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Every other messaging app races to deliver instantly. Fold does the opposite on purpose: you fold your note into a paper airplane and throw it across a real map, and it takes real-world time to arrive. The time is shaped by the actual distance between you and your friend, the plane you chose, and the live wind along its route. A message to someone across town might land in minutes. One to the other side of the planet can take days or weeks. You can open the map and watch it fly.
When I was a kid and had no phone, I used to send messages to my neighbours and colleagues in school written on a paper and fold as airplanes. The distances were short, but it felt really nice back then. Internet made everything faster and somehow impersonal, so I decided to send messages written on airplanes to my friends again, except now they are across and entire ocean and the messages take days to travel at the speed of a paper airplane. That's the idea behind Fold.
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About Fold on Product Hunt
“Send messages at the speed of a paper airplane”
Fold was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 9 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #38 on the daily leaderboard. Every other messaging app races to deliver instantly. Fold does the opposite on purpose: you fold your note into a paper airplane and throw it across a real map, and it takes real-world time to arrive. The time is shaped by the actual distance between you and your friend, the plane you chose, and the live wind along its route. A message to someone across town might land in minutes. One to the other side of the planet can take days or weeks. You can open the map and watch it fly.
Fold was featured in Messaging (52k followers), Funny Games (2.2k followers) and Maps (12.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 18.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Fold?
Fold was hunted by Andre Fantin. 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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