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> from this technical investment What technical investment? They bought an open-source project from a high-school student. Beeper Mini is an app they would ha
by sgjohnson 3y ago
> from this technical investment
What technical investment? They bought an open-source project from a high-school student.
Beeper Mini is an app they would have built anyway. They simply implemented the bare minimum of iMessage functionality there. Which is a couple of days worth of work, maximum. Maybe a week. And some for testing.
I’m somewhat certain it cost them less than 5 figures. And if it did, what a great marketing campaign. I had no idea what Beeper even was before this whole fiasco.
- manmal 3y agoMore like a few weeks to months since there‘s also emoji support and endless scrolling etc, but yeah. I agree it’s doable by one developer and that’s quite affordable to do, considering the scale Beeper is at now.
- lolinder 3y agoI still have no idea what Beeper is, because beeper.com only talks about Beeper Mini. I'm getting from some people here on HN that there's another product... somewhere... but if the purpose of the whole exercise were to draw attention to that product shouldn't they be doing that somehow? As is all I know about is the chat app whose primary sales pitch is the now-broken iMessage interop.
- rezonant 3y agoBottom of the page, click Beeper Cloud. They signalled that they want to move all of Beeper Cloud's features to Mini eventually and just call it Beeper. https://www.beeper.com/cloud https://www.beeper.com/cloud