Comment on Ways to Build Virality into Your ProductparentComments−GuB-427yExamples of differentiation:- Signal end-to-end encryption- Discord game integration- Slack history keeping- Skype ability to make phone calls- Snapchat self destroying picturesYou may not see any use in any of these but some people do.And some reasons why these aren't standardized:- it is hard to do without some form of centralization (ex: history keeping)- some services cost money (ex: phone calls)- some goals are contradictory (ex: end-to-end encryption and searchable histories)- owning a popular messaging network is simply too appealing−colecut7yIt's funny that you mention slack's edge as history keeping, which is a premium feature you need to pay for after a threshold... Skype and many others will always keep all of your history for free−TeMPOraL7y- some goals are contradictory (ex: end-to-end encryption and searchable histories)I still don't buy that. If you do search client-side, then history should be trivially searchable even under E2E encryption.
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Examples of differentiation:
- Signal end-to-end encryption
- Discord game integration
- Slack history keeping
- Skype ability to make phone calls
- Snapchat self destroying pictures
You may not see any use in any of these but some people do.
And some reasons why these aren't standardized:
- it is hard to do without some form of centralization (ex: history keeping)
- some services cost money (ex: phone calls)
- some goals are contradictory (ex: end-to-end encryption and searchable histories)
- owning a popular messaging network is simply too appealing
It's funny that you mention slack's edge as history keeping, which is a premium feature you need to pay for after a threshold... Skype and many others will always keep all of your history for free
I still don't buy that. If you do search client-side, then history should be trivially searchable even under E2E encryption.