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Snowball — All your messages in one place (on Android)
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@illscience congrats on the launch! What motivated you guys to build this? What other messengers are on your integration list? Finally, when can I use on iOS?
Thanks @liveink - decided to build it because 50% of the icons on my home screen are messaging apps and it was painful to keep switching across them. iOS at some point but right now we're giving mad love to Android first!
Thanks @kevinrose .. would love to know what the community thinks, thanks for everyone's support.
@illscience I think it's a great start! Plus I love Android first (and I guess you cannot do the same thing on iOS just yet anyway). Time will tell if I prefer Snowball over the native notifications, but I'm giving it a shot. What I like is that I often forget about convos I had in one app I don't personally use that much, and then forget to get back to people. Having one unified inbox like with Snowball solves this - it's works kind of like a todo-list for all messages that are not emails.
Would like to see Telegram support btw :)
@michael_xander - you got it - we're excited about the Android-first approach and we'll share interesting data as we see it ..
My buddy Anish just launched Snowball this morning. Excited there's a way to finally have all social msgs in one app
Playing with it this morning. I love that it pops up similarly to facebook messenger. UI is awesome & little snow ball guy is really fun. I agree on-boarding was a little slow. But is well designed so I stuck with it.
I think this would be killer if I could also respond to messages from it.
@UXAndrew Working on making it available in more, I'd be happy to add you to our beta users group if you're interested? Shoot me an email: anish [at] squanda
@JadoJodo Not yet but it's definitely on the short list - lots of folks asking for it. Stay tuned and thanks!
I like the idea of bringing all under one hood! Pretty interesting too see an Android-first approach, would be cool if you could share some insights about the adoption once the iOS version is released as-well.
+1 awesome point for android first. For iOS I wonder if you could hack it by making your app a bluetooth visible app that supports notification center api. downside is that you'd have to then pair something but maybe a way to get around that with some wizardry!
Possible bug - I turned of the snowball tab (found it distracting), but it comes back if my screen locks and I unlock it.
Right now it's just a quick launcher for all of your chat apps. What other features are planned?
Something like this probably will be integrated into all phones in the future. Why do you think this hasn't happened before?
Finally an app that gets released on Android first! I installed it just for that.
Some quick feedback, I think the onboarding experience was a little too slow/long for my tastes; it was also prolonged by having to actually interact with the demo since it wasn't clear at first that any input was needed. I love that Snowball uses SMS though, as I found the native Android SMS app to be really slow.
@kokev thanks - we're hearing that a bunch and we're def going to make the OOB sign up flow faster.
re: SMS, yeah the native one is painful .. I use HelloSMS which is fantastic.
Would love to hear any other feedback as you think of it! Thanks.
I've been waiting for something like this! Can't wait to try it out on iOS. Congratulations on the launch 👏
Wow. @kevinrose - tell Anish to launch Snowball for iOS soon (if Apple allows it).
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