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Cyclops calms your angry texts and roasts you a little
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Cyclops calms your angry texts and roasts you a little
28 followers
Paste (or speak) the message you're about to regret, and Cyclops, a one-eyed desk mascot, hands back a version that won't get you blocked or fired. He roasts you a bit for how heated you got, then reads the calm version aloud in the accent of your choice (Irish, Aussie, Scottish, British, American), in virtually any language. Pick your bite: sensible, petty, or talk-me-out. He steams, dozes, squeaks, and hides a few easter eggs. No account, no ads, nothing stored. Free.
The roast is the interesting design choice. A tool that just says "maybe don't send that" is a scold, and people uninstall scolds. Making it funny means the intervention costs the user less pride than it otherwise would.
Does the humor stay funny on the tenth time, though? That's the thing I'd expect to decide retention. A joke you've heard before while you're genuinely angry might land worse than no joke at all.
@ark_y_k I've made some tweaks to make it even more varied, theres a back story now too why he has some many accents and languages. Anyway maybe it's just me it does continually make cry laugh with what it comes up with. I do give it some colourful, ahem, messages to cool.
Cyclops roasting me for losing it over a parking ticket then reading the calm version in an Irish accent genuinely cracked me up. The petty mode is dangerous but the talk-me-out option is unexpectedly useful.
@birgl1s2z Thank you! It does crack me up myself over the month I developed it.
Small over-the-air (ota) updates prelaunch. Good thing about ota updates are that the user doesn't need to download a new app version, it just silently delivers.
Tweaked the personality, range and accents of our resident mascot, Cyclops, who also got his own backstory for why he has so many accents and knows so many languages.
Hey yeah that was an early UX worry and I've tried to make it vary a lot. Maybe it's not a daily use app anyway and possibly a party truck. But I will work on that algo for making it more varied.