[mullingitover]

> however with that being said: the app is free and has no ads.... they must have some crazy ideas in stock.

Gonna go out on a limb here and predict that they'll do the old, "wait until we have a gazillion users, then start injecting ads."

[mcintyre1994]

I think they'd struggle more than some companies that have done that though - Facebook and Twitter have huge network effects which makes them super difficult to replace, Snapchat just seems so replaceable. If they annoy people in hyper local friendship groups they'll just find something else.. as long as they convince their friends to follow they lose nothing.

[angryasian]

on top of the fact ads are disposable. The user stories feature is really a way to make their ad business viable.