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Re:Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood by neogodless on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:51PM (#43473998)
Insert joke that every app eventually evolves into an email (or chat) client?

More seriously, what differentiates your idea (or hope of execution) from NextDoor, and how would the app improve upon WhatsApp or other messaging clients that might already be ubiquitous? (I'm in the U.S. and sadly WhatsApp is not even close to Ubiquitous - but SMS/MMS is.)

Overall how would having to install an app, create an account, sign up, find contacts, etc. improve upon the connections the original article formed through in person meetings in shared space, and the communications they did with an existing communications app?

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Re:Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood by kwertyoowiyop on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @02:08PM (#43474131)
These days, replace “email client” with “social network.”
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Re:Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood by alabastervlog on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @03:35PM (#43474982)
Social networks could just be email clients. They're not, because those are hard to put a moat around.
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