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peoplesvoicemail.com

7 pointsmcadenhe5 comments

Wow this is really cool. I would love for something like this to get popular. I don’t know why, but this concept seems so early 2000s ... no profile pictures... no logins... no b.s. - Just free and open discussion. Sucks that there aren’t any active conversations. OP, did you make this service?

I'm touched that you think it's cool. It's my passion project I built to try and make an impact on the divisiveness and polarization in society but it hasn't been well-received.

Thanks to your comment, I'm wondering about a new approach. Before, I was pitching politicians that they should get their own number to have a forum for community discussions. But maybe I should try to start my own community about politics and incline people to call in to share their perspectives. You think that could lead to somewhere?

Idk, but if you have any thoughts or ideas I'd love to hear em. The project is in its death throes right now.

Dude, I would tell Twitch.tv streamers about it, so their fans could call in and talk... I would promote it on college campuses... They're in need of something like this after the death of the Yik Yak app. You could push this project on Twitter, etc.

I'll personally shill this on my university's campus for you, but don't give up on this. I'm sure there are a lot of other people who feel the same way that I do. This is a REALLY cool idea!!

Those are brilliant ideas. You've really inspired me man. I really needed this to keep going on it.

So I just realized to get a number to use for a discussion forum, it's $20 per month. That basically stopped me from creating one. An idea I had was to make a few fliers with a QR code linking to my (hypothetical) number, and ask for student's opinions on the COVID-19 situation on campus anonymously.

I could post some of these fliers at my student union, in other common areas. But I think marketing this as anonymous discussion would work pretty well, because people don't have a way to do that anymore in 2020. The compression would mask /some/ identifying vocal intonations, and the area code isn't that relevant, considering a lot of kids at my school are from other states.

I'm not telling you how the site should be run, but I've actually had an idea for something like PeoplesVoicemail before, so now that I found this, I'm pretty hype. I'm willing to help as much as I can, just let me know what I need to do. I believe in you, dude. Keep pushing.

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