Show HN: Textter, Live letter-by-letter messaging for iOS

Putting that aside, I think this is really nifty. Your marketing really should target the fact that people can respond before you've finished typing. That can probably save 50% of keystrokes in a lot of cases, which gives your product a concrete leg up over others.

Nice launch, good luck.

How many times have you written something, and then decided not to send it in favor of something better suited for the situation (or even nothing at all) ?

I think the technology behind this is probably pretty cool, but I don't wan't anybody seeing how big a mess I make when I type. I'm a terrible typist.

[I already edited this post twice, I'm glad nobody got to see me do type this live]

And patent pending? I remember ICQ, there have been other services mentioned, and I'm sure 100's if not 1000's of other applications in the past have done this so called 'live messaging'... so good luck with the patent ;)

There is even a wikipedia page on it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_text

Not so sure about that. 98% of text message being read within minutes of receipt suggests that the existing system works just fine, to me. The page doesn't really ever seem to address why I would want this.

A less relevant aside:

50% of American Teens send 50 text messages or more per day

Not sure why this is on the home page and not the investors page. Why do I, prospective user, care?

You'll need JS to accomplish what you're trying to accomplish there. You've already got jQuery on the page so you may as well use the `.hover` method to toggle a `hover` class on the div and replace the pseudo-selector in your CSS with that class.

Something like,

    $('#u3397').hover(function () {
      $(this).addClass('hover');
    }, function () {
      $(this).removeClass('hover');
    });

It also seems like it might be problematic to go through a history of messages as replies may be incomplete due to temporal context which I personally find hard to remember when just reading plain text.

I do see the appeal. There's something very informal and personal about it.

I think the problem nowadays is that people are so used to multitasking they have ingrained habits to just switch out to another task while waiting for a reply.

WATHC OUT GUYZZZ THIS IS GONNA CHANGE MESSAGINF FOREVAR!!1