I’m a person without that background and I’ll talk about it. What’s the uncanny similarity you mentioned?

Yep. I wish Beeper had just stuck with the PC and iOS apps.

Beeper is more than that. Beeper MINI is about that. But I’ve been using Beeper on my PC for the past year because I am so tired of picking up my phone a million times a day just to send someone a message. I’d say probably 90% of the people I know use iPhone/iMessage so having the ability to message them on desktop was a lifesaver for me. Really bummed it’s not working anymore.

There were screenshots at the article in the link.