Show HN: re:me keeps track of unresponded texts

Hey Guys,

I wanted to hear your feedback on this startup I have. I just launched our product about a week ago, and it is called re:me. Right now you are busy, you could be in a business meeting or perhaps in a class. You receive a text message, read it, and make a mental note to respond later. Several hours go by and the inevitable happens, you forget. This could be benign, like the girlfriend or boyfriend that texts you a lot, or it could be a client.

So re:me seeks to solve this problem. re:me builds a list of messages that you have not responded to yet. It works with your native text messaging application, so that you don't have to change your habits. As you respond to people, the messages get cleared from your re:me list. By shifting the focus away from whether a message has been read or not, and putting the focus on what you need to do next, re:me will help make sure that your most important people are never forgotten again.

Right now re:me works with only SMS on the Android platform and we are the only SMS management tool in the Google Play store. However, moving forward, re:me will integrate email, social network mailboxes and phone call tracking. With this, it won't be just a casual program, but rather, a message handling platform for professionals whose livelihood depends on managing their communications, people such as consultants and independent contractors.

I'm very much interested in hearing feedback from you guys.

Yevgeny Chertov

Since you asked for feedback, I have two small points:

1. It's "seamless" as in "without seams". "Seemless" isn't a word.

2. If your major design insight is to display the number of unreplied messages instead of the number of unread ones, what happens to your business if the native Android and iOS apps start doing that?

I watched the video, but it's not for me:

1. I can use mark-as-unread (or flag e-mail messages, I don't see the use of flags when you can mark as unread but whatever)

2. I cannot see how this would actually work. I mean, do you support Symbian? All applications that use any kind of messaging on Symbian? Does it integrate with the OS; Whatsapp; Nimbuzz? Pidgin on Linux? This is edging impossibility to do.

3. If I can't mark as unread or am too lazy to, I leave the application opened. Edit: Oh but most smartphone apps are always left running in the background, then this would be harder. I prefer an OS which closes an application when I close it. /edit

The initiative is pretty okay and I like the website. It just won't work for everyone (because of #2) and especially not for me (#1 and #3).

Was just thinking about something like this the other day when I forgot to respond to a Facebook post on my wall. I've got too many "inboxes" to keep track of, so an integrated thing like you're proposing could be handy.

I would look into hiring a freelance copywriter. There's a couple of spelling and grammar mistakes ("you have not respondED to", "seAmlessly"), and a lot of the wording is not idiomatic English.

I really like the idea, and the site design/typography, but it's gotta be backed up by good copy.

How will I prevent it from showing me messages that I have no intention of replying to?

For instance, SMS spam, or advertising and informational messages from my network provider ("your latest bill is ready to view"). I don't reply to these - from your description, it seems like they'd stay as notifications of unresponded messages indefinitely.

I was just thinking yesterday I need this feature for email. I got a busy cofounder who forgets to answer emails sometimes so I'd like to set it up so it sends a digest of all the emails he hasn't answered each morning from the day before. That'll teach em!

Just installed it. Can't really give feedback until I get some texts, but I will say that if I end up using this app regularly, I'll want an option to pay to get rid of ads.

No iOS APP? WHAT!