Comments on “Hatch Messenger
Andreas Duess@andreasduess · CCO, Nourish Food Marketing
Interesting. We've been using Slack as a family chat tool (sue me, I'm a geek) but this look more suited to a social application.
Daniel S Cornell@dscornell · Co-founder Hatch Messenger
@andreasduess slack works well as a family tool if you have that conforming family. We are more consumer driven and the family members can effectively have unlimited teams with others that each of you are not a part of. One stop shop. Also, grandma can get her participation via email - 2 way.
Andreas Duess@andreasduess · CCO, Nourish Food Marketing
@dscornell yes - just downloaded it and will get my long suffering wife to give this a whirl :D
Daylen@askdaylen · Student and Windows Insider in Vancouver
@andreasduess I have been using @Life360 due to their cross-platform support.
Daniel S Cornell@dscornell · Co-founder Hatch Messenger
@andreasduess I am one of the folks on support, so I will hold her hand. My wife took a bit of time to dig deep, just chatting at first, now she is a power user! Web client coming soon which helps with longer form communication. Thanks.
Daniel S Cornell@dscornell · Co-founder Hatch Messenger
@askdaylen I like that too. Seems a little more focused on knowing where people are.
Andreas Duess@andreasduess · CCO, Nourish Food Marketing
@askdaylen @life360 asks for more information than I am willing to share - including fitness tracking. I realize that they need that to make the app work, but it feels too intrusive for me.
Daniel S Cornell@dscornell · Co-founder Hatch Messenger
@andreasduess it seemed good for parents watching kids.
Andreas Duess@andreasduess · CCO, Nourish Food Marketing
@dscornell For sure. But Apple has that functionality built into the OS, so I don't need to add an additional data share point with a third party. I haven't got my Android phone with me right now, but fairly certain the same applies there.
Daniel S Cornell@dscornell · Co-founder Hatch Messenger
@andreasduess my kids have iPhones, but I don't follow them geo wise. If it was a 911, I assume I could get the info. I do make them have notifications turned on for my Hatch channels. If they are too slow to respond, no allowance!
Andreas Duess@andreasduess · CCO, Nourish Food Marketing
@dscornell That's the way to do it. Friend of mine posted (on FB) a picture of a paper note from a dad to his kids, listing chores that needed doing. Underneath the list was today's wifi password, once all chores were done, tomorrow's password would be released.
Daniel S Cornell@dscornell · Co-founder Hatch Messenger
@andreasduess that's brilliant. Need a dashboard for wifi and cellular and make sure they can still call 911. It's more powerful than taking car keys. They can't uber around it. :-)