-- scenario --
I'm the founder of Needle, a social network for vinyl records lovers. In Needle users post their vinyl records and other users can Like and Comment (with @user and #tag) our vinyl records. In our case they can also listen the preview of the song in the vinyl record.
-- user case --
Today happened that a guy posted a record similar to one in my collection so I thought I wanted to tell him to listen to my record, but I had to say something like:
"hey @mrdobelina listen to Todd Terje - Ragysh in my collection, it's #awesome!"
boring. So I thought that would be cool to directly link the album with a symbol, example:
~ragysh
that would results in:
"hey @mrdobelina listen to ~ragysh it's #amazing!"
the user can now click ~ragysh to be redirected to my post.
-- conclusion --
talking generally, now is:
@user is used to mention someone #tag is used to connect arguments
~object could be used to connect other users to a specific object
-- thoughts --
What you think? What symbol would you use instead of ~ ?
We're going to add this feature in Needle soon.
-- not intended to be spammy self promotion --
Here's the video teaser - http://bit.ly/needle_teaser
you can download and try Needle at this link, it's free and feedback is very appreciated. Soon we'll officially launch
bit.ly/needle_appstore
The @mention in comments works very bad, that's why we restarted to work on them and the ~ idea came out.
