(Users continue to pay their own normal SMS fees.)Īnd wouldn’t you know it, MightyText has bigger ambitions than texting.
They raised $650,000 last year from investors including Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital and 500 Startups, and are in the midst of raising another seed-style round on AngelList.īut it’s not like Arora and Sangani are big spenders the company employs only three people total, and it doesn’t pay carrier SMS or Twilio fees since the listening app basically treats the phone as a proxy server for the text transmissions. Both Maneesh Arora and Amit Sangani were longtime Googlers, working in product and engineering on AdSense and mobile ads. MightyText hasn’t had any trouble raising money from venture capitalists and angels, in large part due to its two founders’ pedigrees. Ninety percent of its app ratings are five-star. Those numbers are still relatively small - consider the hit messaging app WhatsApp now sends and receives as many as 10 billion messages per day - but MightyText is already much loved. Since launching late last year, MightyText has been installed more than 600,000 times, and it’s on pace to sync 2.3 billion messages per year. But just that narrow slice of functionality is useful for many people.
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MightyText is very much like an Android version of Apple’s iMessage, and it’s a subset of what Google Voice offers. MightyText allows you to keep up with the conversation from your computer. Say your phone happens to be in your bag, or you’re traveling internationally or you’re in a place where it would be inappropriate to text. So, when a normal text is received by an Android phone while the MightyText app is listening in, it gets simultaneously pushed to apps and plugins on the user’s other devices, such as computers or tablets. The tiny start-up MightyText syncs text messages across devices. Sometimes a simple tweak to the most mundane thing makes the biggest difference.
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