Launching today
Paste Drops
Cyclops calms your angry texts and roasts you a little
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Cyclops calms your angry texts and roasts you a little
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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.
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.
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.