A thread in Wavelength chat. Image Credits:<\/strong> Wavelength<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI had been thinking about the idea of threaded private chat going back to when we first started working on Telepath. When it was just Marc and I using the very first Telepath prototype, we used it for all kinds of conversations \u2014 naming the product, hiring our first engineer, chatting about dinner, etc. I remember thinking this is awesome, it\u2019s basically a threaded private messaging app,\u201d Henry said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe considered just building private groups into Telepath as a feature, but we felt strongly that private chat needs strong end-to-end encryption, with messages stored on the device rather than in the cloud. So Wavelength needed to be a totally new product.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team said that in today\u2019s group chat, you can talk about only one thing at a time. It noted that people often just mute group chats because they don\u2019t want to get notified about every conversation. But you might miss out on interesting conversations because you either mute everything or nothing. Developers said that using threads was the obvious solution.<\/p>\n

The startup released the closed beta of the product last summer and opened it up to a wider audience in March.<\/p>\n