Spibby intends to be a game centered around check-ins and purchases (via the Foursquare and Blippy APIs).<p>Our minimum viable product is a real-time, user-generated stream of what people are spending on / recommending. We plan to gradually integrate location and purchases into this stream.
Foursquare integration: A user will see a list of recent check-ins and be allowed to enter purchases made at these locations. Blippy integration: A user's credit card swipes will be pulled into the Spibby stream from Blippy. Points will be earned from a combination of swipes, transactions and Spibby posts (and the conversations around these posts).<p>NOTE: In its current avatar, Spibby might seem like a non-automated version of Blippy / Swipely, but that's quite intentional - we hope to integrate with these services and eventually build our game on top their APIs. The value-add around the user generated posts (that we currently allow) is the ability to discuss wishlists / cash transactions / questions before a purchase, which we think is quite significant.<p>We'd like to a) receive feedback and b) start building a community as early as we can. Spibby, right now, is extremely basic - we let you make simple posts and follow other users, but we've already seen some interesting conversations unfold between our initial users.<p>We're quite sure we're in for some really compelling feedback from the HN community.
1) We'd love to hear what you think of the concept.
2) We'd like to know if you think the path we're taking (from MVP to version 1.0) and our complete apathy towards stealth makes sense
3) We'd like your inputs on how we can make Spibby better<p>Thanks a ton in advance!
I haven't visited your website yet. I would recommend that you work on your pitch. Your first line was not compelling, doesn't explain to me why I want to use Spibby, or why the world needs it!<p>After reading the second paragraph, itjust seems like you tie Blippy/Foursquare together via api's and aggregate the data. Is there anything I'm missing?<p>Sorry if this comes off as negative, it's really meant as constructive criticism. I went to your site and I'd love to see more thought put into explaining why, as a user, I want to 'earn points' or 'recommend' on Spibby when I can do it on a ton of other sites (for exampleI'd probably use yelp right now). Some sort of analysis of what happens when the service gets huge (why is it valuable to me? Why does my contribution make a difference? What is it working towards?) could be very helpful in making people interested :)