MateMessage

Get an email reminder to keep in touch with your mates

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Get an email reminder to keep in touch with your mates

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- Get a weekly email reminder to message a friend - Comes with conversational prompts and activity ideas - Add up to six friends - Helps you take the time to reconnect

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Launch tags:Email•Productivity

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MateMessage

Maker

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm an Australian living and working in the UK and I struggle to stay in touch with friends back home and others who are also living abroad. MateMessage started out as a product just for me—it was going to be a spreadsheet and a Zap to send me a random friends' name every week and a reminder to send them a message. Then I thought others might have the same problem, so I've put together the site and got some friends signed up. I'm keen to find out whether remembering to get in touch with friends is an issue for others and how people solve it. Does anyone have a reliable approach to staying in touch? At the moment I've got the number of mates you can add via the form restricted to six. I thought this would help focus peoples' minds on who they actually value enough to stay in touch with! It's pretty arbitrary though... I'd love to hear whether the problem of staying in touch is one that others have tackled and what people think of MateMessage. Thanks for checking it out! Dan

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5yr ago

GitNoter

This is helpful to stay in touch with friends

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5yr ago

MateMessage

Maker

@vivekweb2013 Thanks Vivek–it has certainly increased the number of catch ups I've had recently!

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5yr ago

Fugo + Zapier For Digital Signage

Interesting idea... especially as an expat living abroad who feels constant guilt about falling out of touch 😔 I found I reeeaaalllllyyy struggled to come up with 6 people (actually only got to 5, and 2 of them ended up being family.) But then again, I did this off the top of my head without any social media or contacts list on hand... I probably could have come up with more, had I sat down with these things and made a concerted effort to go through them and pluck out some more names. My theory is that if you actually follow through, the reminders become less necessary as you get into the routine of striking up conversations. So in that sense, 6 might feel restrictive and repetitive at some point. But it's the kind of thing you just have to test for a while. Anyways, I'll give it a go. If nothing else, this was a great thought exercise to see which people I wish I had more of in my life :) Thanks for sharing and best of luck with your launch!

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5yr ago