Path Talk — Smart, Private Messaging

I've been a long time user of TalkTo. Path just announced its acquisition and release of Talk. Yo, @davemorin! Congrats. :)

was about to post it- damn you @rrhoover

Thanks @mulligan really appreciate it. Our thought was that the places in your life are deeply intertwined with your personal relationships. After work, you head out to dinner with family and friends, being able to get a reservation quickly in real time just like sending a text seemed like it would save people time and give that time to hanging out in person.

This is absolutely amazing. TalkTo integration will be super interesting going forward. The quick reply use-cases are brilliant. Well polished. This is how you communicate a product update.

@adamevers we agree. We think the intersection of messaging and commerce is a huge opportunity, and mostly dark to the Internet right now. We do plan on providing a variety of interesting APIs here as well.

Speaking of super powers this goes way beyond a remote control of the world. To form meaningful connections we as humans want to talk to everything that we have a mental concept of. #mindblown

@mbavio criticism is an important part of the creative process. In this case, this only offers one side of the spectrum of opinion on this debate. If you talk to product people in Asia they will argue that serving as many use cases as possible in a messaging app leads to the most engagement per day. They then try hard to simplify the workflows so that the user has access to many powerful use cases. Then, pursue continuous improvement of a complex system. The prevailing opinion in America is that serving a single use case is the right direction. For the most part, the American opinion is also that "innovation" equals new content formats. My thoughts on innovation in social in general are here if you are interested: https://medium.com/design-philos...

I'm really interested to see how TalkTo adds to Path. Seems like such different apps. Always interesting to see a company make a big move like that.

I also think this is really smart of the Path team. They're messaging feature was gorgeous but buried behind too many taps. Will be cool to see it on it's own.

The idea of being able to talk with businesses is interesting. Love that it was included on the landing page as coming soon. What a great way to monetize the application. Hopefully from a management perspective they'll be APIs tools/platforms can plug into.

@davemorin nice. TalkTo was one of the few recent apps that felt magical. Nice pickup!

App looks great! Being a "Handmade sticker artist" sounds like one sweet gig :)

@__tosh thank you, means a lot to us to hear that from you.

@kristoferTM we're hiring! :)

@__tosh exactly. As we started thinking through how to approach messaging more deeply we began to wonder: what if you could interact with anything through messaging?

The first time I used TalkTo was very similar to the first time I used Uber. It's a magical experience. Texting local businesses is superior in every way to calling them. Brilliant move by Path, both in the acquisition and to spin out a messaging app. I'll gladly pay a monthly fee for unlimited messages to businesses, and likely spend more time in the app engaging with friends because of it. Congrats, @davemorin!

@delk thanks. We really appreciate it. It is truly magical, we can't wait to bring it to people at a larger scale.

Most products are distracting and take more of my time which is why I'm most interested in Place Messaging (the ability to text messages business). TalkTo is awesome but frankly the app lacked soul and personality, something Path certainly has. @davemorin Place messaging hasn't launched yet but can you give us a peak into how it's going to work?

^ +1 to that.

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