24IDChat
Private anonymous messaging with temporary IDs, encrypted chats, and automatic message expiry.
What is 24IDChat?
24IDChat is a privacy-first messaging platform that lets you chat without signing up. You generate an anonymous ID, receive a Chat Token and a Login Token, and start conversations that are end-to-end encrypted. No email address or phone number is required, and the site states that it collects no tracking data, cookies, or analytics.
The platform is aimed at people who want private, short-lived conversations. Accounts and data auto-delete after 24 hours by default, though you can stop the timer to make an account permanent. Contacts are added by sharing a Chat Token, and the app supports text, voice notes, files and images up to 10MB, group chats, reactions, message forwarding, editing, and delete-for-everyone.
What sets it apart, according to the page, is its design around ephemerality and anonymity. Identity is a random token rather than a phone-linked account, and the product is positioned as a free alternative to WhatsApp, Telegram, and Messenger. It runs as a PWA, so it can be installed from the browser to the home screen without an app store download.
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Have onboarding questions, then a generic paywall, then more questions related to specific premium features, or even have users set up those premium features, then have a feature paywall and say these are part of the Premium plan. If they don't get it you explain to them everything they're going to lose.
Loss aversion: let users configure premium features before showing the paywall
Users invest effort building out a premium setup during onboarding, then hit a paywall that explicitly threatens to wipe what they just configured. The sunk-cost feeling does the persuasion that the first generic paywall couldn't. The second 'lose everything you set up' paywall is what actually converts the holdouts.
we still track like how often because I think should never say never right you should leave your doors open we always said like we're not doing the chatbot right and now here we are in like 2024 like maybe it makes sense for eventually for us to actually have a chat bot even though for years we're like we're not doing that that's like out of scope
Track every "no" so the tipping point becomes visible later
Out-of-scope feature requests don't get built, but they do get logged. Counting how often a request lands gives a tipping-point signal — what felt obviously off-scope (a chatbot) eventually becomes obviously core as the market shifts. Saying no today without locking the door shut tomorrow keeps optionality cheap.
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