Are you doing anything to incentivize adoption besides feature set? I see two problems here:
-Not everyone has iPhones
-People are complacent with their current social networks, if not overwhelmed.
I don't have an iPhone, so I can't check it out but doesn't it work with any social networks users might be a member of? Just using Facebook/Twitter for member profiles and Treehouse just keeping track of who you give access to within Treehouse?
Right now it works off of your contacts in your phone, but we're adding more ways to find and invite your friends like Facebook, GMail, etc. Your close friends are most likely already in another social network, and since they're open, it should be easy to cultivate that data.
We will expand beyond iPhone to every platform as quickly as we can within reason. On that note, we're hiring! http://gotreehouse.com/jobs
One of our biggest challenges will be how to fuel adoption and overcome the initial hump. We know it will take time but we are very confident in what we're building, and we'll keep iterating on ways to make it extremely easy to get your friends involved.
Once a user has 5 of their friends active, engagement takes a big leap.
If treehouse lets you email photos to people who don't have the app installed, then it also lets you post photos to any service that accepts uploads by email.
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Are you doing anything to incentivize adoption besides feature set? I see two problems here:
-Not everyone has iPhones
-People are complacent with their current social networks, if not overwhelmed.
I don't have an iPhone, so I can't check it out but doesn't it work with any social networks users might be a member of? Just using Facebook/Twitter for member profiles and Treehouse just keeping track of who you give access to within Treehouse?
Right now it works off of your contacts in your phone, but we're adding more ways to find and invite your friends like Facebook, GMail, etc. Your close friends are most likely already in another social network, and since they're open, it should be easy to cultivate that data.
We will expand beyond iPhone to every platform as quickly as we can within reason. On that note, we're hiring! http://gotreehouse.com/jobs
One of our biggest challenges will be how to fuel adoption and overcome the initial hump. We know it will take time but we are very confident in what we're building, and we'll keep iterating on ways to make it extremely easy to get your friends involved.
Once a user has 5 of their friends active, engagement takes a big leap.
There's another article that talks more about the general space/problems here: http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/06/15/treehouse-facebook-...
If treehouse lets you email photos to people who don't have the app installed, then it also lets you post photos to any service that accepts uploads by email.