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Life & fun · November 30, 2021

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Akia allows businesses to build and send apps that don't need download

Hi HN! We're Evan and Yinshi from Akia (https://akia.com). We've built a customer engagement platform that specializes in the building and distribution of Mini Apps-- apps (if you will) that don't require download or login. You can send one yourself (this is a relatively naive example): https://sys.akia.com/demo/textme We're looking to solve a problem local service businesses face around the fact that consumers are not very likely to discover and download a native app. We initially built Akia to solve workflows using text-messaging and NLP, but quickly…

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Hi HN! We're Evan and Yinshi from Akia (https://akia.com). We've built a customer engagement platform that specializes in the building and distribution of Mini Apps-- apps (if you will) that don't require download or login. You can send one yourself (this is a relatively naive example): https://sys.akia.com/demo/textme We're looking to solve a problem local service businesses face around the fact that consumers are not very likely to discover and download a native app. We initially built Akia to solve workflows using text-messaging and NLP, but quickly discovered that the last mile on NLP is very hard and consumers are happier using a mobile-optimized interface. We did a small pivot and have found a lot of success mitigating the challenges that businesses were initially looking at solving with native solutions. By developing app-like experiences in the browser to be sent over text, Akia is building and distribution in one package. We're running up against our $1M milestone and are now expanding into other verticals. Would love thoughts and feedback, especially on use-cases that you think we've missed, or might be particularly interesting for this tech.

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