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Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people

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Post by binkHN »

Hello hackers. I wrote the app and I hope it can help others like me.

I’m not very good at keeping in touch with friend and family. Also, my girlfriend likes little text messages here and there, and I’m not good at sending them. So “there’s an app for that,” right? No, there actually wasn’t. So I made one.

I define the app as a smart device automation tool for text messages, calls and email that’ll help you stay in touch.

The story on how the app got started, my eureka moments, repeated failures and a little technical detail is at https://medium.com/@mtc.dev/my-first-android-app-story-331c9....

I’d love some feedback.

Cheers.

Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people

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Post by nullify88 »

binkHN wrote: post #2

Hello hackers. I wrote the app and I hope it can help others like me. I’m not very good at keeping in touch with friend and family. Also, my girlfriend likes little text messages here and there, and I’m not good at sending them. So “there’s an app for that,” right? No, there actually wasn’t. So I made one. I define the app as a smart device automation tool for text messages, calls and email that’ll help you stay in t…

Getting a 403 error i'm afraid. I'd love to check it out.

Strangely, refreshing the page after recieving the 403 gets me to the app store. But clicking the HN link always results in an inital 403:/

Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people

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Post by mathattack »

binkHN wrote: post #2

Hello hackers. I wrote the app and I hope it can help others like me. I’m not very good at keeping in touch with friend and family. Also, my girlfriend likes little text messages here and there, and I’m not good at sending them. So “there’s an app for that,” right? No, there actually wasn’t. So I made one. I define the app as a smart device automation tool for text messages, calls and email that’ll help you stay in t…

Thank you for sharing! If you don’t mind - has anyone come back to you concerned about automated notes seeming disingenuous? (This could appear like a generic holiday card on what should be a more personal format) From you Medium post it clearly comes from the right place.

Also - if your girlfriend is ok with this, and encourages you to finish the project, she’s a keeper.

Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people

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Post by 29athrowaway »

I do not like the name "CommuniqAI".

Think about how a person would recommend this app to a friend.

    A: "Hey, check this out, it's an app called 'CommuniqAI', it's great".
    B: "How do I spell that?"
    A: "C-o-m-m-u-n-i-q..."
    B: "Sorry, I lost you, start over"
    A: "It starts the same as Communism, but ism it ends in q-A-I"
    B: "grrr, fuck it. I am going to install Signal or Telegram"
Don't make it harder for people to recommend your app.

Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people

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Post by evrydayhustling »

Love the simple design. $.02 - absolutely require interaction / customization before the app sends messages. Reminding people to send is service enough, and creates an interaction opportunity to refine settings. But sending automatically requires asymmetric attention between sender and recipient - which is almost always bad news for relationships, soon or over time.

Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people

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Post by Dave_TRS »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #5

Absolutely love it. Does it support birthday, anniversary, and other special date reminders? Consider cribbing off of the Monica friends CRM [1] for inspiration. Any plans for an iOS version? [1] https://www.monicahq.com/

+1 I would love this app if it did birthdays. I like sending texts, not FB messages, but it's a pain to check Facebook to see who's birthday it is and then find them in my address book. I'd love to sit down once and manually create a list of everyone I want to send a birthday text do, and then have this app either auto-send or notify me with a button to launch a blank text I can type to the person
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