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Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% battery
- YesThatTom2 7y agoI’m hoping some jerk complains about this new trend so I can point out that haiku was invented in the 1600s.
- edvinasbartkus 7y agoDoes this address that once I am at 1% I charge it up to 5% in order to stay on the chat all the time?
- pg_is_a_butt 7y agoshould just boot while charging
- thedrake 7y agomaybe have a chat app that only works when the phone is being charged up... Live with me
- londons_explore 7y agoOr... They check the charge history and require you haven't used a charger in the past 12 hours...
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- justusthane 7y agoI like this. It sort of simulates requiring a wired connection for communication.
- encoderer 7y agoCall it landline.
- gpvos 7y agoIt should turn the chat off while charging, of course.
- benoliver999 7y agoIf you have a rooted android phone you can spoof the battery level and chat forever...
- compscistd 7y agoThinking about the origins of apps like this always feel like a chicken and egg situation. Did someone look at the battery level indicator API and ask what they could do with this? Or did they have the app idea first and wondered if there was a device API to make it work?
- floatingatoll 7y agoYou may enjoy https://www.blackboxpuzzles.com/ https://www.blackboxpuzzles.com/ :)
- arisAlexis 7y agothe guy with the idea is an artist so I doubt he was thinking in API terms but more abstractly when probably drunk in a bar late :)
- Scoundreller 7y agoChat systems with artificial constraints seem to be all the rage: Must include picture, self-destructing after 5 seconds, 140, errrr, 280 characters. And now fatalistic battery level requirements. I can only wonder what the next iterations will include! edit: This is the third app I've ever bought (others: Purify and PocketCity). I appreciate the creativity and simplicity.
- ohyes 7y agoI'm hoping for one that you can only use if you're sitting next to the other person.
- jfk13 7y agoA notepad and pencil?
- ohyes 7y agoThat's genius, if we could upset the notepad and pencil industry, we would be huge!
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- reaperducer 7y agoIn my office we use iCloud shared Notes to say terrible things behind the boss' back. Bypasses the company's IT system, so it can't be restricted. And each person erases the previous message, so it can't be recorded like SMS.
- RL_Quine 7y agoIt can be denied with a policy profile.
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- SubiculumCode 7y agoA chat app that can have no more than 5 contacts. The.Rage.
- toyg 7y agoIs that a constraint? Most of my “actual” contact lists are actually 2-3 max. Foreveralone.jpg
- omosubi 7y agoThere are people with more than 5 friends?!
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- klyrs 7y ago5 contacts should be enough for anybody
- cryptoz 7y agoReally, you only need 1 contact - as long as that contact will store your other contacts for you!
- JasonFruit 7y agoA contact list is really a special kind of contact that can contain more contacts. It's more elegant that way. /s
- klyrs 7y agoThe internet is a series of contact lists
- DonHopkins 7y agoChatTorrent
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- toyg 7y agoI would actually pay for an app that will broadcast my “low-battery death” automatically to the few chats i use all the time.
- Scoundreller 7y agoI guess this is one app that won't get away with running a crypto miner in the background.
- zazagura 7y agoA chat app that only allows you to send a single message ever to any contact.
- staffordrj 7y agoA chat app that randomly drops messages with no indication they are delivered. Call it General Chat.
- DanBC 7y agoJennaMarbles and Julien Solomita covered this app, and the "Alive with me" (only chat if you have 95%+ battery life) and they seemed to enjoy it. https://youtu.be/id2engoWMv8?t=554 https://youtu.be/id2engoWMv8?t=554
- ChikkaChiChi 7y agoI actually watched that for the first time over the weekend. They liked Die with Me, but Alive with me was "dead"
- surds 7y agoWho remembers the 'Yo!' app? I had facepalmed when I learnt it got funding - https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/18/yo-raises-1-5m-in-funding-at-a-10m-valuation-investors-include-betaworks-and-pete-cashmore/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/18/yo-raises-1-5m-in-funding-... and I just checked - it is still live on the App Store! :)
- Bombthecat 7y agoYo!
- driesdep 7y agoYo!
- quickthrower2 7y agoI remember the Bro! app.
- 83457 7y agoDude
- mLuby 7y agoFriends got $1K for winning a Yo hackathon with "Marko Yolo" X~D
- lucb1e 7y agoA few years ago I (jokingly) argued that the way to make a killer app today is to take something good and make it bad. Take YouTube and allow people to only upload videos of a few seconds: Vine Create a blogging platform where people can write only 2-3 sentences per blog post: Twitter The "Yo!" and "Die With Me" apps seem to fit right in.
- camjohnson26 7y agoInstagram with no persistence? Snapchat!
- lcnmrn 7y agoChat app that lets you post only one message at a time per channel at dubfi.com :)
- quickthrower2 7y agoIn app purchase to chat with less than 15% instead of less than 5%. Love it, you are paying extra to slightly undo the crippling that’s the USP of this MVP.
- latchkey 7y agoLiterally buying more time!
- Scoundreller 7y agoSince it shows percentages, I plan on using my last electrons to hatemail the > 5% crowd relentlessly.
- eckesicle 7y agoThere was a great iOS game back in the day called "One Single Life" or some such. The game had you jump between buildings, and if you ever fell to your death, well then the app stopped working completely. Back then the device id was accessible so you couldn't even reinstall it iirc. It was a great experience to play a game where failure had a real consequence.
- NikolaNovak 7y ago... and a mere 3 hours later, your comment is the top search for the query it inspired: "game called one single life" 1:https://www.google.com/search?q=game+called+one+single+life https://www.google.com/search?q=game+called+one+single+life
- johnkpaul 7y agoNot for me. I'm guessing you use chrome and signed in?
- cameronbrown 7y agoYup this seems to be it.
- rickycook 7y agoupsetting, yet expected
- NikolaNovak 7y agoNope; reformatted computers few weeks ago, switched to Firefox permanently, installed auto-cookie clear. Query opens in separate Firefox container from HN. Don't even have Chrome installed anymore. To confirm, just replicated on my MS Edge which hasn't been fired up ever (welll.... technically, once, on day one, to install Firefox:). Note that I'm not signed in, I haven't used HN on that browser, and there are no cookies. Not sure what else I can do to get cleaner results? :| https://imgur.com/a/5ObkK9v https://imgur.com/a/5ObkK9v
- Liron 7y agoI've had this idea before and I would have named it "LastBreath" or "Low Chattery". But their name is good too.
- yyhhsj0521 7y agoHow is this whole thread turning into Reddit.
- DonHopkins 7y agoBecause sometimes people don't follow the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
- conroy 7y agoReminds me of my favorite chat app with artificial constraints: WhatsApplebee's (http://whatsapplebees.com/ http://whatsapplebees.com/) "Using our iPhone app, you can have anonymous conversations with other Applebee's patrons and brand advocates." "WhatsApplebee's uses iPhone location services to limit access to those currently inside an Applebee's. We enforce this strictly, unlike other chain restaurant-based messaging services such as T.G.I. Friendster or Olive Grindr."
- jrockway 7y agoIs battery life still a thing? I listen to music all day on my phone and still have some large amount of battery left at the end of the day. I know other people are heavier users of their phone, but I feel like the paranoia about battery life kind of went away several years ago.
- snailmailman 7y agoAs someone still rocking an iPhone 6s, I’ve had the battery replaced last year but still usually have to plug it in and charge at some point in the afternoon/evening. Will be almost dead by lunch some days. Depends what I use my phone for each day.