A pity about their clueless home page. Please tell me what you're going to give me in exchange for my email address.
I understand the importance to a business of reaping the email address up-front. But there needs to be a clear quid pro quo. For all I can tell from the home page, I'm signing up for Amway, and the next message I get will be from one of my dear cousins trying to shame me into buying some overpriced soap.
I hit that link before griping. [EDIT: the bulletin's root link, that is, not the deep link you provided - thanks for that.] I was that kind, at least.
It links to a blog. This margin is too small to contain my full lecture about why you do not want to introduce your product to the world via a blog, but here's the condensed version: The top of the Bulletin is an out-of-context article about Twitter integration with the Mystery Product. Then the next half-dozen entries are beautiful photos of people being hired to work on the Mystery Product. Then I got bored with scrolling and gave up.
They seem to be doing exactly what I'm trying to do. I think they lack a feature or two, but it could be on their roadmap. Thanks for telling me about this. I don't know if I should feel happy or sad. :|
You should be happy. It means your idea is somewhat validated in that someone else is willing to put money and effort into making conversation better on the internet ;)
*disclaimer: I work at Branch, and we are indeed focusing on many of the problems you raised in your original post. If you look at the @branch twitter account you'll see many more examples of branches that you'd be interested in reading.
I understand. But, I'm just a learner trying to find a pet project that I could be excited about. This was it, but knowing that there are money-backed teams somewhere in the states working on this is discouraging. I was hoping to use this opportunity to work hard and learn async web programming, say node.js/socket.io or maybe meteor.
If I would have been an entrepreneur, I would have hit you guys head-on with a better implementation. ;) :P
Anyway, all the best guys. I did shoot you a mail, and am also waiting for an invite at the least, if possible. :)
