Who 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-...
and I just checked - it is still live on the App Store! :)
In 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.
Thinking 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?
Reminds me of my favorite chat app with artificial constraints: WhatsApplebee's (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."
Chat 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.
I guess this is one app that won't get away with running a crypto miner in the background.
A chat app that only allows you to send a single message ever to any contact.
I would actually pay for an app that will broadcast my “low-battery death” automatically to the few chats i use all the time.
I've had this idea before and I would have named it "LastBreath" or "Low Chattery". But their name is good too.
A chat app that can have no more than 5 contacts. The.Rage.
Does this address that once I am at 1% I charge it up to 5% in order to stay on the chat all the time?
Is 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.
I’m hoping some jerk complains about this new trend so I can point out that haiku was invented in the 1600s.
JennaMarbles 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.
Chat app that lets you post only one message at a time per channel at dubfi.com :)
How is this whole thread turning into Reddit.
There 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.