Show HN: Twosome - app created originally for my girlfriend

http://www.twosomeapp.com

by twanschik • 13 years ago

32 50 13 years ago

twosomeapp.com

cleverjake• 13 years ago

Also - http://trycouple.com/

D-Coder• 13 years ago

I'm waiting for ThreesomeApp.

nateabele• 13 years ago

Not hating, but something about that site makes me glad I haven't been 15 in a long-ass time.

methehack• 13 years ago

I think this is a great idea. FWIW, Couple (http://trycouple.com) seems way more complete than the OP's twosome.

joshmlewis• 13 years ago

Holy smokes, that intro video is almost tear jerking for some reason. Wow. I don't even know why but it tugged at my heart strings. Sheesh.

argarg• 13 years ago

The sushis they made look disgusting. Way too much rice.

tijs• 13 years ago

Haha, it didn't tug any of my strings but it's a very very well down product video nonetheless. Way beyond the usual, hey look at feature 1, 2, 3 etc. Love that it tells a little story and actually includes some drama instead of just all cheer. Kudos to whoever came up with that one.

ahoyhere8• 13 years ago

Watch it again and look closely at how the video focuses on the woman the entire time. She's child-like and the only one who seems emotionally involved in the relationship… but in almost exclusively passive way. (All the dude does is smirk for a fraction of a second when something "nice" occurs.)

Every interaction focuses on her. She kisses him on the cheek; he just looks at the camera. She kisses his picture during the "shaving" scene. She watches him walk down the street and talk at her on video… the only personal expression element of the "story" is his. She simply receives it. When she's upset, the focus is on what he does to her — the arm, the drawing, she receives the apology but never participates in a make-up.

It looks like the boyfriend is a prop. But the joke is it's that the woman, the focus of everything, is the prop, because it's from the boyfriend's PoV and she's just this super-emo recipient of his actions. Except when she's delivering outsized love he doesn't return (omg! the fawning! the kissing! the posing! the crying! all while he looks on and, if he expresses any emotion, just a smirk).

And if you don't believe about the childlike thing, it's capped by the scene at the end where she's hiding under a sheet with one stripey sock sticking out, a direct echo of "kids reading under the covers when the lights are out." No adult does that.

So: the video is assuming you, the male viewer, are a narcissist (everything is about you, and ps, you don't have access to real feelings), and that the object of your affection (not "girlfriend" because that implies a two-way street) is a baby.

This video is insulting to everyone. Sheesh!

smuss77• 13 years ago

if my gf gets that I'm gonna hate you

jwmoz• 13 years ago

I feel sick reading the copy on that site. FOREVER ALONE.

dotbill• 13 years ago

Sorry to the maker of this - but it just makes me want to be sick having an app like this..

I guess there are others that may enjoy this!

scrumper5• 13 years ago

Aaww, that is adorable, even if it is advertised by sickeningly youthful models who shouldn't even be holding hands without a chaperone. Good luck with it.

Please let us know if your sales figures are ever an odd number.

ninetax• 13 years ago

On the main picture: She's holding him but looking at me.

ben10402• 13 years ago

WHAT TWOSOME NEEDS Twosome has to be installed on your and your sweetheart's phone. To create the special link you need a connection to the internet just for the moment both of you bump your phones. It doesn't matter how Twosome gets the connection (WLAN, EDGE, UMTS,...). From this moment on, NO further connection to the internet is required.

I must be missing something, if "no further connection to the internet is required." How does it send messages between two devices without an internet connection? Presumably if it's on iOS it's not using SMS...

ecoffey• 13 years ago

I'm guessing it's syncing a seed to srand(), so neither of you control when the messages pop up

twanschik4• 13 years ago

That's correct. So once connected you will always get random notifications at the same time, even with NO network :)

scrumper5• 13 years ago

That's elegant.

So, OP, I have to know: did you come up with the synced seed first and then try to build an idea around it, or did the idea of simultaneous, server-less, auto-generated endearments drive you to this solution?

krosaen• 13 years ago

related, from the creator of Google Reader: https://avocado.io

kumarski• 13 years ago

facepalm.

thiagoperes• 13 years ago

Sorry to the maker of this - but it just makes me want to be sick having an app like this. [2]

I just keep thinking that people are so overwhelmed with this "there's an app for this" thing that they're forgetting to solve real problems.

jacalata• 13 years ago

It's brilliant.

1. onetime investment of a few minutes while you install the app and sync

2. secretly uninstall or turn off the app

3. your SO gets to feel like you're being sickeningly cute together constantly, and you don't have to do anything!

twanschik4• 13 years ago

Just one note: uninstalling the app will cancel all notifications. Just turn the app off to stay connected.

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