Is there a good app for send disappearing messages?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
77
Opportunity /100
84
Demand /100
33
Competition /100
92
Execution gap /100
2
Apps serving it
19
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to send disappearing messages, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| messages disappear instantly when sent | bug | 1 | Every time I try to send anyone a message it instantly disappears |
| disappearing messages auto-enabled by other party with no way to keep them | missing-feature | 1 | yo lo quito y el otro lo pone automático se borra |
| messages disappeared without warning | bug | 1 | All my messages disappeared without any warning or explanation |
| disappearing messages persist after toggle off | bug | 1 | even after turning off message disappearing tab it disappears need fix |
| messages disappear before playing | reliability | 1 | open it, and before I can play it the entire conversation is deleted |
| app loses messages | bug | 1 | the app had lost so many messages |
| messages get deleted and can't be recovered | bug | 1 | my messages get deleted & can never get them back |
| message history disappears | bug | 1 | message history disappears |
| deleted messages not reliably removed for recipient | bug | 1 | sometimes it is deleted, but other times it remains visible in her chat |
| texts unexpectedly set to disappearing | bug | 1 | all of my texts to a friend on messenger are coming up disappearing text. How do I get out of that? |
| auto-deletes old messages | reliability | 1 | now delete old messages |
| conversations disappear and can't restart | bug | 1 | the conversation disappears, and goes back to the "Added" page and will not let me restart |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal - Private Messenger | 4.7★ | 1,044,424 | Free |
| Messenger | 4.7★ | 12,628,153 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 77 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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