Thanks for the feedback Ryan!
The original idea was to help people who find it hard to respond to deep and meaningful messages, sheer stupidity or witty quips. (This has been a struggle since Nokia 5110 bricks were lugged around in school backpacks!)
Helpful users can post their suggested responses to an SMS or message and their suggestion can be up or down voted. The best replies will float to the top ready to send.
Textie was built in 48 hours during Startup Weekend #6 in Perth, Western Australia. There are still plenty of features the team would love to add, such as email notifications when your message receives responses, displaying the top two responses to each message on the front page and a nicer boost feature.
Congrats, this is a really cool use of Telescope! I would love to get your feedback on working with the app by the way, especially since I recently refactored a huge part of it to make it easier to install and customize :)
@sachagreif Hey Sacha, it was perfect to get something up and running quickly, thanks!
Although I've done general web dev before on various platforms, I've never done anything with Node, Meteor or Telescope, so there was quite a learning curve. Since it was a Startup Weekend we didn't have time to learn anything properly, so we just had to jump in and start hacking :) It took us a while to work out how to make customizations, but we managed to get the majority of the stuff we wanted to work in the end. Now that the weekend is over, we'll have to take some time to properly learn how things work! :)
Hi everyone, just an update on textie's progress since being launched 2 weeks ago.
Since being listed on Product Hunt, we've had some pretty intense media coverage, including Comso magazine, New York Post, Daily Mail (UK) and a few TV spots back here in Australia (you can see the list of coverage at textie.strikingly.com). It's fair to say the Product Hunt effect is well and truly to thank as it sparked the first article on DailyDot.
We feel the attention and large surge in usage has validated textie.co as a viable product so the team has decided to continue working on the project to see how far we can take it. We're currently looking to hire a full-time developer to build this thing out. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Without the initial traffic from ProductHunt's listing we might have just left textie.co at the end of Startup Weekend.
Thank you to the good people at Product Hunt!
I've used Nattr before and I look forward to trying Textie. For me, it serves as an exercise in creativity and wit. Helping people come up with funny and witty responses keeps my mind sharp.
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