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Alternatively, Pony could maybe piggyback on email by providing an email address that proxies to each Pony account.
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Thank you! I really appreciate it. > However, no mention of monetization strategy. Thanks for bringing this up. I was hoping to give a brief introduction and then to field questions. I will definitely not be selling personal data, or data otherwise. I do have some monetization ideas, and I'm really excited to try them out. They're all going to fit nicely with the core concept of the platform: periodicity. One of them…
> I hope that with enough traction and some investment, I'll be able to hire an expert to help add privacy features that I can advertise in good faith. Now is a really good time to learn. Seriously. libsodium is an excellent example of a library which provides user-friendly APIs that don't require you to roll your own crypto and is very strongly audited by experts — see https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/public-key_cry…
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Or they could just not do it because it's not that important to most people... HN comment sections are not representative of the general populace.
I don't think this is true anymore. The average user may not know what end-to-end encryption is, but they know they don't trust Facebook. And Apple built a whole marketing campaign around user privacy. I think most people do care about privacy, but they're usually powerless to defend it.
If you made this a Matrix client, I think you'd really have something. Using the matrix-rust-sdk, you could even get E2EE that people are requesting for free.
I haven't heard of even one of the things you mentioned
I noticed the In App Purchase names are "Massive", "Generous", "Enormous"; I think these are donations (based on your comment in this submission), but I wouldn't know that without visiting the HN thread. If they're donations, I'd change the In App Purchase names to something like "Donation: Massive", etc.
I really like the idea; congrats on the launch! I noticed the In App Purchase names are "Massive", "Generous", "Enormous"; I think these are donations (based on your comment in this submission), but I wouldn't know that without visiting the HN thread. If they're donations, I'd change the In App Purchase names to something like "Donation: Massive", etc.
Yes—the names are definitely a little... strange. They're artifacts from my first submission to the App Store when I didn't know how they would appear in the app description, and I've left them because getting into a groove with the Apple App Store took some time, and I didn't want to do anything to upset that.
It's been a really interesting experience, though. The first Store review process was confusing and took a few days. But lately it's been quite smooth. This last version (2.1.7) was reviewed and accepted in under an hour. And in the middle of a weekday. If it stays this smooth, I might be inclined to try and rename the IAPs :).
One suggestion from my side is to add a delivery at 12:00AM. This will help to create a unique long form communication on special occasion days (birthday, wedding day, graduation) that is not achievable in other messengers. This can be a unique value of Pony that can help with customer uptake.
What the best/recognizable way to advertise the someone can write to me using pony. Can there be like ponyto://myusername@ponymessenger.com ?
Thank you, that's a good question. I've been trying to figure that out. The URI scheme is not something that has occurred to me, but that seems like a pretty good idea—at least for tech people. Otherwise, maybe a QR code, or at least getting into services like Linktree, so that logo and concept becomes recognizable. Am I missing anything else?
Maybe also a mail server bridge ? If So write to @ponymessenger.com it reply with "You message will be once a day, you can edit and cancel, by clicking this link".