CRAZY STARTING Of POPULAR WEBSITES AND APPLICATIONS


CRAZY STARTING

Of

POPULAR WEBSITES AND APPLICATIONS

 

 


YOUTUBE – Was a Dating App


 This has emerged in a humble garage in Silicon Valley where 3 PayPal employs - Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and jawed Karim. all in their 20s we’re kicking around ideas for a new business, what they came up with is a simple make it easy to share personal video with friends. In May of 2005 when they launched the site, they weren’t really sure if that was going to work the lofty goals, back then it was just to try to create a solution to more of a technical problem about how to make it possible to share videos online. But months in the site, it had zero traffic so they repositioned themselves as a dating site. They created posts on Craigslist asking attractive females to upload videos of themselves to YouTube in exchange of an $100 reward. Difficulty in finding sufficient dating videos led to a change in the plans, they decided to accept uploads of any type of video.

 

FACEBOOK - Was Facemash



Its journey started with a hobby. While Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard, He built a website (Face mash) as a hobby.  It allowed his classmates to rate students as attractive or not. i.e. allowed users to objectify and judge fellow students by comparing their face photos and selecting who they felt as “hotter”. While Zuckerberg was sued by the Harvard administration and bleakly escaped the punishment from the college for his actions, “Face mash” provided the base and framework for what was to become Facebook.

 

WHATSAPP – Was just for Status




In 2009,Jan Koum and Brian Acton founded Whatsapp. They are former employees of Yahoo!. Later they applied for jobs at Facebook but they got rejected. In January 2009, Jaun kom bought an iPhone and understood the potential of the app store which was just a few months old at that time. He wanted to develop an app that would display statuses next to the individual names of the users. The application was named as ‘WhatsApp’ as it felt more like “what’s up” which matched with the idea of statuses.

 

INSTAGRAM – Was Burbn


Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger developed Instagram in the state of San Francisco. He created it as a prototype app with an idea, and he originally called it Burbn. In this app, you could check in any place and share its photos and if you go back to that place again, you can gather friends there. Due to its complex interface, it failed. Later they shifted their focus solely on communication through images. They removed out all the features from the application except uploading photos, liking, and commenting. It was later renamed as Instagram which sounded familiar to the fact that users were sending a type of instant telegram.

 

TWITTER – Was a SMS based service



In late February 2006 Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass first discussed the idea of using text messages to share statuses. Before smartphones, Twitter was basically an SMS service, i.e. When Twitter was launched it was an SMS based platform. This means that Twitter was a site that could be updated through SMS. Every tweet from users you followed was sent to you as a text message, but due to this SMS bills were too high so later it was changed to web-based service.



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