The majority of potential business networking users use low bandwidth feature phones which don’t support JavaScript. They have no access to LinkedIn at all.
Some users need extra security. Not just HTTPS but Tor. Think oppressive governments and companies which use proxies to sniff if their employees hunt for new jobs.
Unique Selling Points • vutuv accounts are free. Revenue is generated with ads and human resources features. • vutuv is available. LinkedIn can’t be used in most parts of the world. vutuv is part of internet.org and can cover the whole world. • vutuv is fast. 3-8 times faster than LinkedIn. • vutuv is secure. Your boss or government can’t see if you are hunting for a new job. Not just https but Tor. Bonus: We don’t store passwords. We don’t use cookies for non logged in users. • vutuv profiles have a better Google ranking Because of the side’s speed an average profile gets a better Google ranking. For many users it’s there first business networking account at all which results in unique content.
Technology Today • Phoenix Framework Runs on the Erlang-BEAM like WhatsApp. • MySQL • No JavaScript Runs on all devises! Source-Code: https://github.com/vutuv/vutuv/
Jakob Nielsen’s book „Usability Engineering“ from 1993 Delay User reaction 0 - 100 ms Instant 100 - 300 ms Feels sluggish 300 - 1000 ms Machine is working… 1 s+ Mental context switch 10 s+ I’ll come back later…
Download a 58 kB file from a US east cost server to a client in Frankfurt. Protocol: HTTP Roundtrip Time: 80 ms Zeit client server 0 ms SYN --> <-- SYN,ACK 80 ms ACK --> GET --> <-- 10 TCP Segmente (14.600 Bytes) 160 ms ACK --> <-- 20 TCP Segmente (29.200 Bytes) 240 ms ACK --> <-- 40 TCP Segmente (15.592 Bytes) 320 ms ACK --> Time to download a 58 kB file: 320 ms
What we can control: • Transfer Protocol (e.g. HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/2.0) • Compression (e.g. gzip vs. zopfli vs. brotli) • Amount of files • File size • Time the server needs to generate the HTML • Content (e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Images)
Obviously money is the biggest problem. Because we don’t use JavaScript we can’t use the classic Google Ads system to earn money. And charging for accounts is a no go either.
Potential Future Technology • Phoenix Framework Runs on the Erlang-BEAM like WhatsApp. • CouchDB Syncs over continents. Super fast anywhere. • No JavaScript Runs on all devises! • Cheap servers The world is our data center (blue dots). We are not affected by catastrophes. DNS will reroute to other continents. • Short distance to the browser This ensures the best browsing experience.