I'd be curious to know how many "slapped it together in 3 weeks" products end up thriving. My experience has been that any time I've thought of something that could be done that readily, I've eventually found someone else that already tried it (usually unsuccessfully). The successes I've had have come from long, hard slogs. May MeetButter meet better fortune.

Hey, Adam from MeetButter (the OP) here!

I don't believe you can slap together something in 3 weeks and call it a day.

We did it to gather market sentiment and feedback for an idea, any signals or signs to show that we were in the right direction.

Your MVP is the start of a conversation with your users / target market. Reiteration and pivoting your initial MVP based on user feedback will slowly inch you towards product-market fit. That is the long, hard slog.

In regards to building low-hanging fruits (hackathon timeframe ideas), some low-hanging fruits have deeper roots. You might find deeper problems that give you better insights on how to build something that people really want.

I'm glad to see people building for this audience. I have to say I'd be a little reluctant to gift this to someone for fear of offending them. That said, it seems like it would be a great addition to a doctor's available interventions or a workplace wellness program.

Thanks for the feedback! We’ve been surprised by the number of users who have told us they couldn’t relate to other exercise programs. You bring up a great point about potentially offending -- we feel it comes down to how close you are with the person and if they know you’re coming from a good place. We just added a 30-day guarantee to the site as well in case they don't end up liking it!

Is email actually an urgent problem for people? Most of my personal communication is outside of email these days. In fact, I have gmail up for texting more than sending emails. Unsubscribing from commercial email generally works fine. My inbox feels very much under control. Maybe I am just not important enough for an Imbox.

Yeah almost all my notifications come through apps. I get about five To twenty emails a day and just action them when they come in. I don’t need to ‘manage’ an inbox.

Or better yet take the family photo sharing out of Facebook. I don't consider it a safe place for that. I just use Facebook for groups and events now. Family stuff goes through vzg.me or shared albums. But I agree within Facebook it would be cool to have them classify post types and let you filter: Family, Flamewar, Humblebrag, Meta

Oooh, vzg.me looks promising, thanks for the tip. (Also got a tip about gath.io on HN a while ago, which has worked pretty well for a couple smallish, informal events I've hosted.)

It's hard to imagine why the board thought that was a good idea. They should've bought Twitch or something Twitch-like that could be more easily molded to be "on brand".

I understand why they saw fit, if you don’t look at their media tab, a lot of influential content creators on Twitter are also Disney fans.

If you do look at their media tab, the story changes completely, but if you don’t, the statistics solo should look beautiful.

Congrats! Would love to hear more about how you acquired your earliest customers and what growth channels have worked best for you.

This seems like the personality you have to have to want to work at Facebook. Money uber alles.

"By sitting here, you accept the Terms of Deuce."

"Your solutions are not any worse than the ones on the internet."

Sorry, I just don't agree with this. Of course you need to vet the solutions you find online, but chances are you will find solutions that have already worked through bugs and edge cases you would only learn the hard way if you went forward naively.

This novel completely changed my perception of time. Very much worth the effort.