I did wonder how well it would travel, whether or not people from outside the UK stuck notices on lampposts, if they called them lampposts etc.
I haven't really discovered that many connections between start up names and their purpose.
Maybe it could have been called cafecorkboard.com like the other post here, or telephonepolenotes.com
Maybe it's an easier correlation to someone in the UK?
I would be interested to hear more of your takeaways, like what you would do differently and if you think you do have a shot at going against those well-funded giants.
I did always view the idea as quite risky and I probably wouldn't have gone for it as a "pure startup". In this case I felt it was ok to do it as it could bump start my web dev business.
Good luck with your venture. I don't think being in Huddersfield is ultimately the reason why people haven't taken to LampNote. It was just difficult to get any local hype initially, and that certainly slowed me down
You are asking the author to assume that apps that ask for broad permissions are trustworthy. There have been far too many counterexamples for that position to be tenable.
To some extent the social space is riddled with a lack of ethics, mainly because it's effective and users are fickle. But there are a lot of other spaces where you don't have to make such tradeoffs and can still build a business. Maybe those would be a better fit for how you want to run your company?
Unfortunately, ethics kind of go out the door when you've got major investors that you want to provide a positive return to. Imagine the pressure for Circle to provide a return, and then imagine whether you'd even want to have that kind of pressure on you every day (and they've been around for a while and aren't huge yet, so I'm guessing it's by no means an easy ride for them either).
The story/plot/characters are meh, but I give it 5 stars for provoking thoughts about hyper-connectedness, net neutrality, surveillance, over-sharing on social networks, the ubiquity of technology, etc.
