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Here at Trigger we're all ravenous consumers of information. We really love some of the existing app solutions but we noticed a few drawbacks. The majority sacrificed timeliness for social relevance or depth. We often got our news later than friends who weren't using aggregators! We also found ourselves living in an increasingly small filter bubble because many of these apps were defining what we'd be interested in by what's popular in our social graph. Trigger is our first attempt at addressing these problems. We hand curate sources (to ensure quality inputs) and use a predictive algorithm to bring you news before it starts trending.

We've also got a kind of cool "extra-social" discovery feature OVERLOOKED that finds the most interesting things your social graph ISN'T reading.

We'd love if you'd check us out and let us know what you think over at itunes.apple.com/us/app/id968265755


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


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


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


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.


Hi Scrumper,

Thanks!

Web is very coming soon!

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


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.


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


upadted, cheers for pointing it out!


typo here too! :p


:)


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.


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