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Anonymous one-on-one conversation with someone via text
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Jordan Singer
Convoy 2 — Have an anonymous one-on-one conversation with someone.
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Jordan Singer
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We're excited to release an awesome update for Convoy that supports 5 platforms including SMS, Slack, Telegram, Hangouts and Kik. You can now have a one-on-one anonymous conversation that's cross-platform no matter where it gets started from. We've also added features like Passport, which lets you start a conversation with someone in a specific location, and Date, which matches you with others you're interested in to talk.
Hassan Abdulhamid
omegle.com but for classic folks
Shiv
Maker
@uxdzen haha. I believe we met on convoy last night 🙌
Kori Handy
Interesting, but will not have the juice to crack the anonymous market done right. The "Why" is missing so much when I use this app, it feels way too forced, when people are bored they use Snapchat, FB, Twitter..etc retention will be your biggest enemy.
Shiv
Maker
@koridhandy Thank you for your feedback. So with convoy, you dont have to necessarily initiate a convoy every time from your end. You can get randomly matched when someone starts a convoy somewhere. You can either chose to go ahead with that conversation or 'stop' it. If you don't want to be matched, you can always do 'delete'.
Ben Tossell
What is the draw to having an anonymous conversation with someone? The example conversation on the landing page - I just cant imagine that actually happening Also being anonymous, unfortunately its still highly likely that there will be bullying, trolling etc
Hope Atina
@bentossell back at it again with those critical questions
Jacob Hobbie
@bentossell As someone who used the original product, it was interesting to see where exactly it was popular. I met a few people from the Middle East, and someone from Italy. As a Kansan, it was really cool to reach out and learn more about places that I wasn't from. That's where my conversations on Convoy go anyway.
Shiv
Maker
@bentossell To answer your question, its the same attention draw for apps like Omegle, yik yak etc. Its a new way to meet new people too. And believe it or not, you really can get interesting conversations (like the one on the landing page). Here's a sample from version 1 - :)
Ben Tossell
@shivkanthb yeh I understand that - but that seems like it could just be a novelty factor and not something built for longevity. I dont know why I'd bother drumming up a random convo. just my opinion.
Ben Tossell
@the_onlyhope would be useless for me to just say "cool" - I'm happy being the one asking the hard questions, especially if others dont want to. Its also just my opinion.
Joe d'Elia
No one would talk to me 😫
Shiv
Maker
As Jordan mentioned, We have 2 major updates. We now support Convoy on Telegram, Kik, Slack and even Google Hangouts. The cool part is the interoperability. Irrespective of the platform, you get connected to someone using convoy. The second update includes Passport & Date. Try them out :)
Amrith
Any plans for a webapp?
Shiv
Maker
@ambonium so that depends on the platform you are on. Slack and telegram have their web app versions already. Currently we don't have any plans of having a standalone app 😸
Jamie Akers
Any plans to extend this to other platforms? Looks like you could widen your market massively by adding Skype and WhatsApp support
Shiv
Maker
@jamiequackers Absolutely. WhatsApp does not have support for Bots yet. And we are actually waiting to hear back from Skype. So hopefully soon!
Garry Miller
About time! I will try this out. Thanks for putting this together.