Sms App

Comic: the host on a couch at night holds his phone as different-colored musical notes float out of it and contact bubbles orbit him, one with a gold star. He says I KNOW WHO IT IS BY THE SOUND.

Making It Mine

MY OWN TEXTING · MESSAGE 06 · THE GOOD PARTOnce it's your app, "I wish it could…" stops being a complaint and turns into a to-do item. Version 0.3, the same night Version 0.2 went live at 6:27 PM on September 23. Version 0.3 went live at 7:38 PM. That hour was mostly testing, because the features had been built that afternoon alongside everything else. Here’s what I got. ...

Comic: the host glares at his phone while a gremlin inside the screen rubs out his half-typed text with a giant eraser and another smothers a notification bell with a pillow. He yells STOP EATING MY TEXTS!

Six Hours Later: The First App

MY OWN TEXTING · MESSAGE 04 · VERSION ZEROThe fastest way to learn what you want is to use something that isn't it. The question My first instinct on port day was to skip apps entirely. I live in Telegram, so I asked for a bot that would let me text through it “so I don’t have to deal with a weird app.” That works for alerts. It’s miserable for actual conversations with forty different people. ...