Tentacles - the social messaging buddy

Ever wanted to message all your friends from a single place?

Bringing you "Tentacles"

Sorry, let me try again. Brining you (drumroll)...TENTACLES, the social messaging buddy

OK, so I am no web designer and perhaps this is not the greatest idea but here me out.

I want to fly the next as covered in this article and I need the #steemit communities' help to do it. In this case, brainstorming #ideas or even hearing all the problems you have with these ideas will help me grow and chase my #dreams.

What is it?

• Gives you the ability to send messages via multiple platforms form a single place, a single app.

Benefits?

• No need to download several apps and/or visit lots of websites.

Monestisation

• Paid for App download? $0.99?

How does it work?

• A contact would be built out containing the following:
  • Phone number
  • Email address
  • Facebook ID
  • Twitter account name
  • etc.
• Depending on the accounts held against the "contact" the available options for messaging would be adjusted e.g. no twitter handle? Button is removed as a send option.
• A text based message would be constructed, as constraints per social / messaging platform are broken, the option to post to those media would be removed.
  • As you increase the size of your message, social options would be removed automatically such as Twitter if you exceeded 140 chars.
• Ability to include attachments and images.
• Messages sent and received would be displayed in a single place, grouped/split by "contact".

Cost to build?

• MVP in 4 weeks with 2 coders?

Assumptions

• It's not already been done before? Any ideas #steemit?
• Social media and messaging platforms such as What's App and FaceBook have open API's that let you send and retrieve messages?
• This solves a real problem people have? Does using multiple platforms annoy you?

Would you use this tool?

Let me know what you think but please be gentle lol :)

Some of my articles:
https://steemit.com/life/@jimbo/why-am-i-so-scared-to-start-a-business
https://steemit.com/steemit/@jimbo/what-is-an-steemit-whale

Cheers
@jimbo

#business #ideas #steemit #socialmedia