Comments on: Nameo: Single-Button Business Card Replacement For The iPhone

By: Business Card apps / iPhone « UCD, TUI, EMD and what’s the next!

Business Card apps / iPhone « UCD, TUI, EMD and what’s the next! — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:47:34 +0000

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By: Y Combinator Endorses Bump Technologies In The Quest To Destroy The Business Card | Stoth

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:32:33 +0000

[...] glad Bump, as well a few other companies like Nameo and Me2, are seriously trying to solve this problem. But frankly it’s ridiculous that phone [...]

By: Y Combinator Endorses Bump Technologies In The Quest To Destroy The Business Card | Spin Valley Post

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:30:32 +0000

[...] glad Bump, as well a few other companies like Nameo and Me2, are seriously trying to solve this problem. But frankly it’s ridiculous that phone [...]

By: ReviewIt

ReviewIt — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:40:17 +0000

I would like to see an application that can take a picture of a biz card and import the particulars into my list of contacts correctly.

This is available as a free app on the Samsung Omnia under the name “Smart Reader” and works pretty well, so why not available for the iPhone?

By: Me2: Swap Contacts On Your iPhone To The Nostalgic Squeals Of A 56k Modem « ArticleSave

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:01:31 +0000

[...] more practical than some of the other solutions we’ve seen. Apps like FriendBook and Nameo use geolocation to figure out when two nearby phohnes are attempting to send information, and then [...]

By: Me2: Swap Contacts On Your iPhone To The Nostalgic Squeals Of A 56k Modem

Me2: Swap Contacts On Your iPhone To The Nostalgic Squeals Of A 56k Modem — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:48:16 +0000

By: DenimBlog.com

DenimBlog.com — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:12:44 +0000

1. make it free.

2. get it everywhere.

3. then charge later.

By: Vincent Verweij

Vincent Verweij — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:48:56 +0000

Smart idea, Boris, I love the way how you use location unobtrusively to connect people. I bought the app right away. There’s just one problem: the chance of meeting someone else who also uses Nameo is so small, that it’s impractical to use.

Here’s my breakdown: there are 800 million people in the US and Europe. Even if you make Nameo free and it becomes the #1 download in the App Store (currently that position is held by TapTap Revenge with 2 million downloads), only 0,25% of the population has Nameo installed.

The chance of two random people meeting each other, who both have Nameo is 0,25% * 0,25% = 0,0625% (equals 1:1666)

In other words, you need to meet 1666 people, to find 1 who also has Nameo.

But it gets worse. The ratio between free apps and paid apps is 85:15 (of every 100 apps downloaded in the App Store, 15 have been paid for and 85 are free). Which means, that as long as you charge money for Nameo, the Nameo connect-ratio is maximum 1:60.000

So, even if you have the best selling app on the store, the ratio is too low to be practical. I would say: make it free and you have a chance of becoming the standard. And make sure you get it to work on Nokia, Windows Mobile and Java.

By: Does this mean the Death of Business Card Design? | Dot Design

Does this mean the Death of Business Card Design? | Dot Design — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:06:10 +0000

[...] Nameo: Single-Button Business Card Replacement For The iPhone [...]

By: JoelM

JoelM — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:18:01 +0000

Send version= $1.99, receive should be free. The Acrobat etc model.

By: Boris

Boris — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:05:39 +0000

Yep, reduced the price after reading all the feedback here. See if this is enough to win people over.

By: Oliver Clevont

Oliver Clevont — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:31:13 +0000

A: “Hey, I like your thinking. Let’s work together. Let’s swap business cards. Here, let me launch, Nameo.”
B: “OK, Let me launch it on my iPhone too. Oh, here’s a list. What was your name again?”
A: “You forgot my name. Get lost.”

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:10:15 +0000

On the UK version of the iTunes App store this app costs £0.59 (59 pence), so it looks like they reduced the cost to a dollar. Not too much then. However, it seems to miss a trick from the mobile industry, known as super-distribution. As alluded to above, you allow the app to be spread virally from one handset to another – but this is done via SMS and WAP push – something the iPhone can’t do to install apps. So to get real, massive distribution you’d need to make it free. In which case, you’d then have an interesting application for some other revenue stream like advertising or, since it’s about contacts, dating… maybe…

By: Hoba

Hoba — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:53:22 +0000

A light version for free, that would be great and surly help distribute it.

The Pro version could offer transfering contact picture, GPS location info (to answer the question: where did I meet this guy again? Oh right, it was in $city).

By: yongfook

yongfook — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:29:07 +0000

I think a good idea for the lite version would be to provide FULL functionality but limit it to say, 50 info exchanges.

That means by the time a person uses up their “trial” they will have used it enough to understand the value, so a conversion from free user to $3 paid user at that point should be pretty easy.

By: cgrassi

cgrassi — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:36:03 +0000

Very good app thanks Boris and your team. The only regret is that both has to be a nameo users in order to exchange it, so it would be nice at least the the sender should have nameo installed and the receiver could drop it without to be a nameo user.
I don’t Know if possible, but this schema will spread your application as standard iPhone app.

sender—has to be instalaled nameo
receveir—no nameo (then if he want to spread it he has to be nameo as well).

Is that possible? this will solve the nitial barrier to have both have to be installaed. BTW great application, keep it going!
Chris

By: Badge intelligenti e business card elettroniche | Giovy's Blog

Badge intelligenti e business card elettroniche | Giovy's Blog — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:15:14 +0000

[...] Leggo stamattina su Techcrunch di un software per iPhone che, molto più banalmente, permette di scambiarsi una business card elettronica quando ci si trova vicini. Nameo utilizza la connessione ad Internet, l’ora della richiesta e “qualcos’altro” (probabilmente anche la posizione GPS, ma non è fondamentale nè obbligatoria, dal momento che funziona anche sugli iPhone senza GPS) per connettere le due persone, che non dovranno far altro che stare vicine e premere entrambe il pulsante “Connect” presente nell’applicazione. A differenza di E, Nameo non crea relazioni e connessioni sui social network, ma scambia solo dati come nome, email e numero di telefono (che poi potranno essere aggiunti in rubrica). Svantaggio: è solo per iPhone (anche se gli sviluppatori stanno già lavorando al porting su altre piattaforme). [...]

By: Boris

Boris — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:53:56 +0000

Well, no single click there. You will have to come up with an unique code and exchange that, type it in and THEN you are connected.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:38:20 +0000

check out icard on itunes. It works the same, but for free! (http://www.icard-app.com)

By: Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:35:04 +0000

The problem with the $3 price point is what’s called boiling the ocean. It’s only useful is most people have it. I’d happily pay $3 if everyone had it, but I know that many people aren’t going to buy it except the real networking types like David Petherick, so it won’t become ubiquitous. It’s like me asking someone, I want to give you my contact info, if you go to the App Store and pay $3, it’ll be more convenient. I can already hear the answer: “How is that convenient?”

Another idea would be to make it free or at least only $1 [I think that's the price point where you don't really have to think about buying something] until you reach critical mass and then start charging $3 or at that point you might even be able to charge $5.

In the meantime, I won’t be buying it until I find someone else who has it or until it becomes $1. This is not because I’m cheap, but because I don’t see its value for me at the moment.

By: David Petherick

David Petherick — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:10:33 +0000

Nice demo, too! QED.

By: David Petherick

David Petherick — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:59:46 +0000

Good points – and sending a text and giving you guys some cash is a sound model, but you miss the proximity alert advantages – but this is the killer for me (from your FAQ):

“At this time, rmbrME doesn’t work when you travel abroad, but we’re working on ways to let you roam!”

Abroad meaning outside the US. You are still hampered by the 20th century shackles of Telecom carriers. Sorry, FAIL. I’m a global citizen.

By: Virtual Business—Cards? « Teeterrl’s Weblog

Virtual Business—Cards? « Teeterrl’s Weblog — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:37:48 +0000

[...] allows users to hold two iPhone’s together, shake them, and virtually exchange information. This article tells more information about this application. I think it is a really cool and handy device. I am definately downloading it to my [...]

By: Visitenkarten per iPhone austauschen | Venture Cashcow Paddock: Startups

Visitenkarten per iPhone austauschen | Venture Cashcow Paddock: Startups — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:28:32 +0000

[...] heißt die App, die Meganova herausgebracht hat, über die ich garade bei TechCrunch gelesen hab. Man sie sich für occasionelle 2,99 $ im App Store holen und dann endlich [...]

By: Doug Klein

Doug Klein — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:50:40 +0000

Wow, just like 1997 and beaming from the Palm Pilot. Didn’t work then, won’t work now. Even 10m iPhones doesn’t make a ubiquitous system.