Consumer Social

Below, co-founders Dylan Diamond and Max Baron share their biggest lessons on building a viral social consumer app, including:

1. Embracing single-player mode as a wedge for social products


2. Building a product that users feel was built just for them


3. Why it’s OK to be unscalable—you can make it scale later


4. Building a familiar product is much easier if

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Add it all up, and the social web is changing in three crucial ways: It’s going from public to private; it’s shifting from growth and engagement, which broadly involves building good products that people like, to increasing revenue no matter the tradeoff; and it’s turning into an entertainment business. It turns out there’s no money in connecting... See more