How To Create An SMS Text Bot In 10 Minutes
The simplest way to create a text bot without coding. It takes 10 minutes with a visual tool to create interactions and your bot is live.
Easiest Way to Create a Chatbot For Your Business
Most businesses are starting to use text messaging as the preferred way to communicate with their customers, especially through chatbots and SMS. This makes sense as it’s the only 2-way communication channel that hasn’t been spammed (like email)...
Thinking About Building the Next Tinder? Here’s How You Can Stand Out
Dating apps have become the new normal, especially during the coronavirus pandemic, and many developers are trying to make the new Tinder or Bumble. The problem is that the dating app market is already overcrowded and it’s tough to create an app...
Half of Americans Already Lost Income from Coronavirus
The COVID-19 pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on almost everyone. Measures to respond to the outbreak and ensure public safety, like stay-at-home orders and suspending travel, have resulted in lost income for many. Today (3/25/20), just in week 1 into shutdowns...
How to Convert Line Messages to Text (SMS) On Android
Line, along with WhatsApp, is one of the few messaging apps that allows you to “export” a conversation. Now there’s a way to copy a single Line conversation into your local texting or SMS/MMS database on Androids. Once you download and open up Mei, you’ll be prompted to allow it to be your default SMS app. This...
Messaging Improved – Now With RCS
At Mei we are committed to improving your messaging experience and believe RCS is the future of messaging. We’re working on supporting RCS and it will be available in upcoming releases. Rich Communication Services (RCS) is a type of messaging protocol that will upgrade...
All State Polling From Mei
In November 2018, we piloted our polling platform on the US Midterm Elections. We sent 10,000 short midterm election polls to our users for select Senate and Governor races across the U.S. These polls provided almost instant results from our voting user base, with many responding within 10 minutes and the vast majority within 30 minutes...
Poll: Should 16 And 17 Year Olds Be Allowed To Vote?
At the time of writing this blog post it is currently election day in the US. So I thought it would be fun to make a poll relating to voting. In most elections you must be 18 or older to vote. But I wanted to know if Mei users agreed with this. So I sent out a poll asking, “should 16-17 year olds be allowed to vote?”
Work On Your Professional Relationships With Mei!
These days so many of our relationships are developed and managed via our mobile phone, in particular, our messaging apps. We use messaging apps to text our friends, keep up to date with family and arrange dates. But it’s not just our personal life, we also manage our professional relationships via text
Poll: The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Last week I made a poll asking what Mei users thought the world’s biggest problem was. This week I decided to do something a bit different. In this weeks poll you have 2 choices: A, and B. If everyone picks A, I will use the winner poll system to let everyone split a prize of 100 Mei credits. Seems simple enough, well there’s one little complication, answer B. If exactly one person picks answer B, they win the entire...
Poll: What Are The World’s Biggest Problems?
It seems these days that the world is plagued with issues. Everyday we hear news stories about rising temperatures, people starving, and mass murderers running rampant. It seems like there is no hope for the world. But I wanted to see what Mei users thought about all this. So I sent out a poll with two questions...
How to Convert WhatsApp Messages to Text (SMS) for Android
Generally, there isn’t an easy way to take all the conversations you’ve had over the years on one messaging platform to another. But thanks to a feature in WhatsApp that allows you to “export” a single conversation, now there’s a way to copy a single WhatsApp conversation into...
What Do Men And Women Message About?
If we believe language is a window into people’s thoughts, then studying word usage can lend insight to how different groups — for example, men and women — think differently. Fortunately, with the growth of digital media, researchers have been able to collect language samples on a much larger scale...
Mei Announces Its Launch With A Major Expansion Of Features
Before launching, we wanted to make Mei a better texting app than the ones that are pre-installed on Android phones. It was a long road of bug fixes and improvements but after almost a year of beta testing, we’re pretty much there! We feel we’ve ironed out the major issues...
User Created Polling
Users have had the ability to answer polls sent through by Mei for a couple of months, but now you are able to create your own polls to send to other Mei users! Imagine being able to poll 100 people your nephew’s age the next time you’re looking for ideas for his birthday gift or ask people to resolve an argument between your friends about the best pizza toppings! The possibilities are endless...
Create and Manage Your Own Social Network, With Mei
Ever want to reach out to friends, co-workers or family members with the same message, without spamming everyone in one large group chat (with “reply all” alerts that never seem to stop….)? Well Mei has the answer for that. Following our introduction of folders and labels, Mei’s next update...
What Will Messaging Look Like In 2020 and Beyond?
A messaging app will likely be the most valuable piece of technology in the world within the next decade. The question is, who will own it? The value of messaging has been evident for some time. By 2015, messaging had surpassed social media as the most common activity on the mobile...
Become a Supporter of Mei!
Mei Introduces In-App Credits. Mei is growing rapidly and we are now among the highest rated messaging apps in the Play Store (4.5 stars from over 11,000 reviews!). We have received feedback from thousands of users who want to be part of Mei and help us to continue to grow and we have wondered for a while now how to...
Did The Wrong Movie Win An Oscar?
The Academy Awards make for great water cooler conversation, as co-workers take part in office pools and debate who they feel should come out on top during the film industry’s biggest night. This year’s Oscar season was marked by several changes – from continued promises of a much...
All You Need Is Love
February 14th has traditionally been a day to celebrate love and affection. Over the years the holiday has become more commercialized and the National Retail Federation estimate that Americans spend $18.2 billion on Valentine’s Day, that’s an average of $136.57 per person. However, in 2019 is this “Hallmark Holiday”...
Mei Introduces The First Automatic Text Message Spam Filter
As companies increasingly use texting or messaging to communicate with customers, the need for texting spam protection is growing. Mei is proud to be the first texting app to broadly roll out an in-app spam filter. We even beat Google to it.
Not So Super Bowl?
The Super Bowl has consistently been the most watched TV event in the US for decades, but since the all-time record between the Patriots and Seahawks in 2015, with 114.4 million reported viewers, the numbers have been trending down. Last year’s game drew 103.4 million viewers, the lowest total viewership for a Super...
How AI Will Shape The Future of Wellness
Each day the press is filled with stories about the harm that technology is having on our health, both physical and mental. From screen time that impacts our sleep and eyesight, weight gain from a more sedentary lifestyle, to the ways in which social media effects our mental health and mood.
Mei Introduces Folders And Labels To Help Manage Text Messages
Text messages are beginning to feel more like email. Many of us receive cell plan updates, receipts, alerts, travel information and all kinds of notifications via SMS. We need better tools to make sure certain conversations don’t easily get lost in the mix. In our latest update, we’re introducing...
This Surprising Christmas Carol Is Number One Amongst Women
America’s favorite Christmas carols in poll after poll have always been classics like “Silent Night” and “Jingle Bells”. Then the great culture wars of 2018 happened and suddenly there is a new contender: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”. In a poll conducted this weekend...