Cloe

Yesterday morning I found this in my mailbox: Curious, I texted "Cloe". Here's our correspondence: First off, great marketing. Secondly, what a delightful experience. Cloe spoke personably and did enough research to know that I'm a UofO graduate and the Ducks were playing later that night. Some people might find that creepy but I've given up on privacy. Cloe is remincent of ChaCha, a human-powered, SMS-based search engine before smartphones were ubiquitous. Cloe is also similar to Ethan (cc @gliechtenstein) but without the friction of needing to download yet another app (although this also comes with other downsides). Cloe is an invisible app, which @kylebrussell and I have chatted about (we both still need to write about this), in which the the product itself is embedded within existing interfaces (in the case SMS/iMessage). That said, I'm curious to learn more about Cloe and the makers' plans to turn it into a scaleable business (if that's the goal).

whoa. how are they sending via iMessage ?! this most not be done programmatically.

Hey everybody, Wanted to introduce myself, I am one of the co-founders of Cloe. Hope everyone is enjoying the service, we've been absolutely swamped lately, but we're chugging along! We have a wait list at www.meetcloe.co and feel free to watch the two videos to get a better feel for what we do!