How To
How to Send Apartment Building Notices Without Another Group Chat
Send residents private, admin-only water, lift, access, and maintenance updates without exposing phone numbers or burying notices in chat.
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PingRoom News · Page 3 of 16
The Blog.
Product updates, field notes, and the thinking behind the Ping that cuts through.
Product
PingRoom 1.5 Is Live on the App Store and Google Play
PingRoom 1.5 is live on the App Store and Google Play. Explore richer context, one-tap confirmation, live updates, automations, and platform-specific features.
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Product
Editor’s Choice Comes to Discover
Discover can now open with a deliberately selected shelf of active community rooms, without mixing them into PingRoom’s official rooms or showing the same room twice.
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Engineering
How PingRoom Got 4× Faster in One Day
A 2.2-second Ping was not waiting on one slow query. It was paying for 65 small trips between Amsterdam and Frankfurt—and the biggest win came from moving the app closer.
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Launch
One Beta Door, Two Platforms
The new PingRoom beta page now offers Apple’s TestFlight invite and the current Android APK side by side, with one place to experience the product before installing it.
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Agents
When AI Sends the Ping, Say So
Managed-agent Pings now carry a server-authored AI label, while provider permission and safety reports keep the model, data path, and exact output visible.
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Product
Share a Point, Not a Trail
A custom Ping or Question can now carry one deliberately chosen place, with a quiet feed preview, a useful map sheet, and no background location trail.
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Product
Urgent Is Not Confirmation
Urgent now controls time-sensitive delivery; confirmation asks for a recorded human response. Either can stand alone, and a Ping can carry both when the moment needs both.
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Product
Try a Ping Before You Build a Room
A new first-use demo lets a roomless user experience the real Ping banner, sound, and haptic before configuring a room, inviting anyone, or granting push permission.
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