Smile

@rrhoover @adamcudworth I just invited the founder @tempofeng to join the conversation. @kjemperud The founder's previous app is a popular messaging app called http://cubie.com/ with more than 10 million users across the globe.

@kwdinc Cool, I guess they know what they are doing then :)

@kwdinc @kjemperud Yes, it’s our learning project and I hope we know what's we're doing. :) At first, I don’t think I’ll use Smile that much (I’m a married man, so … :p). But after using it more and more, I really enjoy seeing the place my wife is going to, and we have more things to chat about. We are very interested to learn if there are more people feeling the same, or they have different usage using Smile.

@rrhoover Thanks for the feedback. Do you think we should make the videos disappear faster, or make them smaller? or do you have any other ideas that can make people more willing to communicate? Do you also feel the same using the back camera?

@rrhoover for me it's more like asynchronized FaceTime. I spent lots of time playing Smile with my friends and families oversea. It gives me an easier way to keep updated with people I cared the most :)

@adamcudworth Sorry but the videos can't be turned off. If users can turn it off, Smile will become another utility messengers like iMessage and Whatsapp. We want to create another use case which users can communicate on iMessage most of the time, but still use Smile with some friends because it feels much closer and fun.

@kjemperud Agree with that, it looks cool, but strikes me as a fun/learning project.

@kjemperud @_vojto We don't really have an idea about the growth now. We want to try if we can find the right audience by this project first. And it's indeed a learning project to us. :)