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Great questions! We need to do a better job of answering these questions in the product itself, and we will. For now, here are our answers to your specific conc
by jsherwani 8y ago
Great questions! We need to do a better job of answering these questions in the product itself, and we will. For now, here are our answers to your specific concerns:
a) We are not going to send any emails or texts to anyone from your contacts. Apps like Gather / IRL spam people for growth, and we would rather earn your trust and grow slowly.
b) You can use Millow without ever inviting anyone else on. It can be used in a 100% single-player mode, where it will do exactly what you said. You can set reminders for your close friends, and Millow will send you a push notification once a week (Sunday afternoon in your device's time zone) to remind you about the friends that you're set to meet this week (it won't send a push reminder if there are none).
c) Monetization isn't something we're particularly concerned with in the immediate future (we are a team of two, and have sufficient savings from the acquisition of my previous startup Screenhero by Slack), and we are doing this mainly because we believe in the social impact of what we're doing. We do have plans for future monetization (e.g. if we help you make a plan to meet up with a friend at a local restaurant, the restaurant pays us similarly to OpenTable).
Happy to chat more, here or via email (support@millow.app). We're a two person team, and are eager for learning more and improving.
- epberry 8y agoSingle player mode ftw. I'm really excited about this app.
- jsherwani 8y agoYay! It makes us super happy to hear that :) Please write us here or directly if you have any feedback / feature requests / critique!
- Balgair 8y agoGood freakin Lord! I've been searching for this app for years now! Thank you so much for doing this! Brett and Kate McKay at ArtOfManliness.com have talked about these 'relationships that don't scale' [0] for a while now. CRM software is perfect for those kinds of friendships, but it always costs too much (~$1/day typically). You app is PERFECT for what I have been looking for! Thank you! [0]https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-build-unscaleable-relationships/ https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-build-unscale...
- jsherwani 8y agoThis is exactly the kind of thinking that led us to create Millow! Please feel free to reach out to us directly if you have feedback in the future, we'd love to hear from you, as you're our ideal user.