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

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Post by tdaltonc »

jchoudh wrote: post #22
siliconc0w wrote: post #21

You should pivot to an 'uber for conversations' where at any point you can tap a button, get billed $5, and have a professional screenwriter finish your conversation for you. You could have 'peak' rates trigger at night to satisfy demand for all the people scrambling to get laid. Lots of unemployed screenwriters, lots of people wanting to get laid, that is a market waiting to happen.

This is precisely our target state vision and where we are making significant progress in development (including an innovative pricing strategy). We would love to talk if you're interested, please feel free to email us at miimicteam@gmail.com

How would you feel if I signed up to write for your 'uber for conversations' and build AI to write on my behalf? I'm not being glib, I would actually do that, and I want to know if you'd be cool with it.

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

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Post by cinquemb »

Pacabel wrote: post #33
jchoudh wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if he was, we aren't :) Thanks!

If anyone ever pulled crap like that on me during a conversation, I would be done with that person forever. I wouldn't care who he or she was. If somebody is disrespectful enough to engage in behavior as pathetic as that, then I want nothing to do with that person. Maybe "hipsters" would be fine with such shabby treatment, but I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking it's an extremely distasteful thing to do to somebody yo…

>If anyone ever pulled crap like that on me during a conversation, I would be done with that person forever. I wouldn't care who he or she was.

Assuming one would find out about such, which is plausible, but so is the opposite. I can even imagine such a system being engineered to lower such chances of the recipient being rendered unable to discern such messages from current situations where people ask friends nearby in person or over the phone.

It's amazing to watch what people/computers are able to do that can challenge the social constructs that are ingrained into us that some of us have come to accept as how things should be, only to be collectively reminded from time to time of how such systems are constructed on shifting sands in the scheme of things.

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

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Post by siliconc0w »

sergiotapia wrote: post #23
jchoudh wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is precisely our target state vision and where we are making significant progress in development (including an innovative pricing strategy). We would love to talk if you're interested, please feel free to email us at miimicteam@gmail.com

I'm not entirely sure but I am pretty certain siliconc0w was being sarcastic...

I can actually be hired to throw sarcastic comments at your product and or idea for as little as just 99 cents per message.

In addition to offering 'hired guns' users could get suggestions automatically mined from other users with highly rated replies (similar to A.L.I.C.E) . The UI could be mass effect style with an array of choices:

I.e

T: what are you up to

derivative conversation detected! (read in a protoss voice)

Y:

   nothing u? (swipe left)

   busy go away (swipe right)

   returning video tapes (swipe up)

   robbing a bank (swipe down)

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

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Post by gcr »

jchoudh wrote: post #4
colinyoung wrote: post #3

Collaborative flirting! Love it

Exactly. Given that texting has become the primary channel for flirting, we feel that making this a collaborative effort makes it more fun for everyone. Thanks for your comment!

Primary channel for flirting?

When did that happen?

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

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Post by duggan »

Friend has been asking me to build this for them for ages (unfortunately, I'm not a mobile app developer).

He's pretty insightful when it comes to these sorts of things, the kind of "idea guy" that actually makes an excellent product designer. People want this app.

Thanks for saving me the hassle! (of future conversations about how I should build this, rather than actually building it - procrastination's a killer).

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

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Post by batemanesque »

jchoudh wrote: post #4
colinyoung wrote: post #3

Collaborative flirting! Love it

Exactly. Given that texting has become the primary channel for flirting, we feel that making this a collaborative effort makes it more fun for everyone. Thanks for your comment!

does "everyone" include the prospective date on the receiving end of behavior that violates basic social norms & assumptions?
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