Looksy for iMessage

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Looksy lets you stream video directly inside iMessage by embedding live video chat bubbles into your iMessage chats transcripts.

Launch tags:iOS•Messaging•Streaming Services

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Raycast

How does this differ from Fam? Fam: Group video chat for iMessage https://www.producthunt.com/post...

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10yr ago

Looksy for iMessage

Maker

Hi @chrismessina yeah Fam launched a couple days after Looksy and tbh their successful launch broke my heart :( That being said I am a big believer that good markets have good competition by definition. My focus right now is on the 1-1 live video experience and I have some ideas for keeping Looksy differentiated when I roll out group video (soon)

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10yr ago

Raycast

@abcdannye got it, thanks! Good luck! 🤞🏻

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10yr ago

Looksy for iMessage

Maker

@chrismessina thanks!

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10yr ago

Hunter

Looksy is a superfast way of switching to live video from inside an iMessage chat when you are both in chat at the same time. Just send a Looksy and when the other person taps it you are connected live like FaceTime.

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10yr ago

Looksy for iMessage

Maker

Thanks for hunting Looksy Kevin!! I've been wanting to release this ever since Apple announced that iMessage extensions would have camera access at WWDC. But since they didn't say anything about microphone access I really had no idea if they would go for this at all. But, after a long review process, they said 👍 so here we are! iMessage seems like a natural fit for live video, especially when a chat becomes synchronous and talking would be easier than typing. So Looksy is really for those moments when switching to live video makes sense (and easier to do then launching a new FaceTime call). Clearly group video is the obvious next step (and apps like Houseparty show there is huge potential here) but for now Looksy was just a fun challenge that I wanted to bring to life. Happy to answer any questions here on PH!

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10yr ago

Looksy for iMessage

Maker

@shakurgree cool 🙏 let me know what you think!

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10yr ago

Looksy for iMessage

Maker

@sawarams thanks Sawaram!

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10yr ago

Looxie

Haha, this reminds me of my own app, Looxie. It is something completely different (location-based photo requests) but I remember this going through my mind: "Looksie looks good! Damn it, someone has already used the name for their app! Well, ok then, Luxie it is! But... but that has nothing to do with 'looking'. Hmm... well, OK, let's try... Looxie? Crap! Someone has already used it for their (failed) app. Let's go with Looxie and hope that there won't be any legal trouble in the future" I never thought of using "Looksy". Good job!

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10yr ago

Looksy for iMessage

Maker

@antonis_tsagari heh yeah, finding names is always hard and I actually wanted "Looky" at first but it was taken :) is your app still available? would love to check it out!

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10yr ago

Looxie

@abcdannye Sure, but for now it's Android-only: https://play.google.com/store/ap...

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10yr ago