Confide - Enterprise Snapchat!

I'd use this even outside of the enterprise use case. Could be a more long-form alternative to Snapchat.

I agree tiger text has done a great job for hipaa compliance for health and in finance. I think lots of opportunities in general work such as talking about private deal or a personal or employee matter where this format may be preferred me get people to type instead of phone

Thanks for all the interest and apologies for the late reply. We built Confide to allow professionals and business people to write online what they have only been willing to say offline. At a high-level, we think Confide is particularly useful for instances where you would ordinarily write "Let's take this offline, I'll call you"; "Confidential, don't forward"; or "Can I get your personal email, I don't want this on the work servers". That is, where you don't want something on the permanent, digital record and where you don't want both sender and receiver to have a copy. More specifically, we think personnel matters, deal discussions, and even personal opinions regarding controversial or sensitive business issues are relevant use cases. Private, confidential, impermanent discussions among professionals happen all the time in the offline world - through business phone calls, over coffee, at meet-ups and even in the hallways and at the water coolers. We're trying to bring this proven, offline convention online. And with the asynchronous benefit that online allows. I hope this is helpful. And I hope you'll take Confide for a spin. As importantly, I hope you'll send me feedback - good, bad or indifferent. Confide me at: jon@getconfide.com

Android friends! Confide is now on Google Play as of yesterday.

Looks like TigerText (http://www.tigertext.com). Have you played w/ it @choosenick? cc @liveink.

Any thoughts as to the use cases outside of journalism? Having a record of convos with co-workers seems pretty valuable

@AdrianGrant Government is one (see the latest scandal in NJ- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/0...). Illegal insider trading-type communication is another. These are obviously not the most kosher use cases but it is situations like these that can create the threat of subpoenas. Not sure why anyone would use this in entreprise/gov instead of email unless they were worried about such a threat. I wonder what the regulations are in different sectors around electronic communication. I believe that in some governments employees/politicians/etc. need to use government-issued devices, phone numbers and email addresses. I would imagine a part of the reason is to make their communications available. I can imagine Confide, etc. being prohibited as a result, and I doubt there's a big enough market of people willing to circumvent these rules.

tigertext is amazing, focusing on the finance / health space was clutch for them

Peek (https://useskim.com/) is another ephemeral mobile messaging app. I've used it a little but TBH, don't see value in it for myself. IMHO, too many apps are tagging on ephemerality because it's "cool" without thinking through the "why." Happy to be corrected if anyone has a different opinion.

the why is super important, also the people building these ephemerality apps should probably try living the life once in a while (that of a spy =))