A while ago, when these guys told me about their idea, I thought it was completely stupid. Another photo sharing service? But I went along with their beta and after using it for a few days with a group of friends, it started to become addictive.
I realized a couple weeks later that it was changing the way I was communicating with friends. Whenever I was doing something interesting, I'd snap a photo, add a witty title, and send it to Treehouse. Because it's a private group, it feels very different than using Twitter or Facebook. And because it requires a photo, it's a richer experience.
I'm not sure exactly what it is, but something about this app is really cool. Especially if a group of your close friends are also using it.
Mike, this is definitely true. You have to start somewhere, and we chose iPhone. You'll find Treehouse on every platform eventually, and we hope to see you there :)
Please make "eventually" mean "really soon" in the case of Android. I know it's a big time sink to develop for another platform, but I found the Android API pretty straightforward to program for. I'm really into the concept behind this app, and would love to get my friends and colleagues on board, but about half of us use Android handsets. (nb: I work for Google.)
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A while ago, when these guys told me about their idea, I thought it was completely stupid. Another photo sharing service? But I went along with their beta and after using it for a few days with a group of friends, it started to become addictive.
I realized a couple weeks later that it was changing the way I was communicating with friends. Whenever I was doing something interesting, I'd snap a photo, add a witty title, and send it to Treehouse. Because it's a private group, it feels very different than using Twitter or Facebook. And because it requires a photo, it's a richer experience.
I'm not sure exactly what it is, but something about this app is really cool. Especially if a group of your close friends are also using it.
<i>Especially if a group of your close friends are also using it.</i>
I think a lot of the value is there. Unfortunately only a small subset of my friends use iPhones. All of them use Facebook however.
Mike, this is definitely true. You have to start somewhere, and we chose iPhone. You'll find Treehouse on every platform eventually, and we hope to see you there :)
Please make "eventually" mean "really soon" in the case of Android. I know it's a big time sink to develop for another platform, but I found the Android API pretty straightforward to program for. I'm really into the concept behind this app, and would love to get my friends and colleagues on board, but about half of us use Android handsets. (nb: I work for Google.)
I wish the article talked about the business model. Does the app have a cost? Is there a recurring cost? Is it Ad based?
If its not free I could see it being hard to get friends to join and thus not be useful.
What happens when everybody you know joins Treehouse and you have as many tree buddies as facebook friends?
Then Treehouse goes from promoting private networking to the "open social graph".
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That sounds interesting. Are you still using it?