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Chatmunk — Experience topics & events in real-time channels for Twitter
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@blendahtom Hey Tom! It's been a while! I hope everything is fine with you. I believe channels will open things up for non-power users who don't fully grasp the power of lists nor have the time/desire to curate them.
This is very cool @erictwillis and congrats, and although it's hard, why not use Twitter to build your own graph rather than fix Twitter?
I have been beta testing this product for a while, love it even though I think it's so freaking hard to build out online communities - hope the evolution of the product will make conversations on twitter more meaningful and organized ^_^
Thanks for a chance to participate in beta @erictwillis
Look forward to trying it out , also focus on topics vs communities maybe interesting . Bindle was similar without sub channels ? https://www.producthunt.com/tech...
@divraj Hey. I know Chris from Bindle. Our vision is much different. Chris is a great guy. I think they're doing really well in the gaming sector (at least he mentioned that last time I talked to him).
I love the idea of twitter communities and great job for Eric implementing it! I would think it would be an easy sell to Twitter if you pushed it! I love this app! I love this idea! Go @erictwillis!
Hey Product Hunt!
We're going to give Product Hunt community members early access to Chatmunk.
I've written a medium post that defines the problems we're addressing and explains why we've built the product. It's here: https://medium.com/@erictwillis/...
Whatever question you may have, I've likely rambled long enough there to have covered it.
Our team has always loved communities and community-based products. We want to bring the "community feel" to twitter by creating topic-based communities you can easily jump in and out of without sorting through the unfiltered feed. If you want to discuss the Warrior’s game, jump into the Golden State Warriors’ channel and discuss the team with other fans. There is no need to curate a list on Twitter or follow hashtags. You don’t have to scan your feed continuously to find something that engages you. The feed in the Warriors’ channel will be a real-time discussion about amazing plays, controversial calls, the latest 3 from one of the Splash Brothers, or latest Riley Curry vine. If you want to discuss products, you could join the Product Hunt channel. Or subscribe to game 1 of the NBA Finals to discuss it live with other fans. You’ll easily find the content you want and others who are passionate about the topic.
Here are highlights of some of Chatmunk's features
-Quickly create topic-based communities
-Create subchannels for topics that are important for your community
-Create events to that your members can subscribe to and be notified of when they go live
-Go Private or approval-only for more intimate communities
We're currently testing Chatmunk with some early users and would love to invite you in. We'll all jump into the Product Hunt channel :)
@erictwillis nice job dude.
Been on Chatmunk since the early days and I like the premise.
As has been said previously it's hard to scale communities when a lot of people are involved...Keen to see how it goes. We both know the challenges of 'managing' an active community
Something that would be cool is having a Nuzzel-esque way to find out what is being talked about from who you follow, friends of friends, etc etc. So where Nuzzel has the news of certain topic areas like "Tech" - you can have those conversations grouped too.
Do you think this is something to dig away at Moments on Twitter? - I see how it could step on its toes and is also completely separate.
Seeing the recent launch of collaborative platforms like Anchor, have you seen anything that could be helpful with Chatmunk?
Excited to see where this goes & will continue to play around with it!
@bentossell Yes, Ben. We know the struggles and I imagine this will be incredibly challenging!
I don't think this targets Moments as it's currently constructed. Moments is more of a news product that delivers bite-sized updates as events are happening. There could be some overlapped depending on the type of content that is shared, though.
Anchor has the best onboarding process I've seen in a while. So that would make anyone rethink their onboarding process to see if there is a way it could be improved. Beyond the onboarding, you can tell that a lot of thought was put into every interaction. It's just an amazingly well-designed product. I wouldn't be shocked if it's the breakout app of 2016.
@erictwillis I think looking at how Anchor handles feeds of conversations within 'topics' will be interesting for Chatmunk.
Could be interesting to link them!
@bentossell Yes! I was thinking of some interesting ways to incorporate video/audio into the experience (jotting down some ideas for the future) and as soon as I saw Anchor thought it would be cool to have an API to do a deep integration.
@erictwillis Eric this is awesome! I've been thinking about a similar idea to this (see my digest idea here - http://bit.ly/1KnQFXQ) in terms of how to answer the question, "How can we help people find more of the conversations on Twitter they would be interested in?" in the same way @Abrams has done for news. So I'm very curious to see how Chatmunk can help bridge that gap with the channels/topics/chatmunk rooms sorted out. One feature that might be interesting is being alerted when a specific user or influencer you follow tweets about a channel you follow, for instance I might want to know when the local journalist tweets about the Warriors, but not when they tweet about the 49ers or Giants. Anyway excited to jump on and engage, congrats on the launch!
@charlesjo Hey Charles. I need to drop in SSG. I haven't been there for a while, but I always hear great things about the way you're running it.
Just signed up, 179th in the queue! By the way, neat signup system @erictwillis - I'm guessing you used Maitre? (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...)
@jimiwen Less than 100 channels, but as we let more people in I'm sure that number will grow quickly as channels are user-generated.
I could imagine brands using this in a similar way that they use facebook pages. Did you guys consult with any brands / services when creating it? Generally think this could be really interesting though - I like the slack channels mention above. It also seems like a more active version of a list, something that I think is powerful but under used.
@shib88 Hello Shib. I did talk to brands. I also talked to athletes who thought it would be cool to set up channels for their team and put the game schedules as events in their channels to pull their fans in together. We have some awesome ideas on how we could make the experience really cool.
This is an awesome idea! I've always found it difficult to find really focused communities, especially on Twitter. Or annoyingly, you can always tell when it's a bot programmed to add people to lists.
Any idea when Android will be available? And is Twitter going to be the only channel (what with all the news going on about fewer MAUs?)
@carylyne Hey Carylyne. We don't have a timeline on Android yet (I know Android user are to tired of hearing that). I think it's important for us to nail the experience on one platform first. No, Twitter will likely just be one channel. Thanks for the question!
Ok I am way behind on the list but I think this is a neat idea.. Specially keeping in mind so many Twitter chats that happen already..
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