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Chris Messina
@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
Pretty simple concept: Pinguin is an interest based conversation app where users follow topics/interests they love, with an additional lens of adding proximity. It's kind of like Slack, but for all your non-work topics for people in and around wherever you are... at least that's how I understand it. Am I getting it right @bryan_o85?
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Greetings Product Hunt Community!
First things first... The entire Pinguin Team would like to thank @chrismessina for hunting our app. It is an absolute honor.
Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Bryan and my team and I are proud to introduce to you…🥁 Pinguin!
Pinguin is a social conversation app that seeks to break away from the friend model and… See more
Sebastian Dobrincu
@sebyddd · Co-Founder of Storyheap. 🔑
EDIT: Founders addressed the issue and proved that this is not the case.
Some very strange details around this project. In 2014, @andreineagucom, @perte and I started *Pengin* (https://twitter.com/PengInApp), which was a very similar concept, for social gatherings. We went through Orange's Innovation Accelerator program and won the Smart City category.
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Joshua Gunning
@joshua_gunning · CEO, Pinguin
@sebyddd @perte What was it that Jobs' had said, "Good artists copy; great artists steal"? I can assure you this is not one of those moments. We spent weeks meticulously deconstructing names and sketching proposed logos. At one point in time, we nearly called the company "Lime" standing for leave important messages everywhere. However, after much hot debate … See more
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Joshua Gunning
@joshua_gunning · CEO, Pinguin
Hi All,
I'm Josh one of the founders and CEO of Pinguin. First and foremost, I want to genuinely thank all that have already taken the time to support us and write a message. With that I wanted to give a bit of history on myself and why I decided to help co-build Pinguin - so without further ado:
Just felt like sharing a stream of consciousness I had...
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