Most products are distracting and take more of my time which is why I'm most interested in Place Messaging (the ability to text messages business). TalkTo is awesome but frankly the app lacked soul and personality, something Path certainly has. @davemorin Place messaging hasn't launched yet but can you give us a peak into how it's going to work?

Place Messaging is super exciting. Esp in bringing online consumers into brick stores, the potential for a quick solution for the product locator problem is really compelling. Product Hunt alpha test for Place Messaging? ;) #dyingtotry

I've been a long time user of TalkTo. Path just announced its acquisition and release of Talk. Yo, @davemorin! Congrats. :)

This is absolutely amazing. TalkTo integration will be super interesting going forward. The quick reply use-cases are brilliant. Well polished. This is how you communicate a product update.

Speaking of super powers this goes way beyond a remote control of the world. To form meaningful connections we as humans want to talk to everything that we have a mental concept of. #mindblown

@davemorin imho it's fascinating to see that while communication is at the core of human desire the UX/interactions of messaging services is still broadly lacking even with the highly 'successful' ones like whatsapp/groupme etc. But it's really really bad when you take just one step away from them and look at apps where messaging is 'just a feature'. (eg we at @blossom_io could do way better here as well). the very few companies that 'get it': * slack — team communication/chat * intercom — b2b CRM SaaS platform * brandid — personal shopping assistant w/ chat as main UI * layer — messaging infrastructure/sdk

@davemorin Were there any specific things you learned from Path Messaging/Path 3 that drove you to break Talk out into its own app? Is part of the draw the ability to open APIs to Talk specifically without exposing the rest of Path to a developer community? I also wonder if Talk will also compete with Layer at some point in the future if both pursue the messaging platform opportunity that Apple's left wide open by not exposing an API for iMessages.

@__tosh exactly. As we started thinking through how to approach messaging more deeply we began to wonder: what if you could interact with anything through messaging?

@zackshapiro probably the best thoughts on the lessons learned and reasons for Multi App are captured here: http://www.wired.com/2014/06/pat...

I'm really interested to see how TalkTo adds to Path. Seems like such different apps. Always interesting to see a company make a big move like that.

I also think this is really smart of the Path team. They're messaging feature was gorgeous but buried behind too many taps. Will be cool to see it on it's own.

Nothing really seems new or particularly unique here. In fact it is nearly identical to every other messaging app out there. Why not focus on only business texting @davemorin?

@davemorin great strategy. But what is your thought on the argument that having multiple apps means lack of focus where you don't give any one enough time to grow?

I'd actually be really interested to know what the rest of the community here thinks on this point: that having multiple apps means lack of focus where you don't give any one enough time to grow? Or good way to experiment and see what clicks? Cc @rrhoover

Consumer to consumer chat is a crowded space. Though this is definitely a well done and polished app. What's new and notable is the ability to chat with businesses. I think that's brilliant. Super excited to give that feature a try!

Thanks @mulligan really appreciate it. Our thought was that the places in your life are deeply intertwined with your personal relationships. After work, you head out to dinner with family and friends, being able to get a reservation quickly in real time just like sending a text seemed like it would save people time and give that time to hanging out in person.

@davemorin can we assume TalkTo will get folded into Path Talk? I stepped away from Path but this would be an offering to bring me and probably many others back. Hope this move works out.

@davemorin Super excited about this! And I love how you don't leave the status and navbar black on Android, unlike 99.999% of apps. It looks gorgeous on Nexus 5.

@adamevers we agree. We think the intersection of messaging and commerce is a huge opportunity, and mostly dark to the Internet right now. We do plan on providing a variety of interesting APIs here as well.

@mbavio criticism is an important part of the creative process. In this case, this only offers one side of the spectrum of opinion on this debate. If you talk to product people in Asia they will argue that serving as many use cases as possible in a messaging app leads to the most engagement per day. They then try hard to simplify the workflows so that the user has access to many powerful use cases. Then, pursue continuous improvement of a complex system. The prevailing opinion in America is that serving a single use case is the right direction. For the most part, the American opinion is also that "innovation" equals new content formats. My thoughts on innovation in social in general are here if you are interested: https://medium.com/design-philos...