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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 xeromal »

brushfoot wrote: post #68

Yuck. If interacting with me is such a chore that someone has to automate it, I'd rather not hear from them. People don't want to be your duties. They want to be your pleasures. This changes messages from "I felt like talking to you" to "my scheduled trigger fired; please start a conversation so I can check you off my checklist." If I found out someone were using this to communicate with me, I'd frankly cut them out…

It's funny the divide between this app, but I'll give you my POV. I'm a bit of a spaz and about one of the most forgetful people you'll ever meet. I go out of my way to ask someone their name and I'll literally forget it within a minute. It's not that I intend to. I'm someone with a single-track mind that tends to really focus only on one thing.

I'm in awe of my fiance who can hold a conversation while remembering that we have to feed the meter before it expires and also remember to ask the waiter for more napkins.

I absolutely love my mom, brothers and sisters, dad, etc, but I just can't remember to do so and I've automated my life with reminders that vibrate my phone so I'll give my mom or dad a call every other day.

I don't think I'm a bad person or emotionally evil, I'm just not wired for internal reminders to do so. I'm genuinely pumped for this app.

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

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Post by _lex »

I use SKEDit to achieve this functionality today on my android phone. It works with phone calls, sms, whatsapp and emails. It's really cool when it activates - it literally will pull downthe search bar, type in 'whatsapp' to select the app, launch the app, search for the contact I told it to message, tap on them to message them, and type in the message I had automated - and you can just watch and follow along as it does all this. V awesome if you have social anxiety, a poor memory, a busy schedule, or all of the above.

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

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Post by xeromal »

zubi wrote: post #97
binkHN wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. I'm sorry. The app is currently in beta and limited to 88 countries/regions to better support this. Please let me know what country you are in so that I may rectify this.

I'm an introvert from Turkey.

This cracked me up. haha. Hey bro! I've always wanted to visit.

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

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Post by andredz »

xeromal wrote: post #109
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 so much for this. I've been noodling building something like this for a while but never had the time. Already installed and set up my mom. One question: for the days of the week icons, you have U - M - T - W - R - F - S What are U and R?

U is Sunday and R is Thursday.

This is what I found: https://eventguide.com/topics/one_digit_day_abbreviations.ht...

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

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Post by ball_of_lint »

xeromal wrote: post #109
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 so much for this. I've been noodling building something like this for a while but never had the time. Already installed and set up my mom. One question: for the days of the week icons, you have U - M - T - W - R - F - S What are U and R?

sUnday and thuRsday, to disambiguate them from Tuesday and Saturday.

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

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Post by inawarminister »

Freeboots wrote: post #105

Puts me in mind of an assistant buying birthday gifts for the bosses kids, and the boss has no idea what gift 'they' gave, or even who/when.

Always made me curious why the boss don't request daily/weekly summaries of what their assistants did for the kids. Would be easy enough with an app we control, I think?

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

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Post by xeromal »

andredz wrote: post #114
xeromal wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you so much for this. I've been noodling building something like this for a while but never had the time. Already installed and set up my mom. One question: for the days of the week icons, you have U - M - T - W - R - F - S What are U and R?

U is Sunday and R is Thursday. This is what I found: https://eventguide.com/topics/one_digit_day_abbreviations.ht...

I've never seen that in my life. Thanks for the info!

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

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Post by GrinningFool »

asteroidbelt wrote: post #100
smnrchrds wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never remember people's birthdays, so I have added them to my calendar, and I make sure to message people to wish them a happy birthday when I get the calendar notification. Does this make my happy birthday wishes fake? Should I never let anyone realize I use a calendar?

You may care about someone but forget their birthday exact date one day ahead. But you care someone and forget to send a message any day during the month? That’s not possible, that means you don’t really care.

I've been hearing people equate forgetting with not caring for my entire life.

It took me years to realize that they - and you - just can't conceive of someone who's mind operates in a way so fundamentally different from their own. So they put their values onto us, and blame us for not living up to them.

I don't blame you - that level of empathy is a hard thing to find - but damn am I tired of hearing this.

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

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Post by binkHN »

fouc wrote: post #106

Is the link broken or app is down? It redirects to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.mtc.ga And shows "We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server."

I'm sorry, but the app is currently in beta and limited to 88 countries/regions to better support this. Please let me know what country you are in so that I may rectify this.

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

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Post by seaman1921 »

ball_of_lint wrote: post #115
xeromal wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you so much for this. I've been noodling building something like this for a while but never had the time. Already installed and set up my mom. One question: for the days of the week icons, you have U - M - T - W - R - F - S What are U and R?

sUnday and thuRsday, to disambiguate them from Tuesday and Saturday.

Not a great disambiguation since satUrday also has a U.
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