The document discusses the ideas that inspired famous social media apps such as Instagram, Snapchat, Dropbox, WhatsApp, and YouTube. It provides details on when each app was launched, its current number of users, and founders. The key ideas that inspired each app were: Instagram was created as a dedicated photo app; Snapchat's disappearing messages; Dropbox addressed the founder forgetting his USB drive; WhatsApp added messaging to a status broadcasting app; and YouTube was made to easily share videos after difficulties doing so.

1. IDEAS THAT INSPIRED FAMOUS
SOCIAL MEDIA APPS
FARHAN HUSSAIN

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“Social Media is an online platform to help
promote yourself to a wider audience”

3. We all know how Facebook
started, right?
( we all watched the movie The Social Network)
But the ideas behind some of the most
successful apps we all use are still unknown.

4. Daily Active Users 75M
Worth $35 Billion
#2 Most Popular social app
after Instagram & Facebook
Launched: October 2010
Active Users Monthly: 300M
13% Internet Users Use it
www.expandedramblings.com

5. IDEA THAT INSPIRED INSTAGRAM
Instagram is a fun and quirky way to share your life with friends through
a series of pictures. Snap a photo with your mobile phone, then choose
a filter to transform the image into a memory to keep around forever.
Kevyn Systrom and Mike Krieger Originally started a check-in app called
Burbn
They later pivoted to the photo app because there was no single
dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.
www.expandedramblings.com

7. Launched: September 2011
Active Users Monthly: 100M
70% Women Users
400M Snaps Per Day
Worth $860 Million
#3 Most Popular social app
after Instagram & Facebook
www.expandedramblings.com

8. IDEA THAT INSPIRED SNAPCHAT
Snapchat is a text-, photo- and video-messaging app that you use to
send messages that will disappear one to ten seconds after your friend
receives them. You determine how long the recipient(s) can view the
message.
Snapchat was started by Evan Spiegel & Bob Murphy as a class project
at Stanford University.
The idea was generated from a friend of Spielberg’s who was bummed
about a photo he regretted sending
It was the second most downloaded app for iOS Users after Facebook
messenger.

10. Launched: September 2008
Over 50M Registered Users
Over 1M files saved every 3
Mins
www.expandedramblings.com
500 files saved daily
Worth $1.2B
Customers in 175 countries

11. IDEA THAT INSPIRED DROPBOX
Dropbox makes all your files available to you from any computer or
phone.
Dropbox offers 2GB of space for free, you can upgrade to a Pro account
with up to 100GB.
Drew Houston conceived the idea after repeatedly forgetting his USB
flash drive while he was a student at MIT.

13. Launched: 2009
Over 700M users
70% use it daily
On Average 1M new
Registration daily
Worth $19 Billion
#2 Most popular Social
networking app after
facebook
www.expandedramblings.com

14. IDEA THAT INSPIRED WHATSAPP
Whatsapp messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which
allows you to exchange messages/pictures/videos/audio without having to
pay for SMS via internet.
Jan Koum & Brian Acton initially developed whatsapp to broadcast your
status when people can’t get hold of you, Later they added the messaging
function which attracted over million customers.
Both the founders use to work together at YAHOO, both applied for
FACEBOOK and got rejected.
Facebook acquired whatsapp in 2014 for $19 Billion.
www.expandedramblings.com

16. Launched: 14 Feb 2005
Over 1 Bllion users
Over 1 Trillion views in 2011
4 Billion views per day
Worth Over $40 Billion
#4 Most popular app & #3
most downloaded app in
2014
www.expandedramblings.com

17. IDEA THAT INSPIRED YOUTUBE
YouTube is a website designed for sharing video. Millions of users
around the world have created accounts on the site that allow them to
upload videos that anyone can watch, and It is free.
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim,
who were all early employees of PayPal.
Founders developed the idea after they had experienced difficulty in
sharing videos that has been shot at a dinner party

19. SO
SO WHATS STOPPING YOU?
THAT’S RIGHT, NOTHING.