Dave Morin of Path.com on the "slow product" movement (launch.is)
Great piece on building products slowly by Dave Morin at the bottom of this url: "At Path we believe in what I call building a "slow company." Similar to the slow food movement, we believe that more Internet and technology companies should look at building long-term, sustainable, organic growth companies. Not enough entrepreneurs are focused on the long term right now. And by long term I mean, the building of the next generation of great, high quality brands. At Path we look to long term, high quality, brands like Apple, Audi, Leica, Sony, Muji, Kodak, and Porsche for inspiration."
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 38.1 ms ] threadReally? Jeez I must've been in a cave to miss this.
Two types of hype seem to exist in this industry -- hype generated from an awesome new product/service, or hype generated because some already successful people threw money at it. This happens to be the latter.
If some big names weren't attached, no one would be talking about it at all because the basic gist (at least so far) is, "It's like Twitter for photos but less powerful".
How many photo sharing apps does a world need? I'm certainly covered.
ps: not singling out Jason (I love you Jason).
That being said, in ever other industry (music, film, etc) this seems to happen as well.
I love the fact that folks are excited about the LAUNCH conference because of my work on Silicon Alley Reporter, Engadget and because i created TechCrunch50.
Keep in mind it is also a slight burden, in that folks expect your projects to boom overnight--and that's not how 99% of launches go.
folks ripped Mahalo.com apart at the start, and it's only since we hit the top 200 sites and 20M+ video views a month that we've started to get a little credit.
While they may be new as phone apps (as opposed to web apps), people have been sharing photos in a million different locations and ways for years (Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Snapfish, OFoto, MobileMe, Picasa, Email...).
As it stands right now, I can't see Path solving any problem for me that isn't more easily solved by any number of already existing and wildly more pervasive tools.
"Learning From Mistakes is Overrated
People who failed before have the same amount of success as people who have never tried at all.* Success is the experience that actually counts."
The good thing for these guys is that they've succeeded before. I don't think they will with this, but with enough connections, money, and reputation, who knows?