“Selina Kyle: There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.”
― Christopher Nolan , The Dark Knight Rises

"Sometimes the truth isn’t enough, sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded." - Bruce Wayne

Product Owner

Customer success

You have a decent point. The powerful people will not want apps like these to survive. Powerful people never want their backyard to look different

Operations Analytics

Jab tak mei yahan hoon aisa nahi hopayega.  
 As long as I am here, this will not happen.

Software Developer

X is an uncensored app. Don't see why gvine can't be one.

Tech lead

Grapevine is a place for free and frank exchange of views. The powers that be wont like it. Some 'plant' will post something nasty and then the journos (esp those who yell about "free speech") will...

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Grapevine is a place for free and frank exchange of views. The powers that be wont like it. Some 'plant' will post something nasty and then the journos (esp those who yell about "free speech") will want this app censored. Once there is frank feedback abt VCs, warts and all, they'll give the founder a nice exit and then shut it down.

They're gonna come for this App

Founder

They're gonna come for this App- Grapevine

How does grapevine ( this app ) generate revenue ?

Digital Accessibility Technologist

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As reports suggest that grapevine is raising money from Peak Fifteen (previously Sequoia), will they allow negative posts about their portfolio companies on the platform?

Peak Fifteen has a record of controlling the media narratives for their portfolio companies before, hope they don't kill this platform!

A thought on grapevine 💭

Grapevine feature idea: Leaderboards

Product Manager

Thoughts on the Grapevine app so far. 
Would you invest in Grapevine if you had the opportunity?
Do you think there is potential?

What do you feel about Grapevine? Is there potential to become the next big startup?

Software Engineer

Pardon me for being so naive here. I want to understand this new type of startup trend.
1. What’s the source of motivation for their employees to stick to their jobs?
2. How do apps like these think of monetizing? There is no ad, no paid feature per say.
3. Grapevine has probably built some kind of a platform. But how is this different from platforms like twitter, facebook or any other social media platform?
4. How much money do you think has been invested into building apps like this?
5. The DAU of this app based on my wild guess must be around 5K. I may be completely wrong here.
6. What according to you is the current valuation of grapevine?
7. Saumil Tripathi, the founder of grapevine is ex-google employee as per his LinkedIn profile. There is no mention of any other any other startup he owns. 
8. Grapevine has a team of 10 employees (as per Saumil’s post a few weeks back)
How do these guys make money?

I’m awestruck by the guys working in grapevine. Building an app of this quality with no monetization in sight!

Pounce on this thread with your thoughts guys!

Grapevine is a free app. How do they run their startup?

Software architect

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The number of rants I have on this platform, had they been anywhere else (social media or real life), I would have definitely lost my job, friends, and followers. 

Grateful for Grapevine 🍇

Just Grateful for this platform

Consultant

Thank God! We have Grapevine ❤️ because LinkedIn makes me 🤢🤮

Hit ❤️ if it’s true: because I got saved from a 🚩 company that got “Best Places to Work” award 💀

We have removed the article summarizing an Economic Times report about Loginext from Grapevine. This action follows a public statement by Loginext's founder, Dhruvil Sanghvi, contradicting the information in the original Economic Times article.

Key points:

1. The original report was published by Economic Times, which we had summarized on Grapevine.
2. Dhruvil Sanghvi, Loginext's founder, has stated that the information in the Economic Times report is incorrect.
3. According to Sanghvi, Loginext continues to operate normally, with all clients and employees remaining operational.

As a platform for news discussion, we aim to provide accurate information to our users. When conflicting information comes directly from a company founder, we believe it's important to acknowledge this and remove potentially inaccurate content.

Cheers!

Update: Article Removed Due to Founder's Clarification

Journalist

How does this app plan to monetize?

I have been on grapevine for some months now and this is the best community building app I have ever seen I can talk my heart out and the people here actually come out to support and share their journey and experiences as well. Hats off to the founder who has made grapevine

Love grapevine. This is the best community I have found to actually talk my heart out, it’s like grapevine and the people who are using grapevine have become my go-to people when it comes to sharing my life and career or anything.

I really liked the concept. It has best of both worlds. Easiest way to create content is audio, and consume is text.

However, I think it will suffer because it might not promote controversial stuff or negative comments.

Humans have a negativity bias. Name-calling, insults or blind hate, are things that no one likes - but also things that no one can look away from. And those engaged in it can't easily pull away. 

One of the reasons why Grapevine is so good because in an anonymous forum, people might be less likely to step in and stop negative behavior. People either promote propaganda of one company or to spread shit about other companies.


Even X is infamous for rewarding conflict. Most negative comments come from anon folks. elafda get the best engagement.  


The audio first social media app Airchat has a second order effect that people can write way more mean shit than say it aloud. Plus it's not natively anon. 

I really wish it does work, in a world where there's so much negativity, we need airchat to thrive.

Why Airchat might not work

Director product

Looks like the Grapevine is growing

Data scientist

Are there any angel investors or group of investors who invest in early stage startups? How do I learn more about it and gain experience? From where to start? Any guidance will be appreciated. 

[posting from Grapevine Web]

Angel investing/group investing in early stage startups

Cloud architect

Id love to see Grapevine create a catalogue of Grapevine approved verified anonymous accounts of detailed employee accounts of how good or terrible a company is. Think The Ken but filled with employee reports. But the style of writing leaning on the casual office gossip side. And the content saved in an archive and searchable. The biggest problem of course would be getting people to verify their identity to a Grapevine mod or writer may be tough.
Me personally, I’d love to talk to some writer about my experience at my previous businesses. So many scoops and insane stories!

(I dislike Glassdoor for the HRs infiltrating and BSing everyone)

Grapevine Verified Inside Scoops

Generally fishbowl has too many service company or consultants kinda employees. Talking about content, it is high quantity and quality is degrading.

And there are too many posts so no one read them along with that only 1-2 comments on many posts. it's content is of no use at all.

I find fishbowl useless now and would not want grapevine to evolve at all like that. 
Views??

Grapevine should not evolve like fishbowl

Mojocare fraud out

VC Analyst

Zorro rebranded to Hood but don't know anyone using it. The early days are fun because it's full of gossip but it can leave you feeling very negative after a while. Wdyt?

Will grapevipe survive?

Growth Manager

Let the shit posting begin

I saw the founders' posts about hiring for Grapevine. Did you guys raise funds? If not, how is this being funded? How do you plan to monetize? What's next for Grapevine?

How is Grapevine doing?

What do you think about this "Grapevine" platform ? Are they generating some profit? 
Or same like Koo, exist because of VC?

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