1000%

It's so much work. We still have so much to do.

Whenever a team considers adding messaging to their app, I always remind them of the 1970s FedEx tagline: “When it absolutely, positively has to be there.”

That’s basically the standard you’re up against. Messaging is the most brutally competitive space on Earth. Replacing a https://t.co/idNhyR82wa

Nikita Bier

1000%

It's so much work. We still have so much to do.

https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1928847135216382109

the only way new messaging surfaces work is opening up a new way to reach people - increase reachability instead of replacing an existing surface. 

if I have someone's phone number who is also on here, I might iMessage them but if I have never contacted them before, I can now message them instead of needing to figure out a way. FB Messenger is a good early example of this. Started even before WhatsApp but didn't get as popular (list of reasons, separate story). 

This increasing reachability is pretty much the only way new messaging spaces have taken off since WhatsApp (which replaced the only mobile p2p messaging before that - SMS). IG Direct is an example of this which came about later but does pretty well. 

Working on Messenger directly helped me understand a lot re: reachability, pushability, etc. (and obv UX bar et al)

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yeah that still happens and is the main mode of messaging in many south east asian countries

messenger revenue from thailand was more than 2% of the country's GDP when I was there 

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messenger was innovative and fun to use. 

I had friends use it that didn’t use their main fb account, they just had it so they could do messenger.