TIL Beeper exists. Now I am on the wait list, and kind of sad I can't prepay for a year to skip the line.
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2022
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I used to use Trillian back in the day - I occasionally miss the convenience. Chatting on mobile mitigates the multi-chat annoyence a little through notifications but it's still irritating to try to remember where people are when I want to message them.
I seem to recall the downfall of Trillian was data breach. Also of course shortfalls where on different platforms there was different niche functionality that didn't carry across to Trillian.
The tech landscape has changed a lot since then, Beeper looks like it's got potential.
Wow that’s freaking cool on them! When I had an android phone I was trying to use this.
IKR! I absolutely love having all of my chats in one app. It's so unbelievably convenient. I've been a Beeper user now for 2 years.
Seems like a great app. I just signed up. Thanks for telling us about it.
As a diehard Pebbler, I still stand in awe of Eric and wish he'd give watches another go.
It's more limited because it's just WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram but Element One does the same thing (and no waitlist): https://element.io/element-one
I use it and it's great - it's "just" a paid service that runs on a Matrix server with the relevant bridges running. This is actually the same technology underneath that Beeper is built on (Beeper uses all the matrix bridges to do its work).
I was looking into setting up Matrix with all the bridges I need (Discord, Telegram, iMessage, SMS) but wasn't quite sure how to proceed. Since I got onto Beeper, the configuration has been pretty simple, and was pleasantly surprised I didn't need my Mac Mini constantly running to get iMessage working.