Bram Kanstein (@bramk)

Point for iOS - Send and discuss links with friends, now on your iPhone

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Bram Kanstein (@bramk)
I've said this before, but Point is by far the most awesome thing I've found in the history of Product Hunt. Ever since I've found it I've been using it every day and I'm a big big fan! Now @shwinnabego & co are launching Point for iOS and make it even easier to share and discuss links with your friends! Wohooo!
Alan VanToai
@bramk agreed - Point is by far the most handy tool I've discovered on PH (along with Pablo by Buffer). Also - slickest UI and onboarding experience in recent memory. Solid app all around.
Ashwinn
Hey PH! Bringing point to the iPhone has presented some interesting challenges we’d love your feedback on. For one, getting people to use Point from the apps they use (Safari, Twitter, NYT) has presented an education challenge. Secondly, figuring out how to adapt the conversation/webpage split from point desktop to smaller screens has been an interesting design challenge. We’ve also released some great updates to the desktop extension since our last time on Product Hunt: the ability to search through points, email integration so you can point @emails who aren’t on Point, and some other impactful improvements. Excited to hear from you!
Zach Hamed
I've been using this for the past couple weeks and it's completely changed how I share links with friends. It's definitely the fastest, easiest, most convenient way to start a conversation with one or more people on the piece of content to find online. @shwinnabego and team really put a lot of thought into the app, which comes through in the onboarding, commenting, and sharing workflow. Definitely worth the download if you haven't already!
Ashwinn
@zmh thanks Zach! appreciate that and all the feedback :)
Adam Besvinick
Been playing with the beta for a while now. @shwinnabego is one of the more thoughtful, young product guys I've come across, and it definitely shows in what the team and he have put out so far.
Andrew Drozdov
I've been using Point since it first popped up on Product Hunt, and my biggest complaints were that it was difficult to share annotations with friends who didn't have an account, and that it wasn't available on mobile. With this update, both of those requests have been fulfilled and it's super smooth to share articles through Point, perhaps better than any other available options. I need to mention that highlighting on mobile is incredibly tedious in general. Somehow this app figured out how to make it easy and enjoyable. I think the differentiator is that users are more likely to share a paragraph or a sentence rather than an individual word or even a segment of word, and that's reflected in their mobile highlighting functionality. Keep up the great work @shwinnabego and team!
Ashwinn
@mrdrozdov thanks a lot Andrew! Your feedback has been super helpful :)
Jake Wayne
I can without a doubt say Point has been my most used product I have found on Product Hunt. To be able to share and discuss links more privately with a few selected friends is something that is lacking in Facebook or Twitter, and one of the great things Point provides. @shwinnabego and his team did a great job with the iOS app. As a beta tester it was quite obvious how much they cared and took into consideration the feedback I had to give. Excited for what is to come!
Ashwinn
@jhwayne1 Thanks jake! Love your in-depth feedback on the app and glad we've been able to make some of those improvements.
Zack Shapiro
Point is the best, congrats on shipping guys!
Brad Brooks
Any idea when the Safari for Mac extension will be ready (assuming you guys are working on one, that is)?
Ashwinn
@ninthart thanks Brad! Yeah we've got safari and FF extensions in the works - planning within the next couple of months!
freia lobo
Point is so beautifully and thoughtfully designed. My favorite.
Karthik Kamalakannan
Have loved Point from day #1. And I'm still in love with it. It has made sharing links with my team easier than ever. Thanks for building such an amazing product @shwinnabego 🙏
Ashwinn
@imkarthikk thank you Karthik!
michal Naka
I love point. Hopefully a Safari extension is not too far off :)
Ashwinn
@michalnaka not too far at all michal!
Ajay Mehta
Have been using the beta of Point iOS for a couple months, and it's super lightweight, straightforward, and easy to use (not to mention pretty). Big fan of this current release and I'm excited to be able to recommend it to friends and get some more conversations going. Congrats to @shwinnabego @abhoopathy and team on launch day!
Aaron Lee
Point has become a daily social aspect within our company. Sharing ideas and inspirations so easily has helped us expand our vision, and our conversation. Collaborating is easy and quick, with an interface that never gets you lost. @shwinnabego responds (scary) fast to feedback, and inquiries! Customer service is second to none. Point is an amazing product, amazingly made.
Harry Stebbings
Oh my god I absolutely love point! Do not know what I would do without it now I have lived with it! Plus @shwinnabego is an absolute legend!
Brad Brooks
Congrats on the official launch by the way! Point is great, and now the app is out, I can start convincing friends to download it :)
Ashwinn
@ninthart hope the iPhone app helps!
Steve Kaliski
Nice job guys! I've been using Point since the beginning and the addition of a mobile app has totally changed my experience. Receiving notifications and sharing on the go turned Point from a "only when I'm at work utility" to something I use more regularly. There's lots to cram into that tiny phone screen and they did it well. Bravo.
Ashwinn
@stevekaliski thanks steve!
Adam Saint
Point is so remarkable in its simplicity. It fundamentally fixes the act of sharing content. I think that if we set out to build the Web from scratch today, Point would be baked right into browsers along with cards and the other mechanisms we've invented to complete the experience. The mobile app just cements all of this, and distills a clumsy process on phones into something clear and delightful. I don't think it's the intent of the product, but it's turned out to be a great tool for research on teams as well. :-) Thanks @shwinnabego and the rest of the team!
Ashwinn
@adamjsaint thanks so much adam!
Will Roper
This is awesome. Been using email and gchat to share articles, hopefully this will replace that, just have to get my friends and family on board.
Ashwinn
@wwr228 thanks will! If they don't hop on immediately, you can still point articles to their emails (with any comments / parts you quote) - see more here: http://www.getpoint.co/blog/poin...
Ben Bernstein
nice work ashwinn, this looks really nice. great to see people re-tackling social sharing, as facebook newsfeed is just not a satisfying experience.
Ashwinn
@bencbernstein thanks ben! We're trying to cut out some of the noise in sharing on networks like fb & twitter making it for sharing & discussing like you do in email or chat.
Ben Bernstein
@shwinnabego @bencbernstein i hear you, huge opportunity i think. we're also working on a social sharing tool that uses a different method, would be interesting to talk more, looks like you're also in new york :)