so I have to use slack at work, and my social interactions with friends, family and acquaintances are split across fb messenger, telegram, slack, discord, skype, WhatsApp, google chat, SMS, twitter dms and probably a few more I'm forgetting. on some of those platforms, I talk to as little as 1 single person.
I don't understand what could possibly drive anyone to making a new messaging app at this point. Even if your app has impenetrable privacy, impeccable ui, and amazingly useful features - it's not going to improve the horrible experience of wrangling a zillion of other messaging apps - and if your users have friends, they'll have to do that anyway. At this point, making another one of these feels like some kind of sadistic joke.
I wish to incinerate all messaging apps.
P.S.: to clarify - it's not like I even _want_ to use more than half of the messengers I listed. I am _forced to_, because some people I want to talk to are only available on certain platforms.
When the only friend you talk to on platform A moves to platform B, then you will move to platform B. You've already shown that you're OK having your chat spread across the services, so while it may be annoying to you, it doesn't seem like a show stopper for a new platform.
I don't understand what could possibly drive anyone to making a new messaging app at this point. Even if your app has impenetrable privacy, impeccable ui, and amazingly useful features - it's not going to improve the horrible experience of wrangling a zillion of other messaging apps - and if your users have friends, they'll have to do that anyway. At this point, making another one of these feels like some kind of sadistic joke.
I wish to incinerate all messaging apps.
P.S.: to clarify - it's not like I even _want_ to use more than half of the messengers I listed. I am _forced to_, because some people I want to talk to are only available on certain platforms.