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by supritgandhi 628 days ago
Please help me understand:

Are you asking if you have to share your contact details like phone number or email? - No you need to share any of those. You don't even need phone number or email address for creating account on RelayBeam. You just need to share relevant port address for communicating with someone.

Or are you asking about migrating all your existing conversations in other tools?

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When using a communication tool, I assume it is to communicate with someone other than myself. It seems the other person must be using RelayBeam also. The challenge is that even if I really like RelayBeam, it adds little value if I don’t have people to communicate with. People are somewhat burned out on having a thousand different communication apps, and getting them to add one more seems like a significant effort.
If I give my contacts this address, every one will 1) think it's an email address, 2) when learning it is not, ask for my email address so they don't have to sign up to something else.