<p>Yes, the messaging app space is super-hot and super-crowded. It's probably the most competitive part of the consumer app space, with giants like China's Tencent and Facebook in the ring along with established venture-backed companies like WhatsApp.</p><p>Yet it's still luring entrepreneurs and there are new breakout apps every year like NHN's Line or Snapchat. Now a veteran team from the social gaming world is taking a stab with a new app called MessageMe.</p><p>It's light, It's fast and it isn't just limited to texting or photos. If you're meme-oriented in your messaging, the app can pull in images from Google search, music from iTunes, videos from YouTube or doodles that you draw. Whatever suits your mood, really.</p><p>"We weren't originally thinking about building a messaging app," said CEO Arjun Sethi, who started MessageMe after growing a social gaming company called LOLapps to a peak headcount of 150 and 50 million monthly active users on Facebook. He founded the company while an entrepreneur-in-residence at former Facebook vice president Chamath Palihapitiya's Social + Capital fund. While the company has some funding, they're not disclosing investors yet.</p><p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/08/messageme/">Keep reading...</a></p>