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by not_paul_graham 4477 days ago
Definitely a good "disruption" to all the noise that is broadcast on twitter + instagram by all those that you follow. I think they also nail it pretty much with their tagline: Play photo ping and stay in touch with friends

If the founders are reading this, was this the original idea ? If not, I'd love to know what did you all start with, and how you all pivoted to this particular idea? (Crunchbase says: founded in October 2012)

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I came up with an idea when I was on the top of a snowboard ramp(i was a snowboard pro), trying to capture the moment and share it with my friends over Instagram. But it felt like bragging, I didn’t want to collecting likes, comments and build my ego. Than I thought - if my friends would ask me where I am right now, I would be glad to show them and it would feel totally unintrusive!

So that was the initial idea for pull photo sharing app!

As a beta user for a year or so: it really feels good to be pinged. :)

And it's great entertainment to just browse what friends have been doing for last 24h.

+1 from me

Congrats on the traction! Quick question since I haven't downloaded the app, how would that have worked at the top of the snowboard ramp since your friends would have had to ping you right at that exact moment? Were you thinking that you would take a picture to reply with later? I'm trying to understand how the app works if 90% of the time that I might get pinged I'm not doing anything interesting (we can't all be snowboard pros ;)