Squirrel is a chat app from Yahoo. Organize groups and chats the way you want, so you can keep up without getting lost in the noise. Squirrel is invite only for now. Ask a friend with the app to invite you to a group!
To succeed social messaging apps needs to have the BOTH combination of both the distribution channel and be an existing destination where social interactions occurs. Case in point is Google who has time and time again tried to break into messaging and has failed several times over despite owning the most used mobile OS.
Would be hard press to see Yahoo succeed in this area with neither the distribution or access to social interactions.
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@matthewedanwoo Interestingly Facebook has succeeded in both with Messenger. :)
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@matthewedanwoo There are just so many things that current messenger dont offer. I think there is still room for others.
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@ekambos I'm not saying that there isn't space for a topic based messenger, but rather for one to succeed it needs both a distribution channel and an existing asset where social interactions are already occurring.
i.e. if we look beyond the obvious, a messaging product that is new and not Facebook / Apple is Discord who was able to leverage the social interactions that was already happening in games, which also acted as their distribution channel.
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As others have said, can't look for myself without an invite, but not sure how this is differentiated and not just another chat app in an already overwhelming sea of chat apps. Looks a lot like Slack and/or Discord.
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I'm not really sure what is unique about this product. Yahoo is way too late to the game as usual.
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So... yet another Slack & Discord clone? Why does every company on the face of the earth want to jump on this bandwagon and re-invent the wheel? Slack and Discord are already dominating, attempting to compete is just wasted effort.
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@andrewdavidj Why ? Before Slack I m sure you would have said the same. There is always room for improvements.
I also wonder, how does this differ from eg. Slack?
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Just saw this - can we have a Feature List?
It looks like Discord and/or Slack but it seems to have Privacy built in - if that is the case it would be VERY interesting because that's the reason we don't use Slack or Discord...
When you deep fry WTF, late-hype and desperation, it smells like this..
If I worked at Slack I'd sponsor a cemetery to all these apps.
I wonder what makes POs believe they can solve the same problem by repeating someone else's (already given/accepted) answer -- without not even modifying a single word.
#yanoo
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