Beeper Mini is a full Android chat app designed for chatting with iPhone friends. With Beeper Mini, you are no longer a green bubble! When iPhone friends text you, your number shows up blue.
Hello Product Hunt!
I’ve been working on Beeper for 3 years now. Previously, I was a partner at YC and WAY before that I started a smartwatch company called Pebble.
Today, we’re excited to announce Beeper Mini. It’s our beautiful new Android app built specifically to send and receive blue bubble messages to friends with iPhones.
Beeper Mini has three major new features compared to our first generation Beeper app:
- Send and receive iMessages to your phone number, not only an email address.
- Beautiful new design, blazing fast speed.
- Full end-to-end encryption.
- Standalone Android app - no desktop/laptop required.
Available to download today, no waitlist. Get it on the Play store https://play.google.com/store/ap... try it out for yourself!
As soon as you install Beeper Mini, your Android phone number will be blue instead of green when your iPhone friends text you. It’s easy to join iPhone-only group chats, since people can add your phone number instead of your email address. All chat features like typing status, read receipts, full resolution images/video, emoji reactions, voice messages, editing/unsending etc are supported.
Beeper Mini is free to try for 7 days. After that, we charge $1.99 per month. Our business model is simple - we build a great app and earn money from those who find value in it. We feel that this business model aligns our success with your best interests. No ads. Complete data security and privacy.
If you’re interested in learning more about how Beeper works, check out our announcement post https://blog.beeper.com/p/introd..., and How Beeper Mini works https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-be....
Apple has a cultural moat with the blue bubble. I’m curious to see who Beeper Mini appeals to most (kids, professionals, etc).
First, Congratulations on the launch.
The app is smooth, nice and tight UI/UX. I installed this today, the first problem I had was it wouldn't let me verify with google account, then after reading FAQs, I resolved it. The next problem I'm having is phone verification, It wouldn't verify, the verification starts but fails after few moments. I'll be waiting for this to be fixed because otherwise texting with email as contact identifier isn't friendly and is inconvenient.
I'm excited and optimistic for Beeper's future. Getting all of my messgae in one app in future is exciting.
can't wait for Beeper Mini to become Beeper🤞
Really love this idea. Will you share a blog about how to do this in the future? :)
Congrats on your launch!
iMessage is a great MOAT for Apple and for year they've protected it as much as possible and recent RCS integration announcement is a surprise. $1.99 is a great deal for people who don't want to move to iPhone or use Android but have to due to iMessage. Will test it out
simple, solve a recurring problem for many people, something people want and need, honest business model. congrats!
So cool! This is gonna make people so happy!
Also great to see the product progress!
Pretty cool. Nothing should have partnered with Beeper when they tried to implement this 2 weeks ago. Now they have "nothing" 😏
This is great news, congrats on the launch team 🚀 Beeper idea is similar to creating portals between two realms, it is highly technical and more challenging than it seems. Good luck with finding the niche that it deserves.
amazing!
Feedback: the Google play install link in Eric's comment doesn't work for me, takes me to Google Play app and says something went wrong
About Beeper Mini on Product Hunt
“iMessage client for Android”
Beeper Mini launched on Product Hunt on December 5th, 2023 and earned 202 upvotes and 23 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. Beeper Mini is a full Android chat app designed for chatting with iPhone friends. With Beeper Mini, you are no longer a green bubble! When iPhone friends text you, your number shows up blue.
Beeper Mini was featured in Android (57.1k followers), Messaging (51.9k followers) and iMessage Apps (22.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 51.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Beeper Mini?
Beeper Mini was hunted by Ryan Hoover. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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