Color had 5 photos posted at WWDC this morning

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2625014

by discordance • 15 years ago

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We were in line with thousands of active iPhone users this morning for WWDC and Color had 5 photos posted in the vicinity of the Moscone.

Is this what 41M in Series A is worth?

...pop.

mikl2• 15 years ago

A tragic waste. I could do a lot of cool stuff with $41M.

sawyer• 15 years ago

The question is; why can't/aren't they? What are they using the money for?

bradendouglass• 15 years ago

MVP out the door and in the hands of us early adopty-type folks and then work to make a much "better" (whatever this means in your mind) product? It's what I would do.

zbanks• 15 years ago

If you really think you can: pitch. Don't just complain that other people are getting the money.

jhugg• 15 years ago

Maybe the point was that there are a lot cooler ways to piss away 41m than taking 5 photos at WWDC. Perhaps few of them would sound interesting to a VC though.

mikl2• 15 years ago

I'd much rather bootstrap than take VC money – but that’s beside the point.

If Color ends up burning through $41M doing another failed social service (which seems likely), no one wins, and stories like these cast doubt on the whole startup economy.

ry0ohki• 15 years ago

Are they officially marketing it yet? The only reason I've even heard about it was the funding.

cmgarcia• 15 years ago

Eh, I don't think _how_ they're getting the word out is as important as the word _is_ out, and that instance at WWDC is a bit scary.

pohl• 15 years ago

I'm sitting inside in line right now. What is Color? I'll check it out.

krisrak• 15 years ago

Compare that to instagram, 1000s of pics posted already: http://www.gramfeed.com/instagram/tags/wwdc?view=grid

vladiim• 15 years ago

It's not a nail int the coffin by any means but you would think it would make strategic sense for them to be making a concerted effort to get people using their service at a conference like WWDC ala Twitter/Foursquare... big missed opportunity to get influential people using their service.

Color had 5 photos posted at WWDC this morning

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