Hi folks, we’ve made a new app to help you schedule texts. Hedwig helped us a lot to not miss any important text to send to someone or, even to remember stuff to ourselves 🔔! We’ve been using it internally for the past few months, and after 👨🏽🎨 and 👩🏽💻 we’re happy to share our little Hedwig with you. She is now your personal owl too and will deliver any message you want at the right date and time! Hope you’ll like it :)
@audreylabuxiere Gosh i've just realised that some girls might have used those kind of schedulers to reply on my text, answering me 2 hours later if I've had waited 1 hour to reply to hers. 😅
@audreylabuxiere@matman So does this actually *send* the message? Or does it populate a message and then I have to do the final "Send"? I've only ever seen the latter on non-jailbroken iPhones.
@audreylabuxiere ahh, ok. Sounds neat, but I need something that automatically sends from my phone number. Thanks and good luck!
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While the idea is great in theory it will be difficult in practice to get adoption because people have to 1. go and download it specifically, 2. remember to use it. 3. not use all the other programs out there to remember to do something 4. want to use it in ADDITION to their other texting apps and 5. be ok with sending a text from a number they have no affiliation with and no control over. I know this, overall, is difficult problem to solve, but you will have trouble getting any large scale adoption if you cannot solve most of those problems, or make it somehow so good that people don't care.
People in this thread have mentioned Buffer, which makes sense, but the fundamental difference is that that queues messages for YOUR twitter account that are sent THROUGH your Twitter account. This sends messages on behalf of you. You could use any number of other services for that.
I like the idea, definitely, but you're going to have major issues on your hands if you cannot solves those problems! You have to meet the user where they are and make it as easy as possible for them to adopt the product and use it while they are already using something else the use every day.
@hellosmoore Also charging per text message is a weird business model — I downloaded the app but deleted it right away when I saw that.
This could all run locally for free; there's no need to create a per message fee when it could just be a push notification to trigger a self sent text.
I send maybe a thousand or few thousand texts per week. Paying 10-20¢ extra per text to buffer even 200 is literally more than I pay my carrier for texting. I hope the creators find a way to better handle this oversight.
@eyekwasi Hi, it doesn't iOS don't let you schedule message on your behalf and it is a good thing against bad intentioned apps. Some countries allows us to show 'Hedwig' as sender and we try to use it as often as we can. However your phone number will always be part of the message even if you add a signature
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