Beeper Mini - iMessage client for Android

Hello Product Hunt! I’ve been working on Beeper for 3 years now. Previously, I was a partner at YC and WAY before that I started a smartwatch company called Pebble. Today, we’re excited to announce Beeper Mini. It’s our beautiful new Android app built specifically to send and receive blue bubble messages to friends with iPhones. Beeper Mini has three major new features compared to our first generation Beeper app: - Send and receive iMessages to your phone number, not only an email address. - Beautiful new design, blazing fast speed. - Full end-to-end encryption. - Standalone Android app - no desktop/laptop required. Available to download today, no waitlist. Get it on the Play store https://play.google.com/store/ap... try it out for yourself! As soon as you install Beeper Mini, your Android phone number will be blue instead of green when your iPhone friends text you. It’s easy to join iPhone-only group chats, since people can add your phone number instead of your email address. All chat features like typing status, read receipts, full resolution images/video, emoji reactions, voice messages, editing/unsending etc are supported. Beeper Mini is free to try for 7 days. After that, we charge $1.99 per month. Our business model is simple - we build a great app and earn money from those who find value in it. We feel that this business model aligns our success with your best interests. No ads. Complete data security and privacy. If you’re interested in learning more about how Beeper works, check out our announcement post https://blog.beeper.com/p/introd..., and How Beeper Mini works https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-be....

Apple has a cultural moat with the blue bubble. I’m curious to see who Beeper Mini appeals to most (kids, professionals, etc).

amazing! Feedback: the Google play install link in Eric's comment doesn't work for me, takes me to Google Play app and says something went wrong

This is great news, congrats on the launch team 🚀 Beeper idea is similar to creating portals between two realms, it is highly technical and more challenging than it seems. Good luck with finding the niche that it deserves.

Pretty cool. Nothing should have partnered with Beeper when they tried to implement this 2 weeks ago. Now they have "nothing" 😏

So cool! This is gonna make people so happy! Also great to see the product progress!

simple, solve a recurring problem for many people, something people want and need, honest business model. congrats!

Awesome. Congratulations on this one

Amazing that you made this! What feedback did you get from the press so far?

iMessage is a great MOAT for Apple and for year they've protected it as much as possible and recent RCS integration announcement is a surprise. $1.99 is a great deal for people who don't want to move to iPhone or use Android but have to due to iMessage. Will test it out