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Hookflash invites going out today

By Erik Lagerway | February 15, 2012 | hookflash | No comments

Just a quick update… We are launching the Hookflash invite preview this week. Yay! First group of users have already begun receiving their invites. There will be 60 invites going out this week so keep an eye out for it.

Remember, if you don’t make it into the first round of invites, don’t dismay there will be more coming as Hookflash for iPad makes its way into the app store. Down the road we’ll pick another batch of users from the invite list, so don’t give up there just yet :)

If you’d like to lend us a hand, please take this quick 3 question survey here: Hookflash Invite Preview Survey. Your answers will give us more information on how we can help you best, and we’ll use the feedback to plan our feature roadmap.

There were a few temporary issues that arose up which caused a delay for some of our planned features in this early release. Here is the revised initial set of features at launch:

Social Sign-in – Why would you want another user ID to manage?
Group Text – Across your entire social address book
HD Audio Calls – Call anyone across your entire social network
HD Video Calls – Face the name you see everyday
Social Context – Recent activity per contact
Social Caller ID – Context for your inbound call
Social Feed – What’s happening in your world

Looking forward to seeing you in Hookflash!

The Hookflash Team

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hookflash for iPad | early access

By Erik Lagerway | December 22, 2011 | apple, hookflash, ipad, Startups, tablet, twitter | Comments Off

Update: Top 60 users selected

Thank to everyone for participating! We saw some great feature suggestions and general comments. We will be sending out a message to those selected by the beginning of February. We will also be updating our progress on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Thanks again!

-Erik

 

For those who signed up for the hookflash for iPad early preview, thank you for signing up!

We have received thousands of early access requests, which we take as a great sign!

But now we are faced with a dilemma.

Considering Apple limits us to 100 test accounts prior to launching in the app store, who gets in!?  We need 40 accounts for our own internal use and testing. That leaves 60 accounts for our early access users.

It seemed clear to us that we should let our users decide who gets in. The process would have to be fair and would need to be publicly monitored so nobody feels jilted. So here’s the deal, if you want in, this is what you need to do…

  1. Follow @hookflash on Twitter.
  2. Tweet about the feature you would like to see most in hookflash for the iPad. Could be a design element, feature, interoperability request etc. Be sure to include @hookflash in your post.
  3. The top 60 people with the most Twitter mentions (must include @hookflash) before January 6 2012, will get a spot in the early preview.

Tweet as many times as you like. We will announce the winners the first week in January. Who knows, maybe your suggestion will make it into the product!

For those who win, see you in hookflash! Good luck to all who decide to participate.

Our very best wishes to everyone this holiday season!

Erik Lagerway
co-founder – hookflash

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