Postmodern.

Just used the app and let me just say, you have a lifelong user in me. I absolutely love it. The design is fluid and responsive. The general idea works beautifully well. I am eager to see how it scales. In future I’d like to see if the person who posed the question is online, away or will be back in 5mins.

Hey everyone — Postmodern is a mobile app designed for ephemeral, one-on-one, anonymous conversations. Here’s how it works: * Create an account with just a phone number. (Needed to manage abuse.) * Respond to a Prompt or create your own. Prompts are topics of conversation. Each Prompt is active for 24 hours. * When you respond to a Prompt, you immediately get dropped in a private conversation with the Prompt author * Conversations are timed and last between 5 and 60 minutes (depending on how long the Prompt author chooses) * When time expires, the conversation is locked forever * If you stumble on an insight during a conversation, you can create a Snippet — a shareable chunk of conversation visible to the community It’s critical that we have the ability to intellectually explore without fear of social ramifications. Whether we seek to explore our own minds, or the structures of our society, we need communication tools that allow us to peel away the pollutants to our thought. There is certainly occasional utility in aligning our online personas with our offline person. (I worked on the team that built Google+ and supported the push to use Real Names.) But the early experimentation and incubation of ideas is incompatible with public engagement. The aim of Postmodern is to offer an environment stripped clean of the baggage that can make it hard to think clearly. No pictures, no profiles (even pseudonyms), no status, no crowds. Just two brains bouncing off of each other exploring the void. And for the literary among you… Don DeLillo is one of my favorite authors; his novels inspired this double entendre project. Pinning down the nature of postmodernism is like trying to use language to describe the divine. For me, DeLillo’s words come the closest to capturing the postmodern essence. The intent of this project is to explore the nature of postmodernism in a remarkably postmodern way. I hope you enjoy.

Already one of my favorite apps. The idea is amazing and counts with questions that we always have in mind but not always are comfortable to share with, so the discussions are always intelligent and respectful.

Very cool idea to share your mind freely without any fear of judgement. Thanks for creating the app.

a much needed tool

It's like that time, when you rode on the train with a complete stranger before internet was so popular. You were more willing to share intimate information and discuss topics, which you won't normally discuss, because chances, that you'll meet again are probably zero. This app is like a digital version of this conversation.

Great tool to speak about everyday stuff 🙆‍♂️