What up PH! I’m Danny, CEO and co-founder of Free with @kelvin.
We started working on Free over a year ago to solve a tricky problem: sharing when you’re available and making plans with your friends is damn tedious. It’s also pretty inefficient, intimidating to share with lots of people, and not that fun. If you’re like us: you text a bunch of people individually to hang, get a few responses, wrangle groups as people jump in/out, then finally meet up. We know software can make this way, way easier.
There are a lot of awesome folks who have taken a crack at this problem but none have quite hit the mark yet for us. We’re no strangers to how nuanced and difficult the problem is — this is one of many major iterations we’ve built and we’ve put out our fair share of lemons. We finally have a take that’s been testing well with our friends & family, so we wanted to open it up to more people and see if they agree.
This is where we’d be really grateful for your help. Give Free a try and let us know what you think. We’d love frank feedback (real talk) and ideas on how Free could be better with way, way more folks. We know it has many ways to be better and want your input. Personally, I’d love to jam on the problem with anyone in this community - add me as “danny” on Free and hit me up!
PS we're going out tonight in SF to celebrate - if you’re available, come out and don’t be a stranger! Join my Free and the first round(s) are on us.
@dtrinh Totally understand the pain that you are trying to solve. I will definitely give a try. My only concern on using Free is how can I make all my friends subscribe to Free seamlessly so I can make start push events to my entourage. Let's say if a create an event can I share it on my most used communications channels, such as Messenger, Twitter and Emails?
@dtrinh Awesome product! Wanted to have something like this for a long time (and actually thought of building this myself), but Free does everything I would want in such a product and is beautifully executed. Congratulations on the launch!
Neat idea. Hope it works. twitter integration is too growth-hacky. Posts a tweet both (a) when the UI makes it look like you're "looking for friends", or adding contacts in-app and (b) without letting us see/edit the tweet.
Spamming people via the personal reputation of your users via twitter is not the best. Feels like "social" apps circa 2009, i.e. "spam the shit out of people" era.
@ben_mathes Agreed. Seriously, this Twitter auto-share stuff is annoying. Even in 2011 apps gave you the option to share on Twitter or not when you connected.
@ben_mathes Sorry about that. The intention wasn't to tweet automatically without you knowing: it says "via @…" with a checkmark next to it, but it's too easy to miss. Since the screen was unclear, we disabled Twitter posting this morning until we can fix that up in a future version.
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