Poke
product on 6 shows · 4 statements across 2 episodes · said 19 times in 7 episodes since 2024
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A Product Market Fit Show 2 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1 
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2025 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
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Acharya: Poke operates via iMessage and forces users to negotiate price
“One interesting thing they've done is actually the interface is iMessage. So you're texting with it. So, you know, of course, iMessage, you're typically only texting with people. So right away, that's subliminally sort of setting you up to expect to have a hum…”
Acharya: Torturous onboarding processes generate perceived product value before utility
“So by the time you get in, even though it hasn't done anything for you except sort of tortured you, you've already got this perception of value.”
Rose: Poke's price negotiation onboarding feature generated tens of thousands of signups
“That alone, that little tiny feature is a great example of something that went, you know, kind of viral within a small subset of in, I'm sure led to tens of thousands of signups.”
Srugo: Facebook Poke clone ended up generating free publicity for Snapchat
“Facebook launches this copycat app called Poke, and it quickly, I mean, they have Billion users at this point. So it quickly goes to the top of the charts and it's a bit of a existential moment for Snapchat, but it turns out all that that did was actually make…”