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Show HN: Your private Reddit, best topic messenger

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If you want a private reddit...you can just make a private subreddit

I agree, the reddit comparison does not work here.

There is a difference, with the structure of private subreddits, we felt there is rigidity and for Reddit it is for ONE group of users and topic.

Trigger is mobile-first platform, where we try to make the individual or multiple groups as fluid as you would do in a normal conversation, and everything organised by topics.

Agreed. IRC fits better

And more conversational IRC, still have a lot of potential for mobile.

does this actually have any relation to reddit, or is that just a comparison? Your description doesn't really make it clear, it seems like it might not be but you really mention reddit a lot.

if it isn't linked to reddit, then i don't really understand your tagline. what is a "private reddit"?

Trigger uses Reddit-like structure but in for your private discussions. So it provide more organisation to your conversations, or currently messaging apps.

Things are easier to find, you can have much better flow with all the conversations.

The comparison to reddit is terrible and confusing. I would remove this ASAP, because all this really is is a What'sapp group conversation, with the twist that you can group things by topic.

I really like the suggested conversations feature. I think it would be interesting if each of a wide group of friends could select specific interests, then suggested conversations appear just to those people who are interested in that class of topic. Looks slick as well.

Some questions:

- How do you make money?

- What's your privacy policy? How do you ensure message privacy (the app description calls it 'private')?

- Is it iOS only, or can I connect via the web, desktop client, Android etc.?

Hi Scrumper,

Thanks!

Web is very coming soon!

Our privacy is like direct messages, only who you want can see the message.

Hi I am James, the co-founder and CEO of Trigger. Thanks for asking. Please add my Trigger to discuss more. ID - james Email - james@mobiusbobs.com

When I go to add a contact, occasionally I see your id and email show up under the search box besides "My ID / Email".

Edit: Got it to happen again. Was able to see it on my 4s.

Ok, we are working on it, bear with us. Should be back now!

It's generally not considered to be polite on a forum to tell someone you will answer them elsewhere. It takes away the benefit of the answer from everyone else.

We want to hear the answer too.

small grammar suggestion for your tagline - "a topic-based messenger that organizes all of your conversations."

Also it wasn't clear to me what "my private reddit" meant at first. Aside from that I think the suggested conversations from trending topics is a great feature.

Yes we are testing out your suggestion of descriptive line "a topic-based messenger that organizes all of your conversations." vs more catchy Reddit derivative.

please find more detail: thetrigger.io

www.thetrigger.io

This is awesome. I've been searching for things like this for a long time (recently I've found Point and Branch), but hey, links! Links are web things, not phone things.

Thanks, we are trying give better conversation experiences both contextually and inter-personally.

I am sorry that the server went down for two minutes.... We got several thousands new users at the same time and somehow our server processing went wrong. Now should be ok !

So how does it work exactly ?

Hi WandH, I am jimi one of the co-founders of the Trigger team. Trigger is a messenger that allows you to base your conversations on topic. It's a more powerful for organisation and elegant way of doing IM.

Better conversations start from the trigger topics to friends to keeping up every single conversation.

Yes, but how does it works? I think what we are asking is for technical details (technology, servers, security, privacy)

Basically we're using Node.js&Mongodb as server and use socket.io for the realtime data transmission. Also we got a really complete RestfulAPI behind, we're looking forward to release it and make more possibilities of the future communication.

Typo in your title!

upadted, cheers for pointing it out!

typo here too! :p

Good!!!

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