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Chat Without Internet

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Furkan Cengiz
@frkncngz · Indie Developer
@rrhoover hey there, thanks for the feedback! Yes there is that, people has to know and download it beforehand. We are thinking about this and open to any suggestions. The first couple of use cases we thought were protests, concerts (festivals especially), travelling abroad, camping, subways and post-apocalyptic stuff (just in-case) :) Also thanks for th… See more

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Furkan Cengiz
@frkncngz · Indie Developer
Hey @Virtualgoodz, thanks a lot for the feedback! Basically FireChat's Nearby feature and the protests happened here in Istanbul inspired us to create Flows. It is using the same MultipeerConnectivity framework as FireChat. The differences from FireChat are these; - Flows doesn't have any servers so there is basically no registration, data logging etc. A… See more
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
When I read, "chat with people nearby without an internet connection," I was waiting for a snarky punchline. ;) @frkncngz / @kee_ross - I can imagine the crowded concert use case but when no one knows about Flows on day 1, how do you make it valuable for people? Are there one-to-one use cases for this where internet-connected chat apps don't work? EDIT: I… See more
Chris Prescott
@cpresc · Product Lead, Arago
I like the colour signature idea *thumbs up*
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Julie Delanoy
@syswarren · Design with @wearetm 😻
Imagine mesh network meets IRC on your iPhone. Sadly, I'm all alone using it where I live right now so I'm talking to myself.
Spencer Schoeben
@netspencer · College dropout working on something new
the unique color signature is really clever!