They seem to be doing exactly what I'm trying to do. I think they lack a feature or two, but it could be on their roadmap. Thanks for telling me about this. I don't know if I should feel happy or sad. :|
You should be happy. It means your idea is somewhat validated in that someone else is willing to put money and effort into making conversation better on the internet ;)
*disclaimer: I work at Branch, and we are indeed focusing on many of the problems you raised in your original post. If you look at the @branch twitter account you'll see many more examples of branches that you'd be interested in reading.
I understand. But, I'm just a learner trying to find a pet project that I could be excited about. This was it, but knowing that there are money-backed teams somewhere in the states working on this is discouraging. I was hoping to use this opportunity to work hard and learn async web programming, say node.js/socket.io or maybe meteor.
If I would have been an entrepreneur, I would have hit you guys head-on with a better implementation. ;) :P
Anyway, all the best guys. I did shoot you a mail, and am also waiting for an invite at the least, if possible. :)
