Soma - The world's fastest messenger

@patrickjbradley I'm asking myself the same question

@patrickjbradley precisely. On what grounds do they constitute being "the worlds fastest messenger"? What was measured to justify this? Seems like a pretty bold and broad statement to make. Interested to understand their approach with this.

@haidersyed seen many startups making such unqualified statements recently unfortunately. "The world's fastest X", "the best designed X", "the first X"

@_jacksmith if it's qualified and backed up, by all means do so. But like you mentioned, it's happening too often nowadays and it's very rarely the case.

@patrickjbradley I personally prefer (and recommend) people use more descriptive, non-cliche taglines. The best tagline describe what it does and inspires interest.

@tomflemming Was unaware WhatsApp left.

@tomflemming 10mm users is table stakes for a messaging app now. Phones are built for: games, messaging, photos, location. Those 4 categories explode or don't, right away (everything else languishes). Sounds like SOMA advertised 2,000 downloads in their previous messaging app (Coco) and their invite mechanics took over from there. Let's chat when those 10 million come back every day for the next 30 days.

@thetylerhayes @tomflemming experiment: can a slightly faster messaging platform overcome the network effects and moats of the messaging incumbants?

@svetlyak40wt that's fine. But some services (e.g. https://www.producthunt.com/tech... ) say "the only", when a 2 second Google search could show up other companies that do what they describe. e.g. "The only true email client for Gmail on Mac"; when mailplane, Nylas etc all exist on Mac as well.

@tomflemming Aren't all messaging apps free with IAPs?