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Say Hello on Minus Chat, share and meet new friends.

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The site tells me nothing about the app. "Share and meet new friends", okay well who are they and how does it match me to people? Can I chat with people I already know? How does this differ to all the other chat apps already out there?

Another candidate for "No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app"http://tommorris.org/posts/8070

Appreciate the response and we'll def work to improve our landing page, homepage to better showcase and explain our app! And thanks for the link to the article, it is very helpful :) For now I think our Google Play and App Store page will explain the app better with the app screenshots and description.

We have always focused on our website in the past and mobile is still fairly new for us so we're learning quickly. All feedback and suggestions are welcome!

- John@minus.com

Not only do I not really understand what the app is / why I should get it, I'm totally confused by the Pinterest homepage which seems to have nothing to do with meeting new people.

Sorry for the confusion! The mobile app for Minus is indeed different where users on Minus.com tend to share photos over the web and it's less about chatting and meeting new friends, however you can still share photos / chat on both mobile and the web.

We're also working to improve the experience on the website along with the mobile development.

Cheers!

I'm grossed out by the Male/Female symbols on the page. Are they necessary? What about the few people that don't identify as gender binary? Also isn't this just a cutesy version of Grindr?

So LINE (http://line.naver.jp/en/) for a more US-centric audience? What kind of plans do you guys have with this?

LINE is cool and trying to expand outside of Japen.

This is possibly the worst example of feature creep I've ever seen. What used to be a simple image host is now trying to be both Pinterest and Instagram at once.

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