p/superfly
Live video with friends
Bram Kanstein (@bramk)
Superfly — Watch live interactive videos from, and with, your friends
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Kyle Tibbitts
I've been using Superfly for several months and really like the privacy aspect of the product as I'm not big on the idea of broadcasting to a larger audience of people I mostly don't know. The app is very well designed and the animations make the experience more delightful and engaging for viewers, which I think is a big differentiator. Viewers actually become part of the final video and since you can rewatch, it's a great way to capture and document moments in your life that you can enjoy later. What are some of new features the team is most excited to release?
Matt Johnson
@kyletibbitts Where would the surprise be if we told you what was coming next! Thanks for the kind words. There is a place for public and place for private content. Both can coexist, but for most people (and especially the younger you are) having the safety of private and knowing which specific friends are going to watch frees you to create videos without the burden of curation.
jake duncan ☕️
onboarding 👌🏽
Bram Kanstein (@bramk)
I’ve been playing around with Superfly for the past few weeks and think @mattjishere and his crew have created something very cool. Mobile live streaming has become popular through Periscope and FB Live, but these apps are focussed on sharing moments in a public way with your “audience” / following. There’s no fun way to share live video experiences with just your friends, but I think Superfly has a chance to become the go-to app to do just that. Great design and UI/UX, but most of all a lot of fun!” Matt can tell you more :)
Romy Macasieb
Full disclosure. I actually worked with Matt Johnson and team at ThisLife. Here are some things you can expect from the app, and more importantly, from the awesome team behind it. App: Being as non-biased as possible, but seriously, the experience this app delivers is first class. The moment you launch the app, you're put into a well designed Onboarding experience. As we all know, Onboarding is extremely telling of what kind of service you're about to jump into. Post-Onboarding proves this well. When you're broadcasting video, the controls kind of take a backseat keeping the focus on you. It's fun and light. When you're viewing a live video, things get magical. Because you're using this with friends, family...people you actually know, the ability to send, as Matt puts it, "exploding stars, animated rainbows, video selfies" actually is so key. Sure you're thinking, why do I care about these things? Trust me, use the app and you'll understand why. It's fun! As the broadcaster, you get to see first hand EXACTLY when someone saw something you did that interested people, and how they reacted to it. The expressions are just as live as the video. On a social network, someone "Likes" something, and you have to guess what part of the post was like-worthy. With Superfly, expressions were designed in such a way that time, and area of video, show exactly what was Star/Rainbow/etc worthy. The video selfie adds a layer of emotion in that you can *feel* the reaction from your group. Live broadcast something fun, and laugh together. Broadcast something sad, and be there for one another. You've probably read the app description and quickly associated it to some other app out there. Trust me, it's an app unlike anything you've seen before. Team: This team is listening and they move FAST. This app isn't going away. Use it, love it, and send them feedback. They're constantly release updates and tuning things. Again, I've been with this team before and I can tell you you're walking into a product that you and your closest people will be having fun with for times to come. It only gets better from here. *rainbows*
Ben Kennedy
@romy ^ this guy! thanks Romy. We're pretty excited also and great to hear that you felt the Superfly magic that happens during a live video. *unicorns*
Ben Tossell
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Kay Vink
@mattjishere FYI your branch links are not working
Avner Ronen
Love Superfly. It is beautiful and fast. The team did an amazing job on it.
Paper Spaces
integrated in whatsapp it would be nice, now it's just another app no one has...
Matt Johnson
@paperspaces We would love that. Right now you can share a link to join your group via WhatsApp. If we could get deeper integration we certainly would! It is interesting that groups links are shared 45% via imessage 26% on Messenger and 25% of WhatsApp. All the WhatsApp sharing is international, especially Brazil!
Matt Johnson
Hey there Product Hunt :) I’m very happy to introduce you to Superfly! We let you share a live video with your own private group of friends, while making them part of what’s happening. We know you what you are thinking, the one thing the world needs is another live video app! Well we didn’t feel that live video had to be synonymous with public video. We felt that watching strangers was intriguing as it played to the voyeur in all of us. But we lost interest pretty fast. Even more so, we felt the idea of sharing our own video with strangers was both terrifying and creepy. We built Superfly for the rest of us. That want to share and have the excitement of a live connecting with friends, yet remain completely private. We also dialed up the fun factor. Your friends are now part of your video. They can can tap to send exploding stars, animated rainbows, video selfies and more. When finished, the video is still available in your group. You can talk about it, and in case friends missed it live, they are able to watch a live replay, including all the interactions from friends, and add their own to the video. You can read more about Superfly here: https://medium.com/@superflyapp/.... I’d love to hear your thoughts and/or recommendations, I’m around all day! :) (Also feel free to email me any time: matt@superflyapp.com) Thanks!
Gina Bianchini
@mattjishere @superflyapp Matt - this is a great idea. I can't wait to give it a try!
Matt Johnson
@ginab @superflyapp @mightybell Thanks Gina. We strive to make it look as good as Mightybell!
saar gur
@mattjishere @superflyapp The timing feels right for an app like this to gain mass adoption. Congrats on the launch and psyched to check it out!
Jasonhwang
@mattjishere @superflyapp Your app's animation is really awesome! I'm kinda a novice in the iOS development and just wondering if you guys were using any animation tools like Quartz or Paintcode to make such animations.
Alex Bauer
Definitely one of the more creative onboarding experiences I've seen! It's worth downloading just for that alone.
Brian Wilson
Superfly is super duper. The community video aspect is a très cool way to connect.
Matt Johnson
@brian_wilson Now we need some chat commands powered by Prompt https://www.producthunt.com/tech...
Matt Johnson
@brian_wilson oui oui, Monsieur Brian tu est super duper!
Clint Fenton
This is so fun! How did Superfly not already exist?
Peter Kallai
Superfly is fun app with is a great UI/UX and very cool design! I am sure this app will do great with the target audience. Good luck, guys!
Owen Williams
Doooope