PhoneTag

Don't make phone calls when you can PhoneTag

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Don't make phone calls when you can PhoneTag

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Render Sandboxes: a computer for every agentIsolated compute, persistent state and a real filesystem

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Hunter

hey folks, i'm the head of product at http://branch.com/company - the group of folks who built PhoneTag, among other conversational products. What's up?

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13yr ago

Farmstead

love the idea, won't most early adopters just use skype or any mobile im and late adopters just use voicemail?

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13yr ago

Product Hunt

Yoyo, @joshm! First off, love the design of the app. Beautiful. Just did my first phonetag w/ @joshelman and love the experience. Where did the inspiration come for PhoneTag and is this another short hack like Friendlib or something you plan to invest in longer term? P.S. would love to hear @joshelman & @willydennis' take on this.

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13yr ago

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Hunter

Definitely a hack, Ryan. Basically, we wanted to challenge ourselves (product-wise) in a new way. I realized I hated "calling" my mom, gf, etc. yet I have to do it a lot, so we thought, "Why do phone calls/VMs suck and how can we make them better?" Things like it being synchronous, lacking images, etc. immediately came to mind.

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13yr ago

Product Hunt

@joshm - The feed of messages reminds me of @bencera_'s Context (http://trycontext.com). Which (if any) apps did you take inspiration from in the design of PhoneTag?

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13yr ago

Product Hunt

@joshm - Ok, I gotta #realtalk. Why are you building these "hacks" (and I don't mean that in a derogatory sense) rather than focusing on one product?

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13yr ago