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peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

I am just a person who loves to communicate. If I write something I acknoledge someone is taking the time to read what I worked on. Not only are they reading it, but they are thinking about it, expressing their opinion, and giving their feedback.

It would be nothing short of a sin to not show my gratitude to everyone who shares their valuable time with me.

I respect your opinion and you have every write to feel the way you do. With that being said, responding is something I want to do.

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Right! :)

A face-to-face conversation would be entirly different, but that's the beauty of the internet right?!

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

I couldn't agree more. Honestly we are so early in development, we don't know what we are going to do for data collection, but there are a few things we are certain of. - Your messages will be encrypted (end-to-end.) - We will never spy on or store any of your conversations or media. - No state survailence.

As for ads, we aren't entirely sure. We could make the app 99 cents and have no ads, or we could have a few ads or maybe both. I am not sure yet.

Either way, I really appreciate the feedback and would love to hear if you had any more suggestions!

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Very true, when you are sending someone a message you are hiding behind a screen. Instead of an instant, 'the first thing that comes to your head' kind of response, it is edited and refined. It certinly is not the same as face-to-face communication.

While this is true, I feel it is also true that people are scared of face-to-face communication. Hell I couldn't take to a girl face to face until high school and even then I struggled, but truth be told - I could text like a boss.

Whether it hurt real communication or not is a debate, but either way messaging is going to happen.

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

I can see how that would be beneficial. I am just trying to put it all together into an app.

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

I'll have to check it out! Thanks for sharing. :)

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Haha that is hilarious, but honestly - I have around 3k unread emails too (I keep it up to date now, but these accumulated years ago!)

There is no doubt, people are going to struggle heavily to catch on to messaging. People seem to just now be getting social media (which is why it is dying) and now they have to adjst to messaging.

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Great questions, I love it!

Instagram and Snapchat are out for the first round. The workaround is going to be too great, so those will come in version 2 as we scale our dev efforts. FB Messenger is the one we are going to put our effort into and work around the API. We will have the bare bones to begin, very basic photo and video options. The basic idea for us is to get to a minimal viable product, see if what we are doing makes sense, and then either grow from there or pivot.

There is no doubt at some point we will get a cease and desist, much like Disa did. We are full aware there will be a day when that happens. At that point, we will discontinue their serves and continue using the other ones. The goal for us is to eventually be our own standalone product.

The real problem people are running into is app overload. It isn;t just messaging, but rather apps in general. By unifying messaging first, we can move on to unifying the next thing from there and eventually having one big super app!

Thanks for your questions and feedback, they are honestly super helpful for me to talk through.

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Whoops! That last update didn't work out so well.

Thanks for the feedback, I just updated it now! :)

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Thanks for the comments and upvotes everyone! It was pretty cool to be featured on the front page of Hacker News! :)

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

I do! :)

Feedback is really important to me. I truly enjoy communicating with people. I gain something from every single conversation I have.

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

I myself have always been an iOS guy, but I can understand your pain from the transition from 7 to 8!

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Great point, I am not sure we can get to the point where we can encompass ever single scenario, but maybe. Group chats are something I have had a problem thinking through. At the moment, it is the number one thing on my list to find a solution for!

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Wow great insights. I agree I have never used a unification app that executed, but that is exactly what we are aiming for. Job because it has never been done does not mean it can't be. By doing things like talking to people on here, it is my goal to be nothing like anything any of the other apps tried to do.

I agree with what you said about Tweetdeck, but what we are trying to do is more of a Tweetdeck / Hootsuite hybrid.

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

I am open to any and all feedback, so I am not offended at all friend!

To be honest, I am not necessarily asking for you to care about what I am doing. What I am looking for is constructive feedback, which you provided me in your comment, so thank you!

What makes us different is we are not only going to unify, but also provide native messaging through our app. For this reason, we will introduce features that set us apart solely for being a native messaging app.

I agree email is basically useless at this point. Later down the road, we do have plans to have our app help in the overthrowing of email and eventually replacing it with messaging. You can read more about that here if you would like - https://artplusmarketing.com/can-messaging-replace-email-a83...

Some apps we definitely won't be able to integrate with. We will need to start lean and work from there meaning only having a handful of integrations to begin. From there we will be able to get a bigger dev team and work around API limitations.

I really apprecaite you responding and all of your feedback!

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Haha I wish it were that simple. I alone use over 10 messaging apps. They all serve a different purpose. For example I use WhatsApp to talk to my wife and friends. I use Slack to communicate with my team. I use Intercom to chat live with customers. I use email to correspond with vendors. Not to mention all of the messages I check across social media every day. If nothing else, this app will be a lifesaver for me! :)

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

In the end, when it is all said and done - we will be very similar to WeChat, but not the same. The rest of the world has needed an app like WeChat, but fits with western culture. I am hesitant to say we aspire to be similar, but in the end it is a similar concept.

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Thanks for the honest feedback. We fully realize this has been attempted before, but we feel as though we can execute on it. We are in the early stages, but development is going along smoothly. We have our first integration completed and now are going to power through a few more to get to beta.

I 100% accept your challenge! :)

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

BB10 seriously rocks! There are some functionality things I have had people tell me could be improved.

Here is what they said:

Aside from a few janky integrations caused by BB10 emulating Android for done apps, the hub in BB10 was pretty much flawless. BlackBerry are way underrated for the attention they put into UI/UX, especially when it comes to productivity. The same can’t be said for the BlackBerry hub on Android, it’s a long way from the polish of its BB10 counterpart.

My main gripe with the Android version is that for anything other than email, it basically serves as a second notification area; pressing a twitter notification in the hub, for instance, just opens the Twitter app. This is pretty redundant given that Android already has perfectly reasonable notification area. So much so that I’ve removed everything but my email accounts from the BlackBerry hub on Android, and now use it simply as an email client. I will say that it’s by far the best email client I’ve used in Android, and I’ve tried most of them.

For the BlackBerry hub, or UNUM, to truly fulfill its promise, the third party integrations need be to be self-contained (don’t just open another app for me) and feature rich enough to negate the need for me to keep the standard client installed (or at least rich enough for me to turn off notifications on the standard client).

So the real challenge here becomes creating a UI/UX that is consistent across your app but also consistent with the wide variation of UIs/UXs across the third party apps you integrate with.

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

For anyone not interested in reading the whole article, essentially I am building an app which will combine all forms of communication into one simple application. This will help people digest and send messages / emails from one central location.

I am currently in the early stages of development for my unified messaging platform, which I have named UNUM messenger. I plan to launch UNUM messenger in March of 2017 as a Beta. If you would like to be notified when UNUM messenger launches, you can sign up here - http://www.unummessenger.com

More than anything, I am looking for feedback on what people would want to see on an app like this. Feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Thanks! Peter

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Thanks for the feedback! We are early in development, so every little feedback helps us with the direction we take. We will definitely take your feedback into consideration. This messaging hub we are creating should be able to do all of the things you previously loved about your windows phone!

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

So true, I love it! We live in a connected world.

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

True! In the book 'The Lean Startup' by Eric Ries, he actually had the same idea for a growth strategy for his messaging platform IMVU. It is not a new concept.

The idea is this breaks down the barrier to entry to start incorporating multiple unifications. For example, we start with messaging and next we unify emails. From there we unify live streaming, and then something else. I am not saying these are the things we are going to go on to unify, but that is the concept.

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Thanks for sharing my other article! I have been on a bit of a writing tear lately. Essentially I am writing to get feedback from people on the product I am developing and to do so, I am writing content. I figured if people read my articles centered around messaging, they would be interested telling me what they would want to see in a messaging app!

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Thanks for the input. I have recently tried migrating away from GoDaddy, but they seem to be holding on tight to my domain! It should be fully functional in the next few days.

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Dreams can become reality right? :)

peterschroederon Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Great point. This isn't a problem ever single person is having. Aside from the unified feature, we will have a native messaging feature as well. The long-term goal is to introduce a desktop version and then from there work towards some other initiatives we have.

After unifying messaging, we want to continue to unify other functionalities, to work toward a sort of 'super app'. It starts with messaging and will evolve from there.