Phone-A-Friend

Find a friend who is free to talk on your commute

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Find a friend who is free to talk on your commute

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Cool concept - great when you live in different cities from your friends. Does everyone have to download the app?

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10yr ago

Clubhouse

Maker

@alicelthwaite Nope! You can choose to have the app send them a text message for you when you're free. If they're also free, they can tap on the number in the text to connect to you (or your group call)

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10yr ago

Whiteboard.fm

@rohanseth @alicelthwaite That's super interesting. Think you should mention that feature more!

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10yr ago

Long wished someone would do this - glad to see it. Before trying it out, do users get to select who the app reaches out to? Or does it just take your whole address book? I'll be an early user if I get to select. Thanks!

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10yr ago

Phone-A-Friend

Maker

@jimt1277 Yes, you get a chance to pick who to send it to before it goes out! It even remembers your last selection to make it easy to send to the same set of people again! Thanks for trying out the app!

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10yr ago

@rohandang Awesome, thanks. Just an on-boarding comment: I'd suggest the "How does this work" swipe-screen at the beginning of onboarding rather than at the end. I'm already sold, but seems like it might boost adoption for those wondering what the app is. Cheers.

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10yr ago

Product Hunt

This sounds like a Houseparty + Unmute 2.0 mashup. Cool concept.

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10yr ago

Clubhouse

Maker

@rrhoover Thanks for featuring it! We're sort of targeting hands-free use cases like driving with it. So, on your morning or evening commute, you can just say something like "Siri, call a friend on Phone a friend", and we'll automatically connect you to the first available friend who is also free.

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10yr ago

Re:amaze

This is interesting... I wonder how people will engage with this but I think I first need to collect some more friends :) Good luck! @rohandang @rohanseth

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10yr ago

Clubhouse

Maker

@davidsfeng Thanks for trying it! You can use Phone-a-friend with people even if they aren't on the app, just select them from your contacts and they'll get a text message every time you're free.

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10yr ago

Burner

This is pretty much the problem we were working on when we ended up launching Burner. It looks well done and I will definitely give it a try. Congratulations!

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10yr ago

Clubhouse

Maker

@gregcohn Hey greg, thanks for your comment. Do you think something like this works better as an alternative to scheduling time / office hours? We've been brainstorming quite a bit about what this unlocks, would love to chat with you more since you've spent time thinking about the problem. Also, please let me know how the app worked out for you: rohanseth@cs.stanford.edu

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10yr ago

Burner

@rohanseth Happy to chat and will PM you, but to address your public question, I think scheduling and office hours models are just different planning paradigms, and that there is distinct value to the ad hoc paradigm. Office hours, for example, always seem more like a 'one-to-many' solution for someone who's high-demand/low-availability to say 'come at me', rather than the right model for peer-to-peer. One of the challenges is managing the tradeoffs between trying to have a highly brokered process (lots of context and filtering) vs a highly loose process (lots of potential for unwanted calls). Looking forward to seeing how you work through those and to talking.

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10yr ago

Very useful looking app I use it for some days but had little problems with my tablet you can click chromebook compatible tablet website to read some best tablet reviews.

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5yr ago

I don't get it. How does it know if both people are free?

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10yr ago

Clubhouse

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@dredurr It's a double opt-in. One person taps the button to multi-cast their availability to their friends in a light way. The recipients can tap the notification if they're also free, or just ignore it.

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10yr ago

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