@rrhoover good question - just a little back story on Pingly, I originally set out to build a better email platform and as I was flushing out that idea I found my real pain point was in needing a better platform to "direct message" people and visa versa. The three main mediums I used to chat with were email, text and voice. One way to think of it is like Twitter Direct Messaging that's platform agnostic (Ex: most messaging apps require your contacts to be using the same app, I wanted Pingly to work for you whether all or none of your contacts were using it) To answer your question on how it could make you more efficient / effective: - Less app/context switching (Which I admit is a low one and Pingly needs to be better than the existing apps you're using to make this worth while) - Since all three of those communication mediums are aggregated into one platform we can do cool things around them, think built-in IFTTT for your communications. - Pingly uses a "iMessage/chat" conversation UI which takes the bloat feeling of email away and brings it in-line with other messaging styles. - Lastly, Smart Numbers which is our take on the phone number. The phone number you get on your mobile device is fairly "dumb" in the sense it can't do much around the phone calls or text messages that goes through it. Smart Numbers on Pingly have: — built-in spam flagging that runs off a database that's constantly updated — are programmable and routable (i.e. don't ring my Smart Number after 7pm because I'm at home UNLESS it's a call from a VIP client or send them a special text message in response) — a new take on visual voicemail that's in the same convo thread as your messages and is much more stream-lined — work across devices, in your browser and mobile device. Hope that helps and I'm glad you asked that question. It's the one I get the most and helps me tune my "elevator pitch" 🤓

@tyvdh thank you Tyler!

@arieljalali thanks Ariel! Feel free to message me on Pingly if you have any questions or feedback, my username is "noah" or via email with noah@pingly.com

@sovesove Thank you for your feedback and question! Message data is encrypted using AES-256. Web and SMTP connections are encrypted over ssl with Perfect Forward Secrecy enabled and known weak ciphers disabled. A user's message data cannot be accessed without their explicit permission. This should only be asked in the case of debugging an issue a user may be experiencing. We will not sell user's data and we do not scan email/messages for the purpose of mining data or to sell ads i.e. Gmail Long term I would like to see client-side encryption implemented in some way for Pingly. That's currently an interesting challenge with two of the messaging protocols we support: Email and SMS. Hope that helps and feel free to email me at noah@pingly.com if you have any other questions. 👍

thank you Cindy!

@rrhoover @vineetdevaiah thanks for the feedback Vineet! I'll write a detailed blog post about Smart Numbers showing how they work and their benefits in more detail soon ⚡️ That will be posted on our blog at https://medium.com/@Pinglyapp