Yap

An ephemeral, real-time chat room with up to 6 participants

21 followers

An ephemeral, real-time chat room with up to 6 participants

21 followers

yap is an ephemeral, real-time chat room with up to six participants. your messages appear and disappear as quickly as you type them, which means unless you pay attention to what everyone says (for once), you’ll miss it.

Launch tags:Productivity•Tech

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This currently has no way to curtail the (very likely) use of it for organized harassment (no means of reporting a chat for promoting potentially inflammatory content). Is this by design, ?Makers?

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7yr ago

Best Meme of The Decade

@jackyalcine This is meant to intro you to the design firm. Content marketing. Maybe they get findings and improve it, maybe they do something else.

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7yr ago

@armand That didn't answer the question at all. Unless this is an affirmative to something that _should_ be concerned in offline situations (harassment) wasn't concerned for something that's meant to lightly mirror it.

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7yr ago

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Maker

@jackyalcine This is a valid concern, for sure. Because we don't track any content being populated within a given room, we don't have any way of moderating what people post. We did include the ability for room creators to block individual members of a room, but if a bad egg is in the admin seat, it's up to the viewer or yapper to leave the discussion.

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7yr ago

As a huge @ginatrapani fan since the Lifehacker days, always love to see new projects she's working on. Love the design, testing to follow! Nice work Gina!

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7yr ago

Yap

Maker

@alexlazarevic Hey thank you for your kind words! The whole team at Postlight gets credit for this one (I merely cheered them on and dogfooded a bit).

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7yr ago

Juphy

I'm not sure about using the tool for team collaboration but design looks lovely and productive. Just liked the ptoduct and your vision. Probably, we need a specific use case to use YAP but do not know what it is :D

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7yr ago

DoubleMemory

This is really cool. It would also be really useful if this is hooked to a Twitter hashtag where many are using it to organize chats, which are often almost impossible to track... Also, I don't get why social media by default saves AND allows anyone to access your posts go back forever, that's just not how human communication naturally work.

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7yr ago

Willow Voice

You guys just killed it!! Loved using it so far. There's no history, one message at any time, UI looks neat and simple. It's like snapchat but for messages. Great job guys 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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7yr ago

I quite didn't understand the use case here. Can someone explain where we can use this service?

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7yr ago

@vsnthv see the article linked above. Here’s an excerpt with an analogy to IRL activity: ‘There shouldn’t be a log, because it’s not a chat room. Who needs a chat log? It’s about the moment. Imagine rolling into a pub during a Liverpool/Man City game and asking the group: “Hey could you guys share what you really enjoyed saying to one another for the past 15 minutes? I’d love to catch up!”‘

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7yr ago

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Hunter

I'm excited to check this out! Takes me back to the good old days of AIM messenger.

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7yr ago

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