Welcome, Product Hunters! For 2 days only, we’re releasing Hiboo in exclusivity, before everyone else on ProductHunt!
We’re very excited to be here! It’s super early but your feedback is very important so we’d love to know what you think!
HOW IT WORKS
Hiboo allows you to see what your friends type in real-time. No need to wait or no tap “send” anymore, you communicate at the speed of thought.
FUTURE FEATURES?
Just for you, here is a sneak peak of the secret sauce coming! Think real-time stickers, think real-time group chats.
And why limit that to an app? Think about Medium Meeting Twitch: A platform where writers could write their stories in realtime to their readers.
EASTER EGGS!
We’ve put all our love into building this lovely product and we really hope you like it! Pssst: There are easter eggs on the page for you to find!
I’ll be around here and you can also reach me on Twitter https://twitter.com/stylizit or at matthieu@hiboo.co
Thanks a lot!
Matt (Co-Founder)
@jcampbell_05@hiboo There's one we can grossly qualify as an Easter egg. Hint: it's a cat. But there will be more to come in the next updates :) What would you like to have?
@stylizit@hiboo HI there, really cool idea! Are you planning on making this code available for embedding into other applications? For example, a third party messaging service?
This reminds me of a product Google once made, where you can see the other person's messages as they were being typed. I'm forgetting the name, anyone know what I'm talking about?
@jcampbell_05@carbonm Agree! Perhaps it died too quickly due to having too many features all at once? Perhaps the market wasn't ready for it either? (Pre-periscope era)
@stylizit@carbonm I think it was ahead of its time and a lot of the modern culture of having a platform like Slack that apps plugged into wasn't there. I think the main killer was internet speed, at the time I could barley load Facebook Lite onto my mobile phone. I think if it launched today it would be a hit :)
I'd argue latency is critical for productive communication. We're very adept at maintaining it at speed in person - we all 'think before we speak' even if sometimes it doesn't seem so. On screen we're highly trained for linear conversations, so much so that we easily thread multiple convos into one stream (I see it all the time in Slack, Hipchat, FB Comments). I agree w/ @bentossell - don't see a use-case I can sink my teeth into, which isn't a reason to discount what you've built I just wonder whether it can get beyond novelty. Messaging interfaces will be very central to the next phase of services and products, so there could be something here, it just feels like a feature, as opposed to a product or core problem that needs solving.
@dshan@bentossell Hi Derek! Thanks a lot for taking the time to give your this very detailed feedback! We absolutely agree with you: latency is critical for communication.
It might looks like a feature right now because we've just launched our v1.0, but we have big plans for it, and we definitely consider Hiboo as a full product. As an example: think about all the interaction that will be possible with real-time Group Chats. We honestly can't wait for it because it's really going to be mad!
We are also really solving a problem. When your friend is typing for 5 minutes and the only words she says are “I’m fine". It’s very frustrating especially for young people. You should see the reaction of the teenagers to whom we presented the app. It’s really something for them! :)
Hibooo, Product Hunters,
I am Andriy - CTO & Co-founder of Hiboo. I am usually quite annoyed to be stuck in the app and star at "typing " bubble. Also, I usually send many short messages to keep the other person engaged. To solve these problems, we at Hiboo developed the iOS app for you! I mainly worked on logic and networking part of iOS app and our backend.
If you guys are interested how everything works, say hi me in Hiboo! :-)
Feel free to invite your friends to the app, as messaging becomes quite boring when you are all alone :-)
Thanks,
andriy@hiboo.co
Andriy
@jcampbell_05 in average, it transfers 10-20x more text than usual messaging apps. However, text data is really tiny compared to media content that you consume in other apps. Not sure I can provide quantitate info about battery usage but it is not much different from other messaging apps.
I do support all the concerns of old school users, who prefer thinking before saying something, let alone the grammar nazi users, for whom this feature will be just unacceptable, because there will be no chance to fix typos and punctuation mistakes.
But at the same time, taking into consideration how mad the next gen is about I WANT IT HERE & I WANT IT NOW features, how little they care about grammar and punctuation, how fast and sometimes crazy they are, this might become a killer feature and this app has a chance to fire.
I believe creators know about all this and target the right audience.
Good luck.
@aramiggs Thanks you very much for your support Aram, these are exactly the people we're targeting indeed! Replying to your concerns about grammar, you can also auto-correct in real-time in app, which is also super fun to see! :)
Hello Product Hunters!
I'm Eleanor, the product geek joining Matt and Andriy with this lovely app. Feel free to shoot your questions in my direction, I'd love to chat.
Thank you all for being so wonderful with your support and feedback!
Eleanor ( eleanor@hiboo.co, http://twitter.com/tweetanor )
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