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Show HN: Miimic – Let your friends text for you

85 pointsby jchoudhalmost 11 years ago

22 comments

siliconc0walmost 11 years ago
You should pivot to an &#x27;uber for conversations&#x27; where at any point you can tap a button, get billed $5, and have a professional screenwriter finish your conversation for you.<p>You could have &#x27;peak&#x27; rates trigger at night to satisfy demand for all the people scrambling to get laid.<p>Lots of unemployed screenwriters, lots of people wanting to get laid, that is a market waiting to happen.
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spartangoalmost 11 years ago
An email version of this would be quite useful for team interactions with sensitive partners&#x2F;clients&#x2F;contacts.
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toygalmost 11 years ago
You&#x27;ve just invented CaaS: &quot;Cyrano as a service&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what this says on the state of Western civilization, but it&#x27;s the sort of app that could easily be covered by mainstream newspapers, so you must be onto something. Good luck!
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bignajalmost 11 years ago
Is this text flirting for awkward people who can&#x27;t come up with their own responses or is there another use case? I liked @spartango&#x27;s idea of an <i>email</i> version for team interactions with sensitive partners&#x2F;clients&#x2F;contracts... but I can&#x27;t see why anyone with even average social skills would use this. I&#x27;m not sure text messaging (where each message is relatively low-value and usually to friends who don&#x27;t care) is the most effective media&#x2F;platform for a service like this. Anyone have thoughts?
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oftenwrongalmost 11 years ago
You should up the contrast on the up&#x2F;down arrows for users like me with a poor quality display. I missed them completely at first. They just looked like two white circular cutouts.
spjpgrdalmost 11 years ago
I could see executives with secretaries being a serious market that would pay for this service.
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GuiAalmost 11 years ago
And if your recipient uses the app as well, the two of you can talk to each other while not talking to each other! :)
dugganalmost 11 years ago
Friend has been asking me to build this for them for ages (unfortunately, I&#x27;m not a mobile app developer).<p>He&#x27;s pretty insightful when it comes to these sorts of things, the kind of &quot;idea guy&quot; that actually makes an excellent product designer. People want this app.<p>Thanks for saving me the hassle! (of future conversations about how I should build this, rather than actually building it - procrastination&#x27;s a killer).
diminishalmost 11 years ago
extreme scroll triggered animations make it impossible on my tablet to read much..<p>Edit: what&#x27;s the use case, why? Who would use such an app, any use cases you think of?
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stevewillowsalmost 11 years ago
All flirting jokes aside, this would be a fantastic service for communications within government and corporate environments.<p>For those in marketing, managing people on the street that are handing out flyers, promotions, etc from one number would be a fantastic asset.<p>For groups of friends who wholesale stuff on craigslist, having a single point of contact via text would also be great.<p>Nice concept.
blueflowalmost 11 years ago
The magnifying glass on the last panel has the same color like their background. The icons are very whitish and difficult to see.<p>Not sure if people would use this, i can imagine friends of mine asking me to &#x27;help&#x27; in their conversations.<p>And i fear those &#x27;was it really you?&#x27;-questions. Im not sure what kind of social consequences the usage brings.
misubaalmost 11 years ago
Relevant: the recently shut down Starpilot. <a href="http://xorph.com/starpilot" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xorph.com&#x2F;starpilot</a><p>An explanation: <a href="http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/digital-projection/Content?oid=10729671" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.portlandmercury.com&#x2F;portland&#x2F;digital-projection&#x2F;C...</a>
techaddict009almost 11 years ago
@OP can I use this way:<p>Set all my message to be served to specific contact. That contact can reply to all message?.<p>Use Case: My parents do not know to use mobile properly and many times they get Income Tax pin, etc ( IMP message) via SMS. And they come to me to reply them properly. Instead using your app I can do it from distance.
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meowfacealmost 11 years ago
I think this is a cool idea and maybe even something I&#x27;d use, but the landing page has what I find typical, cliche, sluggish load-on-scroll animations at the moment.
colinyoungalmost 11 years ago
Collaborative flirting! Love it
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paperkettlealmost 11 years ago
Also relevant but not really talked about on HN much: <a href="http://www.crowdpilot.me/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crowdpilot.me&#x2F;</a>
useflyeralmost 11 years ago
Also see <a href="http://www.wingflirt.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wingflirt.com</a> which also attempts this
paragaroraalmost 11 years ago
Tie up with Tinder. Way for people who get replies faster to earn money from those who don&#x27;t.
batemanesquealmost 11 years ago
got a couple of suggested improvements:<p>1. make &quot;Lie and Get Laid&quot; yr slogan<p>2. reëvaluate yr entire understanding of ethics&#x2F;communication&#x2F;human beings
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nnnnnialmost 11 years ago
Nintendo may not like the use of &quot;Mii&quot;...
rjurneyalmost 11 years ago
Applications in customer service, sales and CRM.
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evertonfulleralmost 11 years ago
How bizarre.