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It's sort of like Snapchat for the text world A mobile app called "Strings" is making waves by offering users messages that they can remotely delete if they later regret what they've done. Sent a drunk text to an ex? Sent an embarassing selfie to a coworker? Strings may fix that, if you realize the error of your ways in time.
It's a bit surprising that someone hadn't come up with this yet -- or at least if someone had that it hadn't gotten traction.
Google Inc. (GOOG) famously offered up a humorous "Goggles" extension to its Gmail service to prevent potentially embarassing drunken emails by forcing users to solve logic puzzles and think things over when a rash sounding message was detected.
But Strings goes well beyond that with the ability to digitally self-destruct messages, and purge your entire profile, even, if need be.
In some regards the app's premise resembles that of the incredibly popular picture sharing service "Snapchat", whose messages are tightly controlled and self-delete after a set period of time. But Strings takes things to the next level in the text world allowing you to remotely retract your ill considered texts.
Created by Edward Balassanian and Damon Ganem, a pair of developers who founded a Seattle, Wash. app incubator called "Be Labs", Strings also bears some resemblance to UK based social network "Ello" who promises users not to monetize with ads or data mining.
Except, unlike Ello who has vague plans to monetize in the distant future with some sort of app platform offering, Strings appears to have literally no way to monetize itself, other than perhaps crowdraising.
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