nat.app
Productivity
email tools
SHOW HN2020
36points
16comments
#1,260of 3,028 in 2020
Top 42%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
0 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.
Idea: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting idea and a fascinating historical parallel to Octel and NeXT
From 2 comments
>> I really don't want to listen to your 3 minute audio file when I could have read it in 30 seconds. Almost 19yrs ago, at my employer, it was common for people to send an…
TuringNYC on HNNeXT computers could do this in the 1980s.
oncenext on HN
Objections
Audio is slow to consume compared with reading; transcription would be needed
From 1 comment
Audio messages have their place but sometimes it's one of the worst ways to communicate. The only way I would even consider working with someone sending audio files over email…
kobalsky on HN
Requests
Mobile version
From 1 comment
Very neat. Any plans for a mobile version?
rememberlenny on HN
Questions
How audio is stored and accessed by both parties
From 1 comment
Nice - how did you manage to store audio locally yet enable both parties to have access?
rocauc on HN
Alternatives named
Octel voice messaging
From 1 comment
>> I really don't want to listen to your 3 minute audio file when I could have read it in 30 seconds. Almost 19yrs ago, at my employer, it was common for people to send an…
TuringNYC on HN
NeXT computers audio features
From 1 comment
NeXT computers could do this in the 1980s.
oncenext on HN
Wistia-style personalised audio in email campaigns
From 1 comment
Very interesting. We had earlier dabbled with audio platform in emails. As it turned out, most of the money to be made is in email campaigns and for that we created personalised…
nikhilbagadia on HN