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Paste Drops
Cyclops calms your angry texts and roasts you a little
Paste (or speak) the message you're about to regret, and Cyclops, a one-eyed desk mascot, hands back a version that won't get you blocked or fired. He roasts you a bit for how heated you got, then reads the calm version aloud in the accent of your choice (Irish, Aussie, Scottish, British, American), in virtually any language. Pick your bite: sensible, petty, or talk-me-out. He steams, dozes, squeaks, and hides a few easter eggs. No account, no ads, nothing stored. Free.
I built this because of the 1am texts we all almost send. My thumb has hovered over send on things that would've genuinely cost me, and I wanted a cooldown step that was fun rather than preachy. So Cyclops roasts you a little on the way to calming you down, and sometimes just flatly tells you you'll get fired if you send that.
A few things I'd love thoughts on:
Does the roast land as funny, or tip into annoying? I've been tuning that balance for a while.
Which accent gets you? The broad Scottish reading back your polite message does something to me.
It works in virtually any language, so I'm curious how the rewrites feel outside English.
It's honestly just as fun to feed it something stupid when you're not even angry, so don't feel you need to be in a rage to try it.
It's a solo project, no account, no ads, nothing stored. On Android now, plus a web version at app.pastedrops.com (fair warning, the web UI still needs love). Every bit of feedback genuinely helps, thank you for taking a look.
Small over-the-air (ota) updates prelaunch. Good thing about ota updates are that the user doesn't need to download a new app version, it just silently delivers.
Tweaked the personality, range and accents of our resident mascot, Cyclops, who also got his own backstory for why he has so many accents and knows so many languages.
Cyclops roasting me for losing it over a parking ticket then reading the calm version in an Irish accent genuinely cracked me up. The petty mode is dangerous but the talk-me-out option is unexpectedly useful.
Hey yeah that was an early UX worry and I've tried to make it vary a lot. Maybe it's not a daily use app anyway and possibly a party truck. But I will work on that algo for making it more varied.
The roast is the interesting design choice. A tool that just says "maybe don't send that" is a scold, and people uninstall scolds. Making it funny means the intervention costs the user less pride than it otherwise would.
Does the humor stay funny on the tenth time, though? That's the thing I'd expect to decide retention. A joke you've heard before while you're genuinely angry might land worse than no joke at all.
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“Cyclops calms your angry texts and roasts you a little”
Paste Drops was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 10 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #23 on the daily leaderboard. Paste (or speak) the message you're about to regret, and Cyclops, a one-eyed desk mascot, hands back a version that won't get you blocked or fired. He roasts you a bit for how heated you got, then reads the calm version aloud in the accent of your choice (Irish, Aussie, Scottish, British, American), in virtually any language. Pick your bite: sensible, petty, or talk-me-out. He steams, dozes, squeaks, and hides a few easter eggs. No account, no ads, nothing stored. Free.
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