Pony Messenger

Pony is a messenger that delivers once a day.

Available for iOS, Android, and on the web.

[blockhiro @blockhiro]

Just discovered @PonyHQ interesting premise (messages delivered once a day at the same time everyday), like an anti-twitter, a kinda throwback to handwritten notes but via mobile app

[Pony Messenger @PonyHQ]

@ShriramKMurthi @jeffbigham @johnregehr There's an Atlantic article for that https://t.co/q3x12fucCZ

[Pony Messenger @PonyHQ]

@anneohirsch @cfbolz @ShriramKMurthi We just launched a new invite feature to help out with this! You can share an invite link or send emails, and anyone who joins will be directly connected to you.

[Pony Messenger @PonyHQ]

@georgemporter @johnregehr @jeffbigham @ShriramKMurthi This is exactly right!

[Pony Messenger @PonyHQ]

@ShriramKMurthi Thank you for sharing!

And we're working on it :). Not exactly once-a-day Twitter, but something even better. Looking forward to announcing next month.

[Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) @ShriramKMurthi]

Anyone else here trying out @PonyHQ? I love the premise (messages delivered and picked up once a day)—the anti-IM—but network effects…

A once-a-day Twitter would be so awesome. (It'd be effectively a different app for a different purpose, but awesome.)

[Pony Messenger @PonyHQ]

@OwenYoung_zh I believe in the 90s and early 2000s there were some not-so-small companies that had internal email systems that did what you describe: email was exchanged once an hour, and you could override it to be instant in case something was actually urgent.

[Rachel A. Adler @RachelA_Adler]

For a better internet, we’ll need to curb our online interactions, writes @ibogost. Could slower email be a start? https://t.co/KOGTvFTMA0

[Giz Brasil @giz_brasil]

O inventor do app Pony Messenger celebra a tendência "slow web" e quer resgatar o sentimento de enviar cartas. https://t.co/OTr9DJjbk4

[Subrahmanyam KVJ @SuB8u]

We seem to have come a full circle. There’s now an app for…mimicking postal mail.

Is slowing down the Internet the answer to reclaiming a sense of sanity from the feature/notification sensory overload that we deal with daily?
https://t.co/E29OWiUWzV

[Pony Messenger @PonyHQ]

The medium is the message!

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"[T]he form and content of #communications are tightly coupled. What one thinks to say, let alone manages to express, arises from a #technology’s constraints and affordances": https://t.co/fLVlXk4KiW #ethics #internet

[GovExec @GovExec]

The Subversive Genius of Extremely Slow Email
https://t.co/jmcnauq5Ef

[Michael Schofield @schoeyfield]

I want. "Pony Messenger. You compose a message and put it in an outbox; once a day (you can choose morning, afternoon, or evening “pickups”), Pony picks up your outbound dispatches and delivers your inbounds. That’s it. It’s postal-service cosplay. It’s slow email."

[Pony Messenger @PonyHQ]

Exactly this, and in a non-work context as well: what is urgent and what is not? What actually benefits from instantaneity?

[Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski]

The responsibility of management is to recognize those rare moments when urgency is required—when somebody actually needs a quick response—rather than set urgency as the default baseline. That's ultimately what slow computing and slow email boils down.

[Carrie Tian @carrietian]

I've found @PonyHQ charming! just like getting mail at summer camp.

makes me think through which of my friendships thrive in IMs, or in sporadic letters or calls, or rambly dinner convos...

I'm @ carrie on the app if you wanna say hi. lots of good usernames still avail :)

[Joe Pinsker @jpinsk]

I can't stand the phrase "Sorry for my delay," and yet I find myself writing it all. the. time.

Here's my rant (plus some thoughts about what we could say instead):

https://t.co/muw4HJ5WfR @TheAtlantic

[GovExec @GovExec]

The Subversive Genius of Extremely Slow Email https://t.co/Je363475MK

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

For a better internet, we’ll need to curb our online interactions, writes @ibogost. Could slower email be a start? https://t.co/jLG6FfZPYc