What's the story with the name? How do you pronounce it? The product seems interesting, but I'm not a sharer on social media.
The name is short for "homeskillet," which is a colloquial term of endearment for a good friend. I met my cofounder on an airplane 7 years ago and developed our friendship while each living in distant cities (SF, Taipei, Berlin, London). I called him homeskillet once but he didn't understand the meaning since he's French, so it randomly became our placeholder project name as we bounced around ideas for cool things to build.
Hey everyone - we're working on Hmsklt.app to help friends form deeper relationships and more authentic connection. - Join a small group of friends for a 7-day "bonfire" centered around a theme like Daily Gratitudes, Small Moments in Your Day, Weird Fun Stories, Self Love, Childhood Memories, or Highlights + Lowlights. - Each day, the group will get a prompt to respond with short videos — a chance to reflect on the t…
"Daily Gratitudes", "Self Love"... This sort of curated communication reminds me a lot about how it feels to be around believers... It makes me shiver. Authentic communication cant be based on a framework of acceptable topics preselected by, well, whom? Besides, less screen time is the only way to go to strengthen friendships.
Hey everyone - we're working on Hmsklt.app to help friends form deeper relationships and more authentic connection. - Join a small group of friends for a 7-day "bonfire" centered around a theme like Daily Gratitudes, Small Moments in Your Day, Weird Fun Stories, Self Love, Childhood Memories, or Highlights + Lowlights. - Each day, the group will get a prompt to respond with short videos — a chance to reflect on the t…
The stories prompted by this app will be very personal. Shouldn’t they be protected from third parties? Encryption with a shared symmetric key sounds reasonable?
This seems very focused on friendships, but it sounds like a pretty interesting way to get a bit closer with my remote coworkers.
I hope OP takes this as a pivot for the product. Connecting with friends is already solved, connecting with co-workers on a personal level much less so, especially remote.
Not all people want a deeply personal relationship with their co-workers, many would even find being forced to engage in that intrusive. Unfortunately once those bonds are formed between some members of a team, often the team dynamic is shifted weirdly as some people feel forced into the "buddy buddy system"...it's classic now and forcing it into remote work seems like a nightmare
What's the story with the name? How do you pronounce it? The product seems interesting, but I'm not a sharer on social media.
The name is short for "homeskillet," which is a colloquial term of endearment for a good friend. I met my cofounder on an airplane 7 years ago and developed our friendship while each living in distant cities (SF, Taipei, Berlin, London). I called him homeskillet once but he didn't understand the meaning since he's French, so it randomly became our placeholder project name as we bounced around ideas for cool things to…
Just calling it “homeskillet” would be better.
(Although, I’ve never heard that term before, so it still wouldn’t be great me for at least.)
Hey everyone - we're working on Hmsklt.app to help friends form deeper relationships and more authentic connection. - Join a small group of friends for a 7-day "bonfire" centered around a theme like Daily Gratitudes, Small Moments in Your Day, Weird Fun Stories, Self Love, Childhood Memories, or Highlights + Lowlights. - Each day, the group will get a prompt to respond with short videos — a chance to reflect on the t…
"Daily Gratitudes", "Self Love"... This sort of curated communication reminds me a lot about how it feels to be around believers... It makes me shiver. Authentic communication cant be based on a framework of acceptable topics preselected by, well, whom? Besides, less screen time is the only way to go to strengthen friendships.
Agreed, I just had a strong stomach churn thinking about the slightly crazy eyed, chipper, vision board writing, medium article writing, HR types who who act like they're some kind of middle school camp counselor..."Today, tell me three things that made you sad, silly me..it's the 2021? Take a selfie of yourself telling your friends what makes you sad" f'ng yikes.
Hey everyone - we're working on Hmsklt.app to help friends form deeper relationships and more authentic connection. - Join a small group of friends for a 7-day "bonfire" centered around a theme like Daily Gratitudes, Small Moments in Your Day, Weird Fun Stories, Self Love, Childhood Memories, or Highlights + Lowlights. - Each day, the group will get a prompt to respond with short videos — a chance to reflect on the t…
"... Stories, Self Love, Childhood..."
I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable posting videos of that to my friends...
1. All the titles on the homepage do word-wrapping after each letter. Resize the width on a computer to see it. 2. Are those prompts generated by you? I'd be put off by too many challenges like "daily gratitudes" or such self improvement trendy hoopla.
Thanks for the website feedback!
We did generate most of the prompts ourselves but there's a pretty broad range:
- Getting to know each other better through sharing funny weird stories, music that's shaped you, stories from childhood, etc
- Sharing small moments in your day-to-day life: things that made you smile, times you were frustrated, weird morning routines, etc
- Improving mental wellness by reflecting on your priorities, how you take care of yourself, or things that you're worrying about these days