Vint – A new message broadcast app

[RMarcus]

I'm not terribly interested in reading what people have paid a buck to say. What would be much more interesting is an app that allowed anyone to say anything for free, and then filtered all those posts down to 20 posts for each user. So each user gets a different 20 posts, and (assuming a user posts only once a day) each user's post is seen by 20 people.

That'd be an interesting way of solving the "firehose" problem on sites like Twitter. Then, perhaps, you add on Pandora-like "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" features so that the service can pick better posts for you.

[k__]

This would solve the "firehose" problem, but it would also make the "filter bubble" problem more worse.

1. People get much crap, because it's hyped by media.

2. People get much crap, because they like it.

The first thing leads to dumb opinions to be stuffed into peoples brains and the second leads to a feedback loop, which makes the first effect even stronger.

[svillafe]

@RMarcus Thanks for your feedback, that's a very good idea, but an entirely different app. Vint tries to maximize the audience of each post by showing everyone the same 20 messages.

[chasing]

Am I to understand that this is like Twitter's Promoted Tweets without any other functionality? Because Promoted Tweets are really the best part of Twitter?

[svillafe]

No it is not. We don't allow any type of advertisements in Vint. There are 4 rules that you have to follow to publish in Vint: * No offensive content. * No adult content. * No advertisements. * English only (We are currently implementing other languages)

Thanks for your feedback.

[dror]

Promoted tweets are paid for https://business.twitter.com/en-gb/products/pricing

[gerhardi]

So how many days will it take for everyone to tell their message, if there are 20 message slots per day?

[ignavaldi]

What do you mean?

[peterhajas]

This looks like it's the same as The List Serve:

http://thelistserve.com/

[svillafe]

The difference is that in Vint you have the chance to post your message to a selected date, and you don't have to win the chance to post in a lottery. Here anyone can post.

[glenda]

Seems like the copy on your website is a bunch of hot air considering that you only show messages from people that pay to post.

[svillafe]

Hi Glenda, What do you mean when you say "the copy on your web site"?

[varungoel]

I love the idea of having a platform where I can say something and potentially be heard (twitter), but if I have to pay 0.99$ everytime I say something, I want to know how many people are going to see it..

Are you going to post how many daily active users you have on a regular interval?

[svillafe]

Yes, we are working on a daily analytics email for the poster of the message.

[svillafe]

If you have an iPhone you are in the group of people who can afford to pay a dollar. I'm sorry to hear you think it's shady, would you care to explain why?

[fiatjaf]

Ok, there is an error in this everybody-should-have-their-voice mentality.

We should be valuing what people who knows about something has to say about this subject, not what anyone willing to talk has to say about it.

How to know who knows? Well...

[svillafe]

We think that everyone has the right to speak their minds. Vint is the place to share your opinions or stories on any subject. Before Vint if you were not a massive brand or have no power, there wasn't a method to reach a wide audience.

[tomasien]

That's not what Vint appears to be to me. There's curation. Maybe there isn't but it appears that there is.

[ptr]

There's already something called Vint. https://www.joinvint.com Will be confusing.

[ignavaldi]

That app is no longer working. At least the links in their website don't