Postmodern. — Anonymous, short, ephemeral conversations with others

wild concept, love it @metabright! Some ideas - audio notes instead of text? - conversation duration is kind of hard to grok in an async exchange - how about number of replies as a constraint?

Just used the app and let me just say, you have a lifelong user in me. I absolutely love it. The design is fluid and responsive. The general idea works beautifully well. I am eager to see how it scales. In future I’d like to see if the person who posed the question is online, away or will be back in 5mins.

This is one of those "I had this exact idea and never pulled the trigger" moments. Congrats on this. Looks awesome and excited to check it out.

Really enjoying the app so far. I’m a little confused on a couple things: What’s the number below “you.”? What is the down arrow on the snippets page? On thing that I’d personally like to see, although probably not part of the plan, is to chime in on conversations actively perhaps? Idk, I’d just like to see what some other people are saying about the topic at hand I think. 🤷‍♂️ Little thing is the green is also a little too harsh on my eyes… but that’s subjective. Overall, simple, great product!

Nice idea. I understand that the ?makers want to keep the product as minimal as possible at the beginning but I'd love to see the following features added: - Web app version (I personally don't like typing on a smartphone). - Audio conversations. - Ability to filter conversations by language.

Hey everyone — Postmodern is a mobile app designed for ephemeral, one-on-one, anonymous conversations. Here’s how it works: * Create an account with just a phone number. (Needed to manage abuse.) * Respond to a Prompt or create your own. Prompts are topics of conversation. Each Prompt is active for 24 hours. * When you respond to a Prompt, you immediately get dropped in a private conversation with the Prompt author * Conversations are timed and last between 5 and 60 minutes (depending on how long the Prompt author chooses) * When time expires, the conversation is locked forever * If you stumble on an insight during a conversation, you can create a Snippet — a shareable chunk of conversation visible to the community It’s critical that we have the ability to intellectually explore without fear of social ramifications. Whether we seek to explore our own minds, or the structures of our society, we need communication tools that allow us to peel away the pollutants to our thought. There is certainly occasional utility in aligning our online personas with our offline person. (I worked on the team that built Google+ and supported the push to use Real Names.) But the early experimentation and incubation of ideas is incompatible with public engagement. The aim of Postmodern is to offer an environment stripped clean of the baggage that can make it hard to think clearly. No pictures, no profiles (even pseudonyms), no status, no crowds. Just two brains bouncing off of each other exploring the void. And for the literary among you… Don DeLillo is one of my favorite authors; his novels inspired this double entendre project. Pinning down the nature of postmodernism is like trying to use language to describe the divine. For me, DeLillo’s words come the closest to capturing the postmodern essence. The intent of this project is to explore the nature of postmodernism in a remarkably postmodern way. I hope you enjoy.

This is looks like an amazing concept. One application if this can be in solving mental health issues. People often want someone to share and being anonymous will surely help. Need to see how abuse management works in the system though. In all a great product.

Wow this is really cool, is there a way for users to continue conversations past the specified time or to reignite conversations?

I like the concept. Sometimes we need somebody that we don't know and more importantly do not know us. Choosing the conversation time sounds great too.

What is missing is some form of filters, or a way of finding people with similar interests. Cool app though.

The idea is great. Wanted to try it, but didn’t receive a message with verification number. Does it work now only for the US numbers? I tried with a phone number from Latvia 😊

I believe if more people found this app,it could be the next best thing, because this is beneficial for the human mind and can lead to either deep or dull conversations. Either way,you learn something. I can clearly see how addictive this can be.

Love this, a few questions: * Are you adding E2E? * Are the phone numbers currently encrypted at rest in Firebase? * Do you disable screenshots? * Where are your servers hosted?

I like the idea. Useful for sure. You might think of targeting the English language learning market. Speak with someone to learn English based on your fluency level and interest. It's my field.

It's like that time, when you rode on the train with a complete stranger before internet was so popular. You were more willing to share intimate information and discuss topics, which you won't normally discuss, because chances, that you'll meet again are probably zero. This app is like a digital version of this conversation.

Do you, does someone at your end or connected to your end, record or store conversations? Specifically, the content of conversations? Does, or can, Firebase collect, record, store the content of conversations? (I read https://postmodern.app/privacy )

Already one of my favorite apps. The idea is amazing and counts with questions that we always have in mind but not always are comfortable to share with, so the discussions are always intelligent and respectful.

a much needed tool

I would love this. I love short convos with people.

super cool product, would love to see the scalability!