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I think most of us would love to give feedback, but at first glance it seems requires all the "friends" to use the same paid app is not something easy to tag along.

Besides, I am using Android now ;-) so...

Just a side note, for solutions that needs social networking to work, it would be extremely hard to charge people up front. You gonna have to give it away for free (first) to earn some viral effects to kick in.



This is a good point and I see the turn off of "pay for this and hope your friends will too." This is the sort of feedback I was looking for - would someone buy this then ask their friends to do the same or is that too much to ask?


I don't think so. If I tell my friends "hey this app is cool, we should all buy it" I think that could work. It's only $2, you spend way more than that doing most anything with friends anyway.


Without first trying an app I wouldn't recommend to my friends. However I couldn't properly evaluate this app without my friends also trying.

If all have to buy a copy, the decision to buy would become a collective one which the chance of buying this app would be even lower.

Further, as this is the first app by the author, there is no track record as a reference.

Hope you understand my reasoning for why social apps should be free at least at the beginning.




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