Something I really want someone to build (if you're interested let me know) is a true personal relationship manager with support for all conversations on all platforms.
The ability to cross link profiles and truly manage contact lists across all those platforms as a single object. So Emma on Discord is the same contact in the app as Emma on Messenger, and on SMS, etc.
All this can easily be stored in Google contacts as metadata and would allow the user to backup and index their chat conversations, and quickly search through previous messages across all platforms. And backup all photos and files sent through those platforms as a single stream.
Not quite. Those are write only and aren't contact centric. Also nowadays they look like slack clones, I can't even find the cross chat platform functionality anymore
I'm not sure what do you mean, since AFAIK they don't have any "native" chat, everything is cross-chat ?
Write only ?
Contact-centric would be a nice goal, but the best you can do is probably Android-style "Contacts" ?
Email, sms, WhatsApp, discord, messenger, some obscure website chat platform whathaveyou...
The ability to cross link profiles and truly manage contact lists across all those platforms as a single object. So Emma on Discord is the same contact in the app as Emma on Messenger, and on SMS, etc.
All this can easily be stored in Google contacts as metadata and would allow the user to backup and index their chat conversations, and quickly search through previous messages across all platforms. And backup all photos and files sent through those platforms as a single stream.