RoamingScott wrote:
It’s tiresome that every single thing he posts gets a thread made about it. I guess his gen z marketing team is doing something right.
This app will follow Vero, Glass, Foto, et al into obscurity shortly after launch. No one is paying for premium services like this.
Why so bitter. And I don't see threads about his every little video. This, after all is a new app.
I will agree that Vero, Glass, Foto, et al do all suffer from the same issues that this one would likely be. Either they will have to start charging people for it or they have to start advertising. At some point they will need to recoup their investment money and pay for the ongoing infrsatructure bills, which will be significant for 50MB/image storage+downloads for thousands of people.
Regardless, maybe they can find a way. You say that it is all about video. To be honest I do not care for video, watching 30s accelerated videos or timelapses of people doing whatever. Instagram, for me, would be a much better place, with the ads (yes they have to make money), if it didn't push random content and actually showed me a timeline of what people posted. Right now, what you see is 1/3 ads, 1/3 pushed accounts and 1/3 what you signed up to follow. The 1/3 you follow is some random algorithmic mish-mash of old vs new content, weighed this way or the other, meaning you miss out on tons that people post and get pushed certain accounts all the time. I used to spend a good 1-2 hours a day on the gram, today, maybe 2 mins and then I get bored. I cannot stand the idea of TikTok. It is literally like watching Candid Camera, only here those producing the clips are the ones in the clips.
I'd have no problem if IG was 50% ads and 50% a timeline view of what I wanted to follow. Or maybe I could have some option to do that. But instagram's revenue model is both on ads and money from biz accounts (which they have to push), hence they have to do it like that. You have to ask yourself though what type of place is one where 1/3 of your time is spent on content that is relevant to you.
Maybe Irys can make money from ads and keep the rest as timeline. Maybe it can have a paid peer too. Who knows. Anyway, I understand that you try to make some money and get some freebies out of Instagram and YT and lots of people do that and make a living out of it. That's fine. It is fine that FM is another content channel for your business. That's fine too. Let's not assume that Schaller and the rest are after just making money from this endeavour though.
Or maybe in 2 years you can have the "I told you so" moment!
RoamingScott wrote:
It’s tiresome that every single thing he posts gets a thread made about it. I guess his gen z marketing team is doing something right.
This app will follow Vero, Glass, Foto, et al into obscurity shortly after launch. No one is paying for premium services like this.
Why so bitter. And I don't see threads about his every little video. This, after all is a new app.
I will agree that Vero, Glass, Foto, et al do all suffer from the same issues that this one would likely be. Either they will have to start charging people for it or they have to start advertising. At some point they will need to recoup their investment money and pay for the ongoing infrsatructure bills, which will be significant for 50MB/image storage+downloads for thousands of people.
Regardless, maybe they can find a way. You say that it is all about video. To be honest I do not care for video, watching 30s accelerated videos or timelapses of people doing whatever. Instagram, for me, would be a much better place, with the ads (yes they have to make money), if it didn't push random content and actually showed me a timeline of what people posted. Right now, what you see is 1/3 ads, 1/3 pushed accounts and 1/3 what you signed up to follow. The 1/3 you follow is some random algorithmic mish-mash of old vs new content, weighed this way or the other, meaning you miss out on tons that people post and get pushed certain accounts all the time. I used to spend a good 1-2 hours a day on the gram, today, maybe 2 mins and then I get bored. I cannot stand the idea of TikTok. It is literally like watching Candid Camera, only here those producing the clips are the ones in the clips.
I'd have no problem if IG was 50% ads and 50% a timeline view of what I wanted to follow. Or maybe I could have some option to do that. But instagram's revenue model is both on ads and money from biz accounts (which they have to push), hence they have to do it like that. You have to ask yourself though what type of place is one where 1/3 of your time is spent on content that is relevant to you.
Maybe Irys can make money from ads and keep the rest as timeline. Maybe it can have a paid peer too. Who knows. Anyway, I understand that you try to make some money and get some freebies out of Instagram and YT and lots of people do that and make a living out of it. That's fine. It is fine that FM is another content channel for your business. That's fine too.
Or maybe in 2 years you can have the "I told you so" moment!
Jul 03, 2025 at 02:42 AM
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