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Short-range anonymous messaging (Secret meets Firechat)

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alonsooooo
@alonsoholmes · Adventurer
@Nivo0o0 Nice! Snapchat meets google maps :) We've been thinking the same thing regarding OS-level integration. Apple (or android, for that matter) could absolutely do it with existing APIs, and maybe that's coming. However, I'm not sure that they would ever go as far as to allow people to message you out of the blue. So far, they've been sticking with the… See more

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Niv Dror
@nivo0o0 · Writer/Social Editor @ProductHunt
@alonsoholmes slick UI, loving the BLE, how do you plan on acquiring new users?
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Digging the minimal design. Seems very similar to Popcorn Messaging (cc'ing the founder, @Popcorn_Ryan), unfortunately I don't have anybody on it within 70 meters so I haven't had a chance to really try it.
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alonsooooo
@alonsoholmes · Adventurer
@Nivo0o0 - Thanks! We wanted to see if we could make the interactions so obvious that we could avoid walkthroughs and etc. When we started hacking on Shortwave, conferences, concerts, and lectures were our big use-cases - high density of users that aren't allowed to talk aloud. We'd like to see it spread via twitter at these events and be the chat room for t… See more
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Niv Dror
@nivo0o0 · Writer/Social Editor @ProductHunt
@alonsoholmes glad you mentioned the Popcorn hold-to-view-range feature! Taking credit ;) Ya very much looking forward to using this in potential high density areas (concerts, conferences) like you said. Wont be enough though to solve the chicken-egg problem. I've come to the conclusion that the only realistic way for one of these to take off is a. if it's … See more
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alonsooooo
@alonsoholmes · Adventurer
@Nivo0o0 Nice! Snapchat meets google maps :) We've been thinking the same thing regarding OS-level integration. Apple (or android, for that matter) could absolutely do it with existing APIs, and maybe that's coming. However, I'm not sure that they would ever go as far as to allow people to message you out of the blue. So far, they've been sticking with the… See more