Looks intriguing, but from the website I can't really tell what it does/doesn't do. Maybe a quick youtube video would help make this concrete? For me, the question is: if I put this on an old smartphone and put it in my kid's room, can I/she use Siri to send each other message? Or do we have to separately open the app, wait for it to load, and then say the message?
When something is free it usually is paid for by selling my data, as the free-tier of a paid product, or the owners haven't figured out how to make money on it and are hoping to figure that out later.
We don't but it helps with marketing and has synergies with other paid products
Most of the traffic is P2P. We operate a couple of geo distributed relays for NAT'd traffic. But everything is 100% e2e encrypted thanks to webrtc.
It's mostly a tool for us and something that helps sell our other products, but we decided to split it out as a separate app so that it could be used independently. All we collect is a name and email, and even those can be pseudonymous.
gnicholas|5 years ago
justin_oaks|5 years ago
When something is free it usually is paid for by selling my data, as the free-tier of a paid product, or the owners haven't figured out how to make money on it and are hoping to figure that out later.
zumachase|5 years ago
Most of the traffic is P2P. We operate a couple of geo distributed relays for NAT'd traffic. But everything is 100% e2e encrypted thanks to webrtc.
It's mostly a tool for us and something that helps sell our other products, but we decided to split it out as a separate app so that it could be used independently. All we collect is a name and email, and even those can be pseudonymous.