8 Messaging Apps that Shined Product Hunt
Looking back at the previous week on Product Hunt’s Tech section, we dug up 8 messaging-related apps that got featured (excluding Slack Bots). As I skim through the hunts, I felt like we are getting closer to the world with a personal Jarvis for everyone.
1. Yellow Messenger [74 votes] — “Order Anything on Chat”
The Hunter’s Quote: “Yellow Messenger allows users to search for products and services based on location. The app customizes each user’s experience based on his or her search history.”
You can check it out here.
2. LinkedChat [93 votes] — “Use Facebook, Telegram and Slack to chat with your customers”
Since Slack is becoming a platform/hub for conversations and notifications, this service does exactly that.
Check out the hunt here.
3. Telegram 2.0 for Mac [189 votes] — “A new era in messaging”
It’s not new-new, but it’s the new-old. Telegram 2.0 for Mac, now powered with bots.
The Hunter’s Quote: “The release notes for 2.0 are very interesting:
GIF revolution: 20x faster sending and downloading, autoplay, save your favorite GIFs to a dedicated tab on the sticker panel.
Inline bots: A new way to add bot content to any chat. Type a bot’s username and your query in the text field to get instant results and send them to your chat partner. Try typing “@gif dog” in your next chat. Sample bots: @gif, @wiki, @bing, @vid, @bold”
Read the conversation here.
4. Assist [613 votes] — Bring the best services to your favorite messaging apps
Per Maker: “We are excited to try and accelerate 2 things: expose more APIs that allow for customer self-service, like scheduling, pre-ordering, queuing, requests, etc. Further, when you need to talk to a business, that you can do it through a single interface where YOU have a copy of the conversation ‘for quality purposes’.”
Read the rest of the intro here.
5. Hero [78 votes] — “Effortless personal assistance via messaging”
The Hunter’s Quote: Only available in London right now, but looks like a local-market version of Operator.
Check out the hunt here.
6. Peach [996 votes] — Keep up with friends and be yourself ?
This is the one everyone’s crazy about. I don’t wholeheartedly get it yet, but we’ll have to see how long and far this one will stick.
The Hunter’s Quote: “Magic words are the interesting differentiator here — kind of like slash commands in Slack or @mentions in Telegram/HipChat.”
Read the rest of the conversations here.
7. Speak [146 votes] — “Message safely while driving”
The maker made a funny little video that parents can relate to. Check it outhere.
8. SwiftGift [48 votes] — “The world’s first instant gift messenger”
Per Maker: “Getting a great gift requires a lot of time and effort. There are traditional frictions such as finding the perfect gift, actually purchasing it, getting it wrapped, buying a card… We’ve built SwiftGift to remove all these frictions and to revolutionize the gifting process. It allows a user to send physical gifts to anyone in their phone’s contact book with just a few clicks, and without the need for an address!”
Check out the hunt here.
To sum it up, we’re seeing on average one or more messaging related apps being featured on Product Hunt everyday. If you’d like to build one for yourself, you know where to start: SendBird.
Have a wonderful week everybody!
