Thanks @chrismessina for the hunt and hello PH!
A few years back, I noticed that instead of just being a place for the everyday chitchat, text messaging was becoming the go-to place to talk about and share more important, fun and special parts of our lives with our closest friends and family. But the way text messaging works, these more important messages are jumbled together with the everyday chitchat making it practically impossible to keep track of anything.
So, in search of a better and more meaningful way to message, I left my job as a corporate lawyer, and with the help of my technical team in Romania (salut!), we created thready. For the everyday chitchat, thready keeps things simple like texting: open the chat and send just like you’re used to (no extra steps). For the more important things, create threads (like Slack channels) within the chat. Threads make it easy to keep track of what matters.
Welcome any and all feedback on our approach, design, etc. and happy to answer any questions! Oh and we’re only available in the App Store in the US and Canada right now.
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Sean
Great idea, and your landing page value prop is super clear I got it right away. It's hard to convince me to leave my currently used messenger apps though for something I feel is more suited to a feature on messenger/whatsapp
@christopher_lee4 Thanks for the feedback! Totally understand that the switching cost is high and a barrier to adoption. I'll just say that threads have completely changed the way I stay connected with my closest friends and family. Threads have sort of become the highlights and quirks of our relationships and it's been pretty cool to see a thread develop and grow over time.
@croweschmo Makes sense, I'll give it a shot anyway and let you know what I think :)
By the way seeing as you just launched I have a market research service where for $12 you can ask 100 people a question then follow-up based on how they answered and even interview them! https://scoops.io/
You could ask e.g. "How often do you get bombarded with too many topics in a single whatsapp group chat?" to see how prevalent the problem is. Anyway If you want to give it a shot feel free to sign up and let me know which email you used over Intercom and I'll pass you $12 in free credits.
Best of luck otherwise!
Great idea, wish more chat apps had thread functionality but I'm glad to see one built specifically for it! Any plans on an Android version? Or a web portal?
@stekoshy Thanks Steve! Android and web are definitely top priorities for us.
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Having been a none hi tech savvy and having been using this app for approximately one year. This app comes in as a handy and easy tool aiding to keep my life well organized. And a great reminder of my eventful life, too.
@victoria_lc Thanks for the feedback and being a beta tester! That's great to hear.
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Great for group chats and documenting travels. Also, great way to track predictions made when watching the bachelor.
Pros:
Great for recall of life events
Cons:
None
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I would love to try it from France
Pros:
Everything mode
Cons:
not yet available everywhere and on any devices
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Hi Sean, couple of questions on your roadmap: When are you coming to France/EU/Asia any time soon? and will it be compatible for Android/web ? What's your roadmap? Why I'm asking about geography: I have friends all over the world, then the app will make sense. Will the threads be encrypted end to end? Who will own the encryption keys for the thread if you do it? Asking because it could be a potential tool within companies (i.e. IT incident management, etc...) How do you compare with Whatsapp? I would love to try it. And I already love the "everything mode"!!!
@cekitoi Thanks for the feedback. Glad you like "Everything Mode". It's actually how the product started out but was a little too much for first time users so we turned it into a setting. Works awesome and it's a great way to keep your messages in one place, while still having the ability to pop into a thread when you want to.
Expansion to other countries and releasing on Android (and then web) are high priority items for us. We are also looking into giving users the option to end-to-end encrypt a thread but we need to get feedback from users on what they want. There's a lot of pros to having a cloud based system that you'd lose when switching to end-to-end, so it just depends on what the people want.
We work similar to WhatsApp in the sense that we run through the data plan, not the talk and text plan (like SMS text). Obviously our biggest differentiator from WhatsApp are threads. We were also really focused on making our user interface as simple and minimalist as possible, and even though we added a new layer with threads, I think you'd find our interface cleaner and simpler than WhatsApp's.
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@cekitoi Agreed, can't get my family/friends to switch without a web/Android variant.
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@croweschmo I would for encryption if you plan to propose it to companies for internal use that they can manage the encryption key. By doing so, you could propose in the same version of the product a professional license and a personal usage where my discussions are protected end to end from ear dropping but in this case you manage the keys. Just a thought. One product with two channels (pro and perso) sitting side by side.
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Great for group chats and documenting travels. Also, great way to track predictions made when watching the bachelor.
Pros:Great for recall of life events
Cons:None
I would love to try it from France
Pros:Everything mode
Cons:not yet available everywhere and on any devices
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