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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 sometimes write thoughtful replies to HN submissions many hours later, after ruminating, but HN has moved on to the next new thing. (It is a "news" site after all).
Very nice! Many years ago I lived in a house without a phone - the only meaningful way to communicate with faraway friends was sending and receiving paper letters via post. In many ways, that cadence was a great way to maintain relationships over many years, with minimal mental overhead. Maybe Pony should send/receive messages once a week/month, instead of daily :-)
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Very nice! Many years ago I lived in a house without a phone - the only meaningful way to communicate with faraway friends was sending and receiving paper letters via post. In many ways, that cadence was a great way to maintain relationships over many years, with minimal mental overhead. Maybe Pony should send/receive messages once a week/month, instead of daily :-)
You might enjoy https://www.futureme.org (there are others as well I see, but I think they were the first). I've used it with a few friends and myself over the last ~15 years - usually in 1-5 year increments. Whenever I receive an email, I make sure to type out a response over the next few days and send it off to be received in x years. It has always been a nice surprise receiving a "diary" entry from myself in the p…
I guess this can now be done with Gmail/Superhuman/Boomerang "send later" feature as well.
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You might enjoy https://www.futureme.org (there are others as well I see, but I think they were the first). I've used it with a few friends and myself over the last ~15 years - usually in 1-5 year increments. Whenever I receive an email, I make sure to type out a response over the next few days and send it off to be received in x years. It has always been a nice surprise receiving a "diary" entry from myself in the p…
Interesting! I guess this can now be done with Gmail/Superhuman/Boomerang "send later" feature as well.
I particularly like that FutureMe is a service solely dedicated to the task of sending an email in 1/3/5 years. I'm guessing infra-costs are pretty low - the site hasn't changed much in 15 years i.e. I would hope they can continue running long into the future, whereas some of these other services are at the whims (gmail excluded) of survival against a multitude of competing services and being able to continue running long into the future. A lot changes in 5 years - it feels like a lot of services from 15 years ago don't even exist anymore. Oh and a nice bonus for some people - you can allow your emails to be shown publicly (and anonymously ;)
The idea/term of "Outbox" really reminds me of email of the old days (in the 90s) where you have a desktop email client (e.g. Eudora, or Internet Mail and News, or even earlier versions of Outlook Express) that don't do auto-sends, and only connect to your POP3/SMTP servers when you click Send and Receive. This was probably due to internet being on dial-up and being billed by the minutes was common so users limited t…
But humans are herd animals after all and long to keep in touch with the herd. All the time. Like the borg. Even more so, if addiction is exploitable. You hear me, facebok.
Indeed 1x day may be much healthier, but prbly too adult to catch.
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Yes, that will definitely be the big challenge. I don't think we will convince everyone . Not everyone wants or needs the type of interpersonal connection that Pony is designed to support. But I think that's okay: my bet is that enough people will appreciate having the Pony option to have made it worthwhile to have built. I wanted it anyway... :) This isn't meant to replace instant communication, but to augment insta…
Love your enthusiasm :). Okay from a different angle. Im sure you have thought about this: My point was referring to the challenge of moving people away from their existing communication platforms. So I wrote down some quick ideas how to move your philosophy which many of us clearly appreciated to our current workflow. Convincing individuals to your product is something you are clearly succeeding in, but for many of…
And for sure, it's hard to change behavior in general. It's been hard for me—and I made this product. Sometimes I send a message to someone and I'm like: "Why did I sent that instantly?" But I've been improving.
For Pony to be successful at some kind of scale, there will need to be "influencers" (aka "leaders"?) who help makes this someone of a culturally relevant movement. Finding those people and getting them on board will be a big focus of my marketing effort.
Would be interesting to see a Google implementation...
The idea/term of "Outbox" really reminds me of email of the old days (in the 90s) where you have a desktop email client (e.g. Eudora, or Internet Mail and News, or even earlier versions of Outlook Express) that don't do auto-sends, and only connect to your POP3/SMTP servers when you click Send and Receive. This was probably due to internet being on dial-up and being billed by the minutes was common so users limited t…
your nick hints you fancy waiting. I like that. But humans are herd animals after all and long to keep in touch with the herd. All the time. Like the borg. Even more so, if addiction is exploitable. You hear me, facebok. Indeed 1x day may be much healthier, but prbly too adult to catch.
Very nice! Many years ago I lived in a house without a phone - the only meaningful way to communicate with faraway friends was sending and receiving paper letters via post. In many ways, that cadence was a great way to maintain relationships over many years, with minimal mental overhead. Maybe Pony should send/receive messages once a week/month, instead of daily :-)