The idea is brilliant, I can imagine this enabling localized social apps all over the world to take off. However, the demo is not very compelling. If you're trying to get companies to trust your infrastructure to build on top of, you should really consider dogfood-ing your product to completion - show how a competing social app might look like and what customizations it offers.
I can’t quite picture how this would work in practice, can anyone else? So say you’re a retailer with a commerce app. Is the idea you put a TikTok clone inside of it in the hope users sign up and use your app as a social network?<p>I get the end goal is targeting ads at your customers better and having user generated content to create ads at the same time, and that’s obviously an appealing concept to businesses, but who would actually sign up and use this as a consumer?
The webpage took approximately 30 seconds while 'loading' in times new roman. And then the interactive scrollable demo is an further-infinite load spinner. Even if I thought what they were offering was a remotely good idea, I don't think I'd buy web components from people whose website screams 'we have no idea how to build web components'.
Not sure I get the tech guts of this offering from the teaser site, but as a marketer, this is really interesting. I have zero interest in running a business account on TikTok, but this format is appealing.
This is brilliant. Good luck! I can see cooking apps, workout apps, etc. wanting to implement something like this. It all comes down to ease of development, but imo the value prop is big enough that CEOs/PMs will push for this no matter what.
That’s something that I was thinking about. The “Story” interaction model seems to be very compelling for consuming serialized information on a small screen, it’s nicer than scrolling because the content covers all of the screen all the time and gets all your attention and you can very quickly decide if you are interested or not.<p>It’s very good on mobile, so much better than scrolling since scrolling is mentally taxing due to ads and menus and constantly requiring you adjusting the position of your content.