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March 8, 2013 07:18 pm GMT
Yes, the messaging app space is super-hot and super-crowded. It’s probably the most competitive part of the consumer app space, with giants like China’s Tencent and Facebook in the ring along with established venture-backed companies like WhatsApp. Yet it’s still luring entrepreneurs and there are new breakout apps every year like NHN’s Line or Snapchat. Now a veteran team from the social gaming world is taking a stab with a new app called MessageMe. It’s light, It’s fast and it isn’t just limited to texting or photos. If you’re meme-oriented in your messaging, the app can pull in images from Google search, music from iTunes, videos from YouTube or doodles that you draw. Whatever suits your mood, really. “We weren’t originally thinking about building a messaging app,” said CEO Arjun Sethi, who started MessageMe after growing a social gaming company called LOLapps to a peak headcount of 150 and 50 million monthly active users on Facebook. He founded the company while an entrepreneur-in-residence at former Facebook vice president Chamath Palihapitiyas Social + Capital fund. While the company has some funding, they’re not disclosing investors yet. “We thought about how you just communicate,” he said. “We want people to choose whatever medium they feel most comfortable with.” MessageMe pre-populates your friend list using your address book or through a Facebook log-in. When you send a message, it’s a quick one-click switch between text, photos, images, videos, music or doodles. Then there are two other options for stickers and money that the company will build out later. Beta testers I’ve talked to like the app for its speed and the ability to pull in ridiculous images and songs quickly. “This isn’t about sending file formats. It’s about sending how you feel,” Sethi said. “We’re really, really focused on asynchronous communication. We’re not thinking about doing voice calls or FaceTime. We’re focused on what we consider natural human communication.” In early beta testing, the startup found that users would do things like use doodles to physically draw out words or messages they wanted to send. They also didn’t expect that users would send so many videos or photos. Right now, if you want to send a goofy LOLcat in iMessage, you have to go out to the browser, search for the image and then bring it back into your camera roll to send it later. MessageMe makes that whole process a lot quicker.
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MessageMe: A Richer, Faster Messaging App That Quickly Grabs Doodles, Videos & Images
Yes, the messaging app space is super-hot and super-crowded. It’s probably the most competitive part of the consumer app space, with giants like China’s Tencent and Facebook in the ring along with established venture-backed companies like WhatsApp. Yet it’s still luring entrepreneurs and there are new breakout apps every year like NHN’s Line or Snapchat. Now a veteran team from the social gaming world is taking a stab with a new app called MessageMe. It’s light, It’s fast and it isn’t just limited to texting or photos. If you’re meme-oriented in your messaging, the app can pull in images from Google search, music from iTunes, videos from YouTube or doodles that you draw. Whatever suits your mood, really. “We weren’t originally thinking about building a messaging app,” said CEO Arjun Sethi, who started MessageMe after growing a social gaming company called LOLapps to a peak headcount of 150 and 50 million monthly active users on Facebook. He founded the company while an entrepreneur-in-residence at former Facebook vice president Chamath Palihapitiyas Social + Capital fund. While the company has some funding, they’re not disclosing investors yet. “We thought about how you just communicate,” he said. “We want people to choose whatever medium they feel most comfortable with.” MessageMe pre-populates your friend list using your address book or through a Facebook log-in. When you send a message, it’s a quick one-click switch between text, photos, images, videos, music or doodles. Then there are two other options for stickers and money that the company will build out later. Beta testers I’ve talked to like the app for its speed and the ability to pull in ridiculous images and songs quickly. “This isn’t about sending file formats. It’s about sending how you feel,” Sethi said. “We’re really, really focused on asynchronous communication. We’re not thinking about doing voice calls or FaceTime. We’re focused on what we consider natural human communication.” In early beta testing, the startup found that users would do things like use doodles to physically draw out words or messages they wanted to send. They also didn’t expect that users would send so many videos or photos. Right now, if you want to send a goofy LOLcat in iMessage, you have to go out to the browser, search for the image and then bring it back into your camera roll to send it later. MessageMe makes that whole process a lot quicker.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/4vKLeHmanig/
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