Comments on: Want better, not more connections? Check out Pipe

By: Augustin Bralley

Augustin Bralley — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:07:02 +0000

Great feedback, Rafiki, thank you! We’ll be working on the UI extensively as well for our first beta rollout. I hope you’ll have another look and see if we’ve nailed it.

By: Rafiki Cai

Rafiki Cai — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:21:12 +0000

My comments are meant to be by way of encouragement and not critique.

Pipe is simple and simple can be magical. However, simple plus sharp bolsters the magic. Is there a way, via CSS or something, that the photo and lettering created on a Pipe page can be “sharp”.

Even when there are just a few elements on a page, they need to be crystal clear. Why? Feng Shui. Everything is energy. Everything has impact on the viewer/user. Blurred images and less than crystal clear lettering creates a barrier, even if subconsciously. (A clear photo will magnetize You, to want to connect with that person.) The GUI is the portal to success.

By: Justin B Newman

Justin B Newman — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:06:20 +0000

Thanks, Sina. I gave it a try. Works great. We’ll see how long I can keep it up.

By: Andrew Saada

Andrew Saada — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:30:07 +0000

The sign up was smooth and I skipped the first suggested contact (to be reminded at a future date) and went ahead and sent a message to my uncle figuring it would be a good way to spread news on such a useful tool.

I guess I’ll see what tomorrow’s inbox brings as I’m curious to know if it will pick up with the next person they had suggested or not.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:47:35 +0000

Justin

I hope Sina answered your question.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:46:45 +0000

Andrew

Looking forward to hearing your feedback.

By: Sina Khanifar

Sina Khanifar — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:37:06 +0000

We’re big fans of The Locker project (http://lockerproject.org/) and believe very strongly in data privacy. We built Pipe on top of Singly at their hackathon this weekend, and at the moment don’t store any of your data on our own servers at all (which is why you have to relogin each time you visit the site). We didn’t have time to add a privacy policy yet, but will do so soon!

By: Sina Khanifar

Sina Khanifar — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:35:20 +0000

Hi Mark – we built Pipe for a hackathon this weekend, and we’ll be working on making improvements this week. The site should work as long as you login with Linkedin, but we’ll get the other authorization methods set up as soon as possible. You’re welcome to contact me (firstname.lastname at gmail) if there’s anything I can help with.

By: Mark Peden

Mark Peden — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:54:06 +0000

The app appears to be non-functional at this point. The last post on their blog at http://blog.pipeapp.co/ suggests that they’re working on developing the app but provides no company contact information. I attempted to look them up, unsuccessfully.

By: Justin B Newman

Justin B Newman — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:59:03 +0000

I can’t avoid judging them for what they don’t have: a privacy policy. I should be able to see a privacy policy before I let them have all of my social network contacts. Do they have one after you get logged in? How are they going to use the data? Are they selling it only in aggregate? Or not selling it at all?