Anonymous Chatting, Through a Simple Service
Anonyfish was introduced in February and hosts around 600 messages each day.Secret, the popular mobile application, lets people share their deepest, darkest — and occasionally funniest — confessions anonymously, with their friends.
The application lets people see other people’s ‘secrets’ and comment on them, but it doesn’t yet include a way for them to message each other through the service.
So Philip Kaplan, a serial entrepreneur and a Secret user, cobbled together a simple and free service called Anonyfish that allows people to send private, anonymous messages to each other.
“I noticed that people were creating one-off Gmail accounts to talk to people from Secret, and I thought that was a waste,” he said in a recent phone interview.
His service, called Anonyfish, lets people create a user name that they can share with those they want to communicate with and then gives them access to a simple inbox for exchanging messages. The service is appealing to someone who might want to talk about something that was posted on Secret — like acquisitions rumors or accusations of workplace harassment — in private, but not reveal their full identity yet.
“Everything is encrypted,” he said. “I can’t even see the user names. It all looks like random characters and garbage.”
