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Incubate

Incubate

Time-delay messaging app

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Time-delay messaging app

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myincubate.comApp Store
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Launched in 2015View 1 launch
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Erik TorenbergMichael McCluney

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Ryan Hoover
Ryan Hoover
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Product Hunt

@thatcherskye although it just launched, how are people using it? Anything super unexpected?
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10yr ago
Michael McCluney
Michael McCluney
Incubate

Incubate

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@rrhoover We started to see trends within different demographics. The younger demographics are doing more short term novel messaging; partying with friends and sending messages to several days into the future - we have coined this "drincubating." Older demographics are doing more long term messaging - this is what we expected. We had a very successful "Incubate Our Wedding" campaign - brides and grooms will receive messages sent by loved ones from their wedding on anniversaries in the future. We have been contacted by numerous wedding publications as this use case appears to be resonating well in that market.
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10yr ago
Alex
Alex
Tiny Notes

Tiny Notes

@thatcherskye @rrhoover Surprised again to see so many people thinking of similar concepts. Here is a sketch I made a while ago about a "messenger with your past self." Cheers to Incubate for the awesome concept! http://bit.ly/1DHmudm
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10yr ago
Michael McCluney
Michael McCluney
Incubate

Incubate

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@rrhoover @alexyoungkwon Very cool. We are working to get into high schools right now so that they can get their students to send messages from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Be a great way to establish goals and be reminded so that a person can easily assess the achievement of them.
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10yr ago
Michael McCluney
Michael McCluney
Incubate

Incubate

Maker
Hey there Hunters: We just launched Incubate, a mobile messaging application that allows users to send strategically timed messages from 1 minute up to 25 years into the future. Attached is our launch video - it was created by some of the same guys that did the famed Dollar Shave Club commercial. Just a heads up, it might be considered PG-13 by some.
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10yr ago
Max Wendkos
Max Wendkos

Anchor for Android

@thatcherskye Why do usernames have to be at least six characters long?
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10yr ago
Michael McCluney
Michael McCluney
Incubate

Incubate

Maker
@maxwendkos We erred on the side of security :)
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10yr ago
Jeff Umbro
Jeff Umbro
Rocketship.fm

Rocketship.fm

What's the wildest shenanigans you all have seen on this so far?
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10yr ago
Michael McCluney
Michael McCluney
Incubate

Incubate

Maker
@jeffumbro When we were still in beta, we had a college kid that wanted to insure that he'd be the first to wish his girlfriend happy birthday so he sent her a message weeks in the future for midnight on her special day. In the meantime, they broke up. He hit us up and asked how he could delete the message but we don't offer that as it, in our minds, cheapens the messaging experience. We actually followed up with him and he let us know that she was so endeared that they got back together (for just a couple of weeks). It's nice knowing we helped them get laid ;) Additionally, I've woken up on a couple of occasions after several late nights out to discover that I'd sent 10 messages (that I don't remember sending). I could have the dev team delete them but I feel like I should play by the same rules as everyone else. It'll be really interesting when those messages hatch.
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10yr ago

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