> To picture a Chat, imagine if your group texts and your Instagram Stories met at the park, talked for hours, became best friends and fell in love. 9 months later, they gave birth to a new way of keeping in touch – one that lets you hear your friends’ voices, meet their friends, and spend less time typing. If “social messaging” were a thing, that’s what it would be.
It seems they've pivoted to something few people on HN are likely to use. Does anyone here use instagram stories? So maybe this appeals to their target demographic?
This is the most common social media for people under 40 in the US, very self evident if you have a social group of all ages and have used all major apps.
I can read and catch up on many group text messages very quickly but having to go through dozens of voice messages sounds much more time consuming, even if you can choose faster speeds.
Plus, unless you're a superb on the spot thinker or on a rip that day, it can be hard to express longer thoughts in one shot and having to rerecord is also not appealing. With text, you can edit it easily.
Just noting that only girls are sending messages in this app, judging by the frontpage.
I assume this is done quite deliberately and it's easy to imagine how marketing ends up here. Greg and a few more guys are still there on the receiving end, no need to complain about being unrepresented.
(using "girls"/"guys" because that's definitely what they're going for)
Finally! It’s been days if not weeks since the last social app was released. People suffer every day from having too unified friend graphs, and this brings some well needed fragmentation in the app silos we all love. I can’t wait to build another incomplete social graph of a slightly different demographic.
It’s also incredibly refreshing to see marketing for “personal chats with friends” combined with not a single mention of outdated fads like “privacy” and “encryption”. This leaves the door open for data collection of intimate relationships – an underrepresented data source in todays ad targeting frameworks.
If anyone from Clubhouse is reading this, or any entrepreneurs in this space, it's soooo hard managing whether or not I can get my friends into a new platform if some or all have conceptions that they would need an invite in order to use the app.
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> To picture a Chat, imagine if your group texts and your Instagram Stories met at the park, talked for hours, became best friends and fell in love. 9 months later, they gave birth to a new way of keeping in touch – one that lets you hear your friends’ voices, meet their friends, and spend less time typing. If “social messaging” were a thing, that’s what it would be.
Wow.
This is the most common social media for people under 40 in the US, very self evident if you have a social group of all ages and have used all major apps.
Plus, unless you're a superb on the spot thinker or on a rip that day, it can be hard to express longer thoughts in one shot and having to rerecord is also not appealing. With text, you can edit it easily.
I assume this is done quite deliberately and it's easy to imagine how marketing ends up here. Greg and a few more guys are still there on the receiving end, no need to complain about being unrepresented.
(using "girls"/"guys" because that's definitely what they're going for)
It’s also incredibly refreshing to see marketing for “personal chats with friends” combined with not a single mention of outdated fads like “privacy” and “encryption”. This leaves the door open for data collection of intimate relationships – an underrepresented data source in todays ad targeting frameworks.
You have a device which can play sound and display text, images and videos. There's only so many ways you can shuffle those things around.
Partly kidding but partly serious hehe.
Wow, they're already prepping their "our incredible journey" blog post next.
"We did it because we love this product"
That's why you're pivoting into a new one?