Hey HN, Chatible is a project I've been working on this past week. I wanted to explore the idea of using bots to connect humans together. I'd love any feedback.
1) It requires a Messenger account. (I believe FB decoupled FB and Messenger recently)
2) We don't store any messages on our backend.
3) We support text and stickers.
4) It's not regional. We pair you with random people throughout the world. However, if there's a demand for regional pairing, we will explore that as well.
I recently deleted my FB account. It asked me if I still wanted stop use messenger, which I did. Kept all of my contacts and previous message chains, if this helps inform anyone from anecdotal experience.
Yeah, I agree. We've already implemented that functionality, but right now we're brainstorming ways to roll it out without clunky UI. We want to keep it extremely simple to use for now.
I'm surprised how easy it is to set up, since I already have the Facebook Messenger app on my mobile device. I actually thought it was am official Facebook service for a minute.
Yeah, that's a reasonable concern. We haven't yet implemented anything to avoid spam, but that has been on our todo list. We have been thinking about giving users the ability to flag an account after their conversation ends. Maybe implement some sort of penalty system.
It's somewhat difficult to create tons of new Facebook accounts, so you can ride off this perk of Facebook to handle spam yourself. Flagging conversations is a good idea, so after three or so flags, you can automatically ban the account, and I think that would auffice.
