SoonCall

SoonCall

Life is better with friends

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SoonCall is the mobile app that helps you manage your friendships and call your friends more often. With smart reminders and catchup tracking, SoonCall will help you feel more connected, be a better friend and feel closer than ever.
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Anna Scandella
voxu.fm
Hunter
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I have lived abroad for several years and was lucky enough to make friends from all over the world. Life does get in the way, though, and it’s easy to forget how important it is to keep in touch with people—this app is exactly what I needed! My TLDR: SoonCall is a friendship tracker that helps you manage past and upcoming phone call catch-ups with friends. It's a bit like a journal and scheduling tool combined for tracking friendships with those in different cities. I know Mark personally and have enjoyed watching SoonCall grow from the day he first pitched the idea to me to the day he and the team prepped the first app store release. Now, I can finally start using it to track my long-distance friendships, and I'm excited to see how the roadmap will evolve going forward. Here are a couple of my favourite features so far: - getting that immediate visual feedback of "Wow, has it actually been that long since we last spoke?" - adding notes after a catch-up so that I actually remember important details next time we speak.
Ksenia Meshkova
@annascandella congrats! That's so cute, I usually forget to call my family because of work.. Best of luck!!
Mark Houghton
SoonCall
Maker
Thanks for the hunt @annascandella! It's good to hear what features are speaking to you the most so far, especially since you've been following along with SoonCall's journey from the beginning. Visibility on when you last spoke, and the ability to note take are an important part of the app and I want to keep improving it further in the upcoming releases. I'm looking forward to hearing what others are most excited about too, so if you're reading this share your thoughts here on our launch page 📝 I'll be here to discuss and will make notes for our roadmap! Thanks again Anna, it means a lot to have your support as we work on making long-distance friendships that every bit easier 🌍
@annascandella Big congrats on your launch! Wishing you a successful and fulfilling journey. What’s been the most rewarding part of the process so far?
Anna Scandella
voxu.fm
Hunter
Hey @kjosephabraham! The hard work was all @mark_rsh's. I just thought it'd be a great product to share here, as I'm loving using it. I'm sure he could share what the most rewarding part of the process has been, though!
Mark Houghton
SoonCall
Maker
Hi @annascandella @kjosephabraham! Thanks for the question, I think for me the most rewarding thing for me so far has been working on a problem that really speaks to me and to others I know. I've enjoyed building on early feedback from our beta users, with the knowledge that we're making SoonCall better for them personally!
Stefans Keiss
The immediate visual feedback feature sounds really useful. How do you handle data privacy and security for the users' information?
Mark Houghton
SoonCall
Maker
Thanks @memphys_sk great question! In the current version of the app there are no accounts, so your data is local and never needs to leave your device. Data around your friendships should be yours, so there's also no plans to change that in future! For performance and anonymised analytics we're using Amplitude Any other questions drop me a message 😄 I've also put together a privacy policy if it's helpful: https://sooncall.com/privacy-policy
Kyrylo Silin
Telebugs
SoonCall sounds like a great app for maintaining long-distance friendships. Questions: - How do the smart reminders work, and can users customize the frequency of reminders for different friends? - How does the catchup tracking feature function? Congrats on the launch, Anna!
Mark Houghton
SoonCall
Maker
@kyrylosilin thanks for the kind words, and great questions! - Every friend is unique, so you could set your preference for Jane to be "Weekly" and John to be "Every 6 Months". The home screen displays smart suggestions for who might be ready for a catch up next, based on frequency and past catchups, but the goal is to continue to make this more intelligent in future releases - Catchup tracking is a place for you to check in on a recent conversation and add in any personal reflections (e.g. how it made you feel and add notes on what you chatted about). Every catchup is collected into that friends history so you can remember what you were speaking about and when
Andreas Sohns
The idea of personal CRM for friendships is great. It's so important to keep in touch with friends despite physical distance. The smart reminders and catchup tracking are super helpful.
Mark Houghton
SoonCall
Maker
Thanks for sharing @andreas_sohns, I'm glad to hear you like it! 🔥
André J
DiffSense
I need this! But finding time that fits is often the issue. If you schedule it on a cadence, life happens and one or both are unavailable. If its sponantious, then eighter or both are definitely unavailable 🤦
Mark Houghton
SoonCall
Maker
I'm glad SoonCall resonates with you @sentry_co! Scheduling and spontaneity definitely feel like two opposite ends of the spectrum and you raise valid concerns for both 😄 We've opted for "light-touch" one-off scheduling that means being more intentional about each scheduled catch up in the hope that it's more likely to happen. Putting scheduling aside for a moment, my goal is first to help people build the habit of reaching out to people regularly, since that's often a big hurdle for many. However, we have been looking at ways we could encourage more spontaneous catchups that account for each person's availability too! We do have a couple ideas in the works for this, so stay tuned...
Kehui Guo
Just Scroll
This is something that I have been dreaming of for a long time!!! Thank you for making this happen!!! Managing long-distance friendships can be so exhausting sometimes and I need some ways to re-connect with my friends every now and then! The only worry I have is how to quickly import how those contact information in, seems like a lot of work🫠 But i really love the idea, congrats on the launch of SoonCall!!!
Mark Houghton
SoonCall
Maker
@kehui_guo thank you for the kind words! I appreciate your feedback too, I feel like contact importing needs to strike a good balance between being as easy as possible while still offering customisation. One thing I'd recommend is just adding a few of your closest friends first while you familiarise yourself and then gradually add people over time. In SoonCall we've - added a contact picker to auto-fill some details from your contact book, - broken down importing it into small steps - and made many of the fields optional If you get chance to try it out, it would be great to hear how you get on and which parts feel like the most work 😊
Tony Han
💡 Bright idea
Love this idea, and honestly, I used Notion for part of this before, and it wasn't easy to set up. This looks much easier. Though, I wonder if users can just send a message to start? Congrats on building this cool product @mark_rsh and team!
Mark Houghton
SoonCall
Maker
Thanks so much @tonyhanded 🚀 I'd love to keep encouraging more phone calls as personally text based communication doesn't give me that same sense of connection. That being said, I think you make a great point about that initial reach out being a message - it can be less intrusive when you know to expect a call! We're actually looking into offering other modes of communication for those who'd like that.
Tony Han
@mark_rsh I totally get what you mean. A phone call is worth a lot. Though, I typically ask my friends to hang out via msg, so I feel that's even better!
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