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Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

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Re: Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

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The app started as a simple prototype in our office of small startup studio. We discovered super fun nature of anonymous ephemeral messaging, so decided to give it a try. We got about 10K organic installs in 1 week. So people sure miss something in anonymous messaging field. Actually we aim to acquire as more as possible Secret`s ex-users - we believe that there are at least 10M of people looking for a new tool to en…

Just curious where you got the 10 million number?

Re: Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

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post #18

There's a similar app [0] that's so incredibly popular at universities here in Germany right now that even mainstream media wrote about it already. I'm actually surprised how good the moderation works there, messages that gather more than 5 downvotes are immediately removed so the self-moderation works quite well. How are you dealing with that (I don't see any up/downvote/report buttons)? [0] https://jodel-app.com/

Jodel looks like a clone of Yik Yak.

Indeed, they were founded at the same time though and it was previously known as TellM.

Re: Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

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post #18

There's a similar app [0] that's so incredibly popular at universities here in Germany right now that even mainstream media wrote about it already. I'm actually surprised how good the moderation works there, messages that gather more than 5 downvotes are immediately removed so the self-moderation works quite well. How are you dealing with that (I don't see any up/downvote/report buttons)? [0] https://jodel-app.com/

If you swipe left on the message in the list you get "mute" option. Then you can mute it not to get notifications on the updates or report the message. For now when reported message is reviewed by our team.

Re: Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

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- We are not responsible for the information you can receive or send via Nod App. Our users are free to share any kind of messages. We ask you to stay polite and don’t be offensive or do harm to anybody. Really ? Anonymous texting with no limits on message content and you (a) expect people to stay polite, and (b) want to denounce all responsibility ? Sure (b) is achievable (possibly) legally by having a huge disclaim…

We understand all the challenges, it's up to users to bully or not. But still this can be a lot of fun. There already is opportunity to "mute" or "report" a message.

Please learn from Secret. There are some things you should choose not to build. This is one.

Re: Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

#26

The background animation is beautiful though I'm not a fan of scroll hijacking.

I didn't even realise you were supposed to scroll until I eventually saw the tiny vertically-aligned text saying "Scroll down to see more" - when will they learn?
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