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Re: Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

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So, like Salut except less anonymous because it sends your physical location to a central server?

Please don't post comments that are dismissive of new work in this way. It's fine to ask a genuine question, but not to make a dismissive swipe in the form of a question.

Re: Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

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We use APNS

What do you do with the users' location history on the server side? (Obviously you see it to be able to know who to send push notifications to...) Is it stored? Logged inadvertently? Intentionally archived? Intentionally purged?

We don’t store users location history. User's device only sends its geolocation and we use it simultaneously under messaging. All geolocations are erased by newer ones.

Re: Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

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How do you ensure the users are anonymous? Tor, Gnunet or some similar network? Or did you make your own mixing network?

there are no authorisation, phone number verification or fb login - only user's device ID

That does not sound anonymous at all, if you know the device ID, you are totally trackable. Maybe change your pitch to "pseudonymous"? Anonymity is important and this is not actual anonymity.

Re: Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

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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.

Secret was an awesome app, it has not only inappropriate content but a lot of cool jokes, stories, news etc. It was closed not because people haven't used it but because it went not the way founders wanted. We don't have over expectations in the field.

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?

Press said Secret had 10-15 millions of active users

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…

After installation I swipe down and the app reboots my iPhone 6+ :)

It's impressive that you can get 10K organic installs in 1 week! Are there any trick/hack that other app makers can learn from it?

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…

No Android version?

Second the Android request.
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