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Re: Show HN: Miimic – Let your friends text for you

#11

Post by sillysaurus3 »

jchoudh wrote: post #5
diminish wrote: post #2

extreme scroll triggered animations make it impossible on my tablet to read much.. Edit: what's the use case, why? Who would use such an app, any use cases you think of?

Diminish, it's no secret that texting has become the primary and preferred channel for dating. The texts you send are the only thing that make or break you after you receive someone's phone number and it's obvious that some people are better at texting than others. Often times what you will see is young men and women giving their phones to their friends to text someone special for them. We hope to solve this by openi…

Interesting idea. Why not put your comment on the website somewhere? I scrolled through several screens of animations and still had no idea what your app did.

Re: Show HN: Miimic – Let your friends text for you

#13

Post by bignaj »

Is this text flirting for awkward people who can't come up with their own responses or is there another use case? I liked @spartango's idea of an email version for team interactions with sensitive partners/clients/contracts... but I can't see why anyone with even average social skills would use this. I'm not sure text messaging (where each message is relatively low-value and usually to friends who don't care) is the most effective media/platform for a service like this. Anyone have thoughts?

Re: Show HN: Miimic – Let your friends text for you

#14

Post by bignaj »

spartango wrote: post #12

An email version of this would be quite useful for team interactions with sensitive partners/clients/contacts.

I completely agree. IMO email is the correct platform for this service, not text messaging. I often perform this exact workflow manually by walking over to a colleague's desk: "Can you look over this email to before I send it?"

Re: Show HN: Miimic – Let your friends text for you

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Post by danvayn »

bignaj wrote: post #13

Is this text flirting for awkward people who can't come up with their own responses or is there another use case? I liked @spartango's idea of an email version for team interactions with sensitive partners/clients/contracts... but I can't see why anyone with even average social skills would use this. I'm not sure text messaging (where each message is relatively low-value and usually to friends who don't care) is the…

If it shows extended message history I could definitely see some use in it. there have been times when I wanted to share texts I sent to one person with another.

It might also be interesting in situations where you want to introduce soon-to-be friends momentarily -- making them exchange numbers so soon might be unnecessary.

Re: Show HN: Miimic – Let your friends text for you

#16

Post by [deleted] »

jchoudh wrote: post #5
diminish wrote: post #2

extreme scroll triggered animations make it impossible on my tablet to read much.. Edit: what's the use case, why? Who would use such an app, any use cases you think of?

Diminish, it's no secret that texting has become the primary and preferred channel for dating. The texts you send are the only thing that make or break you after you receive someone's phone number and it's obvious that some people are better at texting than others. Often times what you will see is young men and women giving their phones to their friends to text someone special for them. We hope to solve this by openi…

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Re: Show HN: Miimic – Let your friends text for you

#18

Post by blueflow »

The magnifying glass on the last panel has the same color like their background. The icons are very whitish and difficult to see.

Not sure if people would use this, i can imagine friends of mine asking me to 'help' in their conversations.

And i fear those 'was it really you?'-questions. Im not sure what kind of social consequences the usage brings.

Re: Show HN: Miimic – Let your friends text for you

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Post by learc83 »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #11
jchoudh wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Diminish, it's no secret that texting has become the primary and preferred channel for dating. The texts you send are the only thing that make or break you after you receive someone's phone number and it's obvious that some people are better at texting than others. Often times what you will see is young men and women giving their phones to their friends to text someone special for them. We hope to solve this by openi…

Interesting idea. Why not put your comment on the website somewhere? I scrolled through several screens of animations and still had no idea what your app did.

I agree with this suggestion. It wasn't immediately apparent why I'd want to use this, but upon reading the above reply it made complete sense.
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