Although Greece is facing one of its toughest financial times, some of the most exciting early stage companies that exhibited at Web Summit 2014 were Greek.
Ok, you have just sent a nice tizU message to your friend.
Your hidden message is really "tizzy" and intriguing but you feel that this is not enough.
"Now what, I have to wait until the message opens?"
Not anymore. This is where the "Sound Buzzers" come in.
You can now send "buzz" sounds (push notifications) to your friends while a tizU message is still running, to tiz them even more about your hidden message and make them "die from curiosity"!
However to experience this funny feature you must have your Push Notifications turned on and believe us, you won't regret it, it is much better that way.
So make your friends' iphones shout "tizyaaa!" and keep them hooked on your hidden messages!
We "feel" your needs. ;)
Have fun tizErs!
the tizU team
ps: Be ware cause your friends can make your iphone shout too. ;)
This Wednesday, 11th June, we will be at Found.ation coworking space in Athens (Evristheos 2, K. Petralona) so as to test the new version of tizU with...You!
The event will be open for everyone and you are welcome to bring your own iOS device with you. There will be other iOS devices too.
Make sure you register for the event!
Event starts at 6pm (Greece time)
We will be really happy if you show up and we are looking forward to chatting with you in person.
Spiros had the idea of creating an app about the "told you so's" and it only took a few seconds until Apostolis said "Let's do this!". A lot of work during the hot, Greek summer followed, a really tough Autumn and Winter with countless hours spent over designing a really nice app, an app that we would love to use too. We met hundreds of people that really "hugged" tizU from the first time and numerous that helped us become better and better, always in their own way.
We won't ever keep track of our "product launch" anniversaries, cause this is not...us, this is not who we are. We want to remember something that really means a lot to us and tizU is far more than a product to us, it's an idea, a dream and will always stay like this, so as to keep working like there's no tomorrow to make it better.
So this is what we celebrate today and we are thankful for, the idea of tizU, that was born a year ago. We are thankful for trip so far, for all of you that keep playing with it and are willing to give feedback over every new version we release and for all these that will follow.
This is the 6min sum up video from our 3-month incubator Cosmote Startup.
It was an intensive yet wonderful and valuable program. We have been working at the same place along with other 9 awesome startups, we met many fantastic people and coaches and we truly accelerated the progress of tizU.
We wanna thank Cosmote Startup as well as Foundation, EEDE and our great coaches for this unique chance that they gave to us.
We inform you that there is a 6-hour downtime today, so you won’t be able to access tizU for that period of time. The downtime is needed for the maintenance and upgrade of our backend system.
We are doing our best to offer you better and better experience and as we promised you, we want to make tizU faster and more stable.
We are very happy to announce that tizU will be present at the upcoming TEDx event "Time Voyagers" that will take place at University of Piraeus on 26th of April. The event will host many great speakers from many different backgrounds that will tell us their stories. It will a quite interesting event, so tizU couldn't be absent.
Have you booked your ticket yet? Hurry they'll run out soon!
Visit the site for more info.
Cheers!
The tizU team
Ps: search for the special QR code card in the awesome delegate bag that guys at TEDx are preparing... #tizyaaa
It’s been only a few days since we got live on the App Store and I feel the personal need to give you a better picture about the inner reason we are building tizU. In other words, I would like to spare some words to explain why we are doing this, why we are building an app for teasing. So, let me start with a question:
Is teasing a characteristic of someone’s personality, is it in our nature?
Teasing has two definitions according with the Wiki as well, it’s either a bullying action or it’s a playful, flirting behaviour. Let’s forget the hurtful definition and stick to the playful one, which is the most interesting too.
What I realized during the last months, while we’ve been working on the app, is that when you tease someone about something you are actually “flirting”. Yes, flirting. Always. By saying flirting I don’t mean only sexually, but mostly metaphorically. (though, you may still tease sexually, don’t worry it’s totally healthy, even Wiki says that!)
What do I mean? I mean that you do “flirt” with the moment, you are flirting with laughing, with playing, with “tickling”, with the chance of “mocking” your friends, always in a good way though, just for fun, to have stories to tell and remember.
We tease our friends at school, we tease the girl or the boy we fall in love with, we tease the professor at the class, we get teased if our team loses, or if we take the wrong guess at a silly game. “Silly” I said? Not silly, I believe that the best word is: childish. And if you think that everything that is childish is “lost for ever” and never returns, just like childhood, allow me to be opposed to your opinion.
Childish means honest, fresh, genuine, real. Have you ever wondered why those “childish” games are so amusing? Because they’re classical. No matter what your age is, you still have fun with them, cause they’re pure Fun. This goes for teasing too. It is a childish habit that we either, unfortunately, forget as we grow older, as we get filled with our everyday negativity and duties.
This is the problem: The younger ones tend to imitate older people as they are considered to be more mature and since we are being raised taking as granted that elders are wiser and “righter”, we try to look like them. This is how society works. It’s a cycle. Same goes for teasing. Since older ones stop doing spontaneous things and they perceive teasing as a “childish” habit that they did while being young, the young ones follow too and they stop teasing, they stop being less spontaneous.
But let me ask you something:
If older people “know better”, why we are more miserable as we grow old and happier when we remember of our younger ages?
So this gives me the right to propose something else:
Let’s take youth as an example for once and try to imitate them, let’s do more “childish” things. I don’t necessary mean to take your Playmobil or LEGO at the office or just try to do things with less thinking and stop being afraid.
Teasing is the way we have fun with our friends, with our bestfriends or even with strangers. It’s all about “flirting” as we mentioned above, “flirting” with intense moments, “flirting” with life!
And we all want to have stories to remember, not only from our youth, though. It’s time to start thinking less and start teasing more to start feeling more, to live more…
Our Dream is to make Teasing a way of living.
And we’ve been taught since we’ve been young to chase our dreams, so that’s what we’ll do here at tizU, we will chase our dream.
tizU (version 1) is from now on available for free download on Apple's App Store!
This is a great milestone for us though we have lots of work to do.
We want to make an app that will be pure Fun!
We wanna thank you all for being our early supporters, for your awesome contribution until now and invite you to continue giving us your feedback which is really valuable to us, especially now that we've launched tizU!
So don't stop, this was only the start of a great journey that we want to enjoy alongside with you, having the same dream, the same vision:
"To make teasing a way of living."
Start teasing your friends like there's no tomorrow!
The new version took a longer time to be released but it contains numerous fixes and improvements that are mainly focused on the "Send New tizU" funnel and the UI of the app, so as to offer a better UX than the previous version.
We reacted according to the precious feedback that our awesome private beta testers gave us and we hope that we made tizU much more fun.
Of course there is still plenty of things to do but we think that this is a good start.
We made tizU reasonably faster and we polished a little bit the experience of sending a new tizU message. Many minor fixes were implemented too.
Now the next goal is to collect even more feedback from our awesome private beta testers about the updated version so as to keep improving the Teasing Experience.
Hello!
The registrations for our Private Beta (not Feta :P) are now closed!
Thank you for being one of the early adopters of our application! We have collected a really promising number of registrations within only 10 days. So here is the tough part: we have to pick only 100 of them to move on. But don't worry we promise that official launch won't be toο far away for those who won't be picked. ;)
We are really excited that the time has come to finally show our app to the first 100 testers. This will be the first time for us to test tizU in a larger scale so please "bombard" us with ideas and feedback!
Those registered for the beta received an email within the day with the next steps. Eventually the first invites will start within the weekend.
In the meantime you can "tiz" us through social media if you would like to stay tuned.
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