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Postmodern. — Anonymous, short, ephemeral conversations with others
Postmodern is the app for anonymous, short, ephemeral one-on-one conversations. Explore the void.
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wild concept, love it @metabright!
Some ideas
- audio notes instead of text?
- conversation duration is kind of hard to grok in an async exchange - how about number of replies as a constraint?
@pattyjburns Appreciate the thoughts, Patrick!
Voice notes are definitely appealing and it's something we might do. The reason I like text is that a person's gender, ethnicity, age, and ability can remain hidden much more easily. (The gender piece is huge. I didn't want to build a magnet for creepy guys.) Downside is that intimacy and tone are sacrificed. It's something I'm still pondering.
Excellent point on the challenge of conversation duration in this kind of setup. It's something that I *think* will be mostly resolved with better partner matching -- most critically both people being online simultaneously. I love the alternative you propose though about alternative constraints. Thank you!
Nice idea. I understand that the ?makers want to keep the product as minimal as possible at the beginning but I'd love to see the following features added:
- Web app version (I personally don't like typing on a smartphone).
- Audio conversations.
- Ability to filter conversations by language.
Interesting idea. Just installed the app and will give it a proper go on the weekend.
I like the idea. Useful for sure. You might think of targeting the English language learning market. Speak with someone to learn English based on your fluency level and interest. It's my field.
Do you, does someone at your end or connected to your end, record or store conversations? Specifically, the content of conversations? Does, or can, Firebase collect, record, store the content of conversations? (I read https://postmodern.app/privacy )
Nice idea, and cool app. Kinda thought it was audio only, until I figured I have to type
Really enjoying the app so far. I’m a little confused on a couple things:
What’s the number below “you.”?
What is the down arrow on the snippets page?
On thing that I’d personally like to see, although probably not part of the plan, is to chime in on conversations actively perhaps? Idk, I’d just like to see what some other people are saying about the topic at hand I think. 🤷♂️
Little thing is the green is also a little too harsh on my eyes… but that’s subjective.
Overall, simple, great product!
Love this, a few questions:
* Are you adding E2E?
* Are the phone numbers currently encrypted at rest in Firebase?
* Do you disable screenshots?
* Where are your servers hosted?
Just used the app and let me just say, you have a lifelong user in me. I absolutely love it. The design is fluid and responsive. The general idea works beautifully well. I am eager to see how it scales. In future I’d like to see if the person who posed the question is online, away or will be back in 5mins.
@kamnelechukwu Thanks for the friendly words and for the useful feedback! Your pain-point is mine too -- when I respond to a Prompt I want that conversation to start *now*. The dream is to deliver the user into an active conversation with the "best" person for them as soon as they decide they want to talk. (If you've ever played online timed chess where people are matched based on Elo score, the idea is similar.)
So I love your product it’s almost ridiculous how much I have used it. I just thought of an idea that I can see PM scale to- maybe a feature suggestion where it’s like people leave voice notes no names just conversations. Also I hate that a conversation ends and I cannot reopen it if I choose to continue it.
Also if there’s a better place where I can leave notes or feedback let me know, in the meantime I’ll just keep leaving them here.
@kamnelechukwu Yeah, Product idea looks fresh and clear. And I love bright branding and logo. Congrats with the launch!
@kamnelechukwu Yes! I toyed around with voice notes in an earlier iteration, I think there's absolutely a nugget there. I settled on text-only because it was important to me to retain the anonymity of the person and not give away any hints as to their age, gender, ethnicity, or ability. I just liked the concept of people bringing their writing to the party and nothing else.
Re: conversations ending. I've been there too when I don't open my phone in time. Once the remaining time gets below 1 minute, if you and your conversation partner both agree, you can extend the chat by 5 minutes. Slightly longer-term, PM will guide you to Prompts with a well-suited conversation partner who is actively online. Ideally you're chatting with each other for the duration of the time window, so conversations ending too soon isn't a worry.
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