on: What Twitter Taught Me on How to Build a Web Application

By: Rishabh Mishra (possible248)

Rishabh Mishra (possible248) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:39:03 +0000

Perhaps Twitter has solved some SMS-related issue, but I haven't met any people that have found that Twitter's SMS features have solved a problem.

By: possible248

possible248 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:39:03 +0000

Perhaps Twitter has solved some SMS-related issue, but I haven’t met any people that have found that Twitter’s SMS features have solved a problem.

By: Sid Savara

Sid Savara — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:45:00 +0000

I'm not sure twitter solved a problem to begin with. It created it's own need. I agree with this:

"Create something that nobody needed before, but now that you have showed them, they want it."

If you took twitter away from me, I wouldn't realize I wanted it =). But not that it's there, I use it.

By: SidSavara

SidSavara — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:45:00 +0000

I’m not sure twitter solved a problem to begin with. It created it’s own need. I agree with this:

“Create something that nobody needed before, but now that you have showed them, they want it.”

If you took twitter away from me, I wouldn’t realize I wanted it =). But not that it’s there, I use it.

By: Rishabh Mishra (possible248)

Rishabh Mishra (possible248) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:42:58 +0000

I disagree, Twitter-like success is rare, but not random. It may take an entrepreneur a few failures to learn from his or her mistakes and create the next Twitter.

Creating an application that:
* solves a problem already neatly solved.
* can only be used for one thing.
* is completely inextensible.
* consumes more time with no additional gain.

is massively more likely to fail than an application that solves new problems, is flexible, extensible, and with the user thinking it is time-saving.

By: possible248

possible248 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:42:58 +0000

By: Paras

Paras — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:31:05 +0000

In which category will you fit my web app: http://myjugaad.in?

And, IMO getting twitter-like success is a very random thing. You need to be extremely lucky for that.

By: Paras

Paras — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:31:05 +0000

In which category will you fit my web app: http://myjugaad.in?

And, IMO getting twitter-like success is a very random thing. You need to be extremely lucky for that.