Flipchat

Maker

Launching soon!

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Most people who want to learn a new language quit because it is not fun. With Flipchat you can learn a language by doing what you like to do: chatting with your friends.

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2yr ago

Gregg Berretta

Oscar, before I can figure out whether or not your app supports the language that I'm interested in, I need to sign up, provide my phone number, and give you access to all of my contacts. 1. Give me a list of supported languages first, please. 2. Let me see more (a video, perhaps?) on what will happen once I've given you all my data (including a prominent privacy policy.) 3. You've obviously done some great work with the language engine APIs; why not use Twilio to connect this up through existing Messenger apps like WhatsApp? Do I really need another messaging app? Keep going!!!

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2yr ago

Oscar Schyns

Flipchat

Maker

Launching soon!

@gregg_berretta Thnx for the feedback man! will work on it. We decided not to use Twilio yet but first see how this works as a stand alone version. The downside of Twilio is that the value of your own network is lower and the business becomes easier to copy. We have a privacy policy but maybe we should give it a more prominent place in the app.

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2yr ago

Gregg Berretta

@flipchat I’m old and struggling to learn a new language so I’m really counting on you to get this right. My response to the Twilio thing: I get it completely. But if you launch on WhatsApp next week (yes, it’s possible) you’ll be so entrenched and so far ahead of everyone else that you won’t care about who copies you. If you delay and someone else gets there before you, nobody will need your product at all. That’s the leap of faith. Have competitors and compete to win or avoid competitors and allow one of them to put all your code and effort into the dustbin.

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2yr ago

Oscar Schyns

Flipchat

Maker

Launching soon!

@gregg_berretta, another reason we didn't choose a system like Twilio is the cost involved. According to the internet, they charge $0.005 per message, which means that if a user sends 100 messages a day (which is not uncommon for young people), the cost becomes $0.50 a day, not taking into account received messages. I don't think this is sustainable, as the costs could easily become a few dollars each day for an active user. Maybe instead of using Twilio, we can create our own back-end, but that would require time.

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2yr ago