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Peach — Keep up with friends and be yourself 🍑
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I compare Peach to status updates people used to make on Facebook (and how some people use Twitter). Interesting product, not much value proposition yet but it's fun to update your friends and keep track of what you do. Can't wait to see what their next steps are!
Also add me, I'm @tiff
@tzhongg thought the same thing at first, but like I said in my comment above the magic words are a big one. I definitely see a decent amount of possibilities. Like most (new) social networks, I'm a bit iffy but enjoying this so far. Ultimately depends on how active my network is on it which will determine my usage.
@imcatnoone @tiffany_hardin I do not think it will find a place on our home screen as a new social app. I believe it will have to replace a bunch of trending apps to carve a niche for itself. Its capitalizing on mainstream behaviors/features of various other apps. Takes the sliding interface from Snapchat and Spontaneity from Twitter. Facilitates both short and long form content. Makes the Slack commands much better. Has an Instagram-like feel for pic sharing/uploading. It has some obvious pain points like lack of integrations with FB, discovery issue, fake accounts etc. I believe its probably on their short term roadmap. I really like the concept. Very thoughtful and its kind of breaking out of the bay area which is known for false positives whenever a new thing pops up. Enough ranting. I write a lot about 🍑 on 🍑. Username - @sarthakgh 😄😄
Magic words are the interesting differentiator here — kind of like slash commands in Slack or @mentions in Telegram/HipChat.
@chrismessina I downloaded this last night after seeing it on @dtrihn's Snapchat. Curious to play with it. Love the branding. 🍑
Absolutely love the concept of and possibilities that come with magic words. Huge differentiator to every other social platform.
Not to mention the super friendly copy and ease of use. Only downside is that I can't use social networks to find friends and it also isn't letting me scan my address book.
Regardless, I'm looking forward to continuing using it and seeing how it fits into my day to day with friends.
Oh and I claimed the username @cat — what a score! That has never happened as far as I can recall unless it was my own product. Add me! 🎉
@imcatnoone you should be able to scan your address book for friends... are you having issues with it? hit us up at support@peach.cool
@imcatnoone Love the onboarding - guides you through stepwise and you can act on everything that you get taught. Permissions are done well, except the push notifications - which comes up straight away without warning (sigh, why do you people still do this?) but otherwise good example to review for other folks looking to improve their user onboarding.
Many are comparing 🍑 to Snapchat and Twitter. Here are a few quick observations on what makes it unique:
1) Users are incentivized to post more often to bump their profile to the top of their friends' feed.
2) Unlike Twitter, no one person can spam your feed (as @joshconstine noted on Twitter). Each post is grouped with your profile.
3) Similar to Snapchat, you must friend someone to see their feed, with exception to the friends of friends feed.
4) Unlike Snapchat, you can find new people in the friends of friends feed, although a chronological list probably isn't the best sorting.
5) The more friends you have, the further your posts spread via the friends of friends feed.
We've been having fun with the @ProductHunt 🍑 account, seeing as much/sometimes more engagement than on Twitter, although anything new often attracts more attention at first.
Looks cool 😄 claimed my dream username @ad ,also my first choice of gif went really well with the follow up onboarding copy...having problems finding friends with my address book, I have a non us phone number and everytime trying to add it when requested I get a "something went wrong" kind of error 😟
@adrianleb They have a beta version with a fix. I just got access and it works!
I guess you can join the beta too if you contact the Peach team at hello@peach.cool 📧😊
Dang, no droid support. Seems cool, kind of like snapchat stories but without being constrained to needing a photo or video backdrop for updates. Will play with it when I get the chance.
@whereskap @thatmattgardner time frame? Have Beta? We will gladly test for you.
Add me if you like theappguy . It took 15 minutes to figure out magic words. I did something unusual, I hit the help button in the app. It gave me all the magic words to enter. Now I 'GET IT'. Just waiting on a few friend requests to see if it'll be useful for networking. An auto add for (1st) Product Hunt followers (2nd) Linkedin connections and (3rd) Twitter followers would be awesome
I've been an active user since the first night, but I think the only issue is discovery. Would love to have a better way to connect with people that might not be as easy to find on noiser networks. The suggestion of connecting Product Hunt/LinkedIn/Twitter types would be a good thing, but I can understand wanting to create a distinct network, it's just the slower the ability to create the network and the less engagement, the fewer reason I have to post.
Why post first to empty feed rather than find friends, to me it wasn't clear where / how to add friends. Just an observation :)
Def digging this app. I feel like people are listening + I love the secret words. Interesting that you don't really have a profile or follower count (similar to snapchat) do you guys think that's a new thing where you build social equity without a storefront to show it off?
🍑🍑🍑 : @sabaSedighi
Ps. Wish I could have gotten Saba, I thought my name was unique lol
Anyone else having issues setting up an account? I keep getting an error message when trying to create a username/login.
@augustnoble yeah me to. Wondering if it's cause I'm in Canada. But that doesn't make a ton of sense. Maybe the PH hug has squished them.
@dhof the camera effects are really interesting but can you share any reasoning behind square only, and the lack of double tap to zoom? Both seem like Instagram influences, wondering with so much attention here why those choices were made.
So Mashable was obsessed with this until we think our tweets about it killed it. But it's fun. I'm @christina obvs
@film_girl did you guys write an article about it? Would love to know what you think in more details...
I was sent a 3 number code instead of a 4 number code so I had to tap resend code before I could verify my phone number. Seems like a bug
Peach brings me back to the glory days of AOL Instant Messenger. They're like away messages, but you can see a history, and they're enriched w/ Magic Words. Can't wait to see where this one goes.
Also, I'm @adamokane on there!
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