Modern Express News (Reporter Cai Mengying) May 15 is the International Day of Families. How is the daily life of the family recorded? There are too many chat records to be found, photo albums need to be cleaned up from time to time, and social platforms are easy to expose privacy. Wang Bo, a developer from Beijing, has developed a life record app for his family called Warm Current, together with like-minded friends, focusing on chatting and sharing in intimate relationships such as family, couples, and close friends.
For most people, WeChat is like an infrastructure like water and electricity, where life and work are all on it, and the biggest preferential treatment for a person is to put the dialog box at the top. In Wang Bo's family life, daily sharing is a rigid need. "My daughter-in-law and I live in Beijing with two children, my sister has just started primary school this year, and my younger brother is younger. My parents both live in Changchun, and their biggest need is to take care of the baby. Sometimes, they say in the group to see the baby, and the news will soon be disrupted by various groups. Based on this, he thought that he could develop a special app to facilitate chatting and sending photos with the closest people without interruption or ineffective socialization.
In April 2023, an app called Warm Current was launched on the app store. In addition to being a very simple way to take photos and share the moment with your family, you can also add widgets to your desktop, whenever your family members send photos or videos, they will immediately appear on the desktop, and you can also see the latest news of your family members when you work.
"We named the app Warm Current, which is to record the daily moments in intimate relationships such as family, couples, and close friends, and these warm memories can converge into a warm current that reaches the depths of the soul." Friends Shi Xin and Gong Xiaopeng, who developed the warm current app with Wang Bo, trust each other and are colleagues who have known each other for more than 10 years.
Since he installed the warm current app on his parents' mobile phones, the family has become significantly closer. Wang Bo told reporters that his mother, who is far away in Changchun, likes to share photos of hanging out with friends, as well as videos taken during classes at the University for the Elderly. My wife likes to share her work routine, fitness exercises, and what she sees and hears when she goes out with her baby.
For two-child families, there are also explosive details with babies. "I was particularly impressed by the fact that last summer, my daughter-in-law took my sister to the library to borrow books, who would have thought that my sister chose a picture book called "10 Ways to Make Dad Angry". My daughter-in-law took a picture of it, and when she turned her head, she had a warm current. When I saw it for the first time, I was really angry and laughing. ”
Some users shared with him that his family likes to post videos on the warm current to record the quarrels and reconciliation of his brother and sister. Some users also said in the feedback group that the elderly like to use warm currents to record their children's performance in swimming lessons.
Although the App has been on the shelves for a while, it is still a very niche software because it has not been widely promoted. For Wang Bo and his partners, this was enough. "It's an app developed for myself and my family, whether it's looking back on the previous photos with my daughter-in-law, or the growth photos of children, it's very touching and warm."
Wang Bo said that in the next version update of the warm current app, functions such as recalling the past, full data export and backup, and voice message will be added, hoping to be completed little by little. "For me, Warm Current is like a living photo album. In daily life, the family is constantly updated, and no matter when you take it out to see, it is full of warm memories. ”