Xobni for mobiles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=93226

by mellampudi • 19 years ago

4 13 19 years ago

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I am planning to make a software similar to the one that xobni is making, but for mobile phones. Any thoughts,suggestions?

rokhayakebe• 19 years ago

What's up there. I have a mobile app that mines your phone and sends it to the server. it is up, and runnning and I have 1 corporate client. what is a good way to contact you?

mellampudi2• 19 years ago

nice. you can mail me at mellampudi at gmail dot com

danw• 19 years ago

For myself and almost everyone I know the mobile phone is the definitive buddy list, so this is an excellent idea.

Once you've gathered information about who people contact and how often what will you do with it?

shayan2• 19 years ago

just curious, but what makes you think xobni will not be offering the feature soon, and if they will what makes you think that yours will have an advantage to theirs, knowing they are already ahead, have users, and done a good job executing it and will probably offer the services faster than you can!!!

jey• 19 years ago

You'll never start a startup with that attitude. ;-)

nextmoveone• 19 years ago

Everyone needs critics, it helps create drive. IMO.

DarrenStuart2• 19 years ago

make it web based and target all web enabled devices. At least that way your not going to limited by device memory.

mellampudi2• 19 years ago

Thanks Darren. I missed this out completely. I was only targeting smart phones. Although I would still build the software for smart phones, I think I should provide a web interface for the rest. What say?

DarrenStuart2• 19 years ago

yeah sounds like a viable plan. If you develop it using an mvc design then it should be fairly easy to make it online as well.

simianstyle• 19 years ago

i still don't really get xobni :-\

ntoshev• 19 years ago

Great idea, with one serious problem though. Xobni data are useful mostly to infer social relationships. You can get the data you need only for smartphones, which are small proportion of all phones. Social data are useful if you don't have big inherent holes in that social graph.

So you need to target smartphones and can't use the social network effect. But you can still add big value to the phone's owner.

Xobni for mobiles

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