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Re: Beeper acquired by Automattic

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Post by BobaFloutist »

garbageman wrote: post #131
duxup wrote: post #125

>If you haven’t heard of Beeper before, welcome! We make a universal chat app – one app to send and receive messages on 14 different chat networks. I feel a little exhausted just thinking about needing to be on 14 different chat networks. What are people using that for? Marketing / customer service type chat stuff across networks?

Not a user but I imagine it's like the blackberry model where texts, messenger, whatsapp, and whatever else all go to the same inbox rather than having to check 40 different apps. I really wish that idea would come back.

I wish that idea came back with some sort of iron hard contract protecting user data in perpetuity.

Re: Beeper acquired by Automattic

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Post by leros »

duxup wrote: post #125

>If you haven’t heard of Beeper before, welcome! We make a universal chat app – one app to send and receive messages on 14 different chat networks. I feel a little exhausted just thinking about needing to be on 14 different chat networks. What are people using that for? Marketing / customer service type chat stuff across networks?

It's exhausting having different apps.

I use SMS for talking to friends in the US. I use WhatsApp for talking to most international people. I use Telegram to talk to Australians. I use Line to talk to some people in Asia.

Re: Beeper acquired by Automattic

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Post by batuhanicoz »

bluish29 wrote: post #8
Belphemur wrote: post #5

I wonder if the plan is to merge Beeper and Texts.com. They both look verify similar in their features. Maybe texts.com for the Apple Ecosystem and Beeper for the Android one ? After all, Beeper just released their new version of the app for Android.

Beeper is cross platform. They have an app for iOS and Mac.

Both of our apps are cross-platform. Both Texts and Beeper are available on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Texts for iOS is in public beta, you can join the TestFlight: https://texts.com/install/ios

Re: Beeper acquired by Automattic

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Post by croes »

duxup wrote: post #125

>If you haven’t heard of Beeper before, welcome! We make a universal chat app – one app to send and receive messages on 14 different chat networks. I feel a little exhausted just thinking about needing to be on 14 different chat networks. What are people using that for? Marketing / customer service type chat stuff across networks?

I think it's about connecting people on 14 different chat networks not a single user on 14 networks?

Re: Beeper acquired by Automattic

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Post by batuhanicoz »

Belphemur wrote: post #5

I wonder if the plan is to merge Beeper and Texts.com. They both look verify similar in their features. Maybe texts.com for the Apple Ecosystem and Beeper for the Android one ? After all, Beeper just released their new version of the app for Android.

Both Texts and Beeper are in active development while we work hard behind the scenes to combine the best parts of both under the Beeper brand.

So we'll only have Beeper on every platform.

Re: Beeper acquired by Automattic

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Post by RobotToaster »

PaulHoule wrote: post #68
markx2 wrote: post #57

"Matt, Automattic’s CEO, and I have known each other for years. He was an early user, supporter and investor in Beeper. " Beeper were not important enough to be listed: https://audrey.co/ "Our privacy policy and terms of service remain the same, though they may change in the future." Reminder: wordpress.com shares data with 851 other companies.

How does Automattic make money? Do they get paid to look the other way when people’s Wordpress blogs get spammed by SEO links?

They run a proprietary SaaS called jetpack that injects a lot of tracking into otherwise self hosted wordpress blogs.

Re: Beeper acquired by Automattic

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Post by rmccue »

jamesmunns wrote: post #2

I really like Beeper, and congrats to them for getting acquired, but my first reaction is "aw damn how long until the parts I love about Beeper get incredible journey'd away". The new android app is really good, the desktop app has always been a step up from other Element apps I've used (it is a distant fork, these days), I don't have iMessage, but it works great with Matrix and Signal and WhatsApp a ton of other "ra…

Automattic very rarely shuts down any products they acquire, so I'd certainly be less concerned with them as the buyer compared to another company. (Their failure mode for acquisitions tends to be underresourcing them and letting them stagnate, not actually shutting them down.)

Re: Beeper acquired by Automattic

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Post by rmccue »

ein0p wrote: post #66

How does Automattic even survive and remain profitable (?) nowadays? What’s the niche?

Automattic is primarily four core businesses:

1. WordPress.com - Hosted SaaS for building websites. Very cheap to run, includes ads on free sites, and they sell users upgrades like custom domains or removing ads from their sites.

2. Jetpack - Services for self-hosted WordPress sites, like backups, social media integration, image CDN, antispam - mostly paid services, again very cheap to run.

3. WooCommerce - Open source ecommerce service. They sell add-ons like payment gateways, and have their own with a percentage fee of each transaction.

4. WPVIP - Enterprise and high-scale hosting service. Expensive ($25k/yr+) but worth it for large companies who run their business off it, like newsrooms and marketing sites.

To my knowledge, they're each independently profitable. Automattic also has a lot of additional smaller services which support these, and various Other Bets.

(I don't work at Automattic, but have many friends there.)

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