Tiny Talk
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Randomly-coordinated 7-minute 1:1 video chats with friends
doug
Tiny Talk — Clubhouse and ChatRoulette had a baby
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Tap a button for short, random one-on-one video chats with your friends, family, classmates or co-workers. Or setup channel events to bring everyone together for a series of back to back chats. Tiny Talks only last seven minutes. Bring back social serendipity!
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doug
TL;DR: Tap a button to randomly connect with your friends, family, classmates or co-workers for short, one-on-one video chats. Or, setup channel events to bring everyone from your community together for a series of back-to-back chats. Tiny Talk’s only last seven minutes -- fun, low-commitment ways to bring back social serendipity. It’s like ChatRoulette meets Clubhouse, but with only the people and communities that matter to you. Hey there, Product Hunt! Last September we shared the first prototype of Tiny Talk (https://tinytalk.io) -- an effort to help people stay meaningfully connected during the long days of quarantine by making it easy to have short, serendipitous conversations with others in their communities. Tiny Talk (iOS, Android) lets you tap a button and randomly connect for a short, one-on-one video chat with your personal contacts. You can also setup channels to bring together your entire community (classmates, co-workers, alumni groups, etc), or organize events during which participants are matched randomly for a series of short, back-to-back chats. Tiny Talk is basically an easy button for staying meaningfully connected and building stronger, healthier and more inclusive communities. We’ve spent the past few months iterating closely with dozens of our first few thousand users (thank you!!) -- gathering feedback on the things people love, things they hate, and what they wished they could do in Tiny Talk but weren’t able to. We’ve made a ton of changes -- while also keeping some of the key things the same -- and today we’re excited to announce Tiny Talk 2.0! Here’s what’s new: * Redesigned app, from the ground up: simpler and more intuitive user experience, clearer information architecture, hundreds papercut fixes and new features based on user requests and feedback. * Tiny Talk Channels: users can connect with other channel members -- for everything from businesses to volunteer groups to school clubs or alumni groups -- any members of the same channel can Tiny Talk with other channel members, either via ad hoc chats or through Channel events. * Tiny Talk Events: setup Tiny Talk events -- either with your personal contacts or for your channels -- to bring everyone together for a series of back-to-back video chats. Dozens or organizations all over the world use Tiny Talk for everything from team happy hours to helping new hires and existing employees meet and stay engaged. Thanks for the awesome support, and we’re looking forward to your ideas, feedback, questions and feature requests. To try out Tiny Talk with friends, simply create a channel, schedule an event and invite them to drop in. To use Tiny Talk with your team or organization, check out this super simple teams onboarding guide. Thanks! Doug PS: tap this link on mobile to join the Product Hunters Tiny Talk channel when you sign-up: https://tinytalk.page.link/Ltew -- and be sure to drop in for the Channel Launch on Wednesday, April 21 at 3pm PT / 6pm ET to meet other community members, chat about recent products or tech you’ve recently discovered, are working on or are excited about! PPS: our team is growing -- learn more about our mission here (https://tinytalk.io/about) and if you're passionate this work and interested in getting involved, get in touch!
doug
PS - @rrhoover last fall you asked how we planned to deal with the 🍆 problem -- so far, hasn't been a problem, given how we've architected the UX (specifically, users first and foremost interact within their community, so there are positive self-reinforcing dynamics) 😊
John Tilak
Tiny Talk is a fantastic initiative that is having a profound impact by facilitating meaningful connections. It is an exceptionally high-quality product that works seamlessly and is just fun to use. It's a great way to stay connected and have quick calls with family, friends and colleagues. We have been using Tiny Talk to build our communities, and our members simply love the unique experience. Congrats, Doug, on this major achievement.
doug
@johntilak Thanks so much, John! It's been a privilege to support the great work you and your team are doing.
Alexander Fournier
Hey Tiny Talk Team, on which informations do you decide who matter to me and to connect with?
doug
Hey @fresh_food - thanks for the question! We actually define the primary logic and conditions for matching on our FAQ (https://tinytalk.io/faq), but the main idea is (1) you sort your contacts to control who you want to be eligible to match with, then (2) when you initiate a Tiny Talk, we randomly and automatically connect you with some subset of your total contacts.
Veranika Vinichenka
It's really funny!
doug
@nika_vinichenko Glad to hear it -- thanks for checking it out!
Vas
?makers I love how you guys keep working on this! That is the spirit!
doug
Thanks, @vasgo!
Begüm Bayram
I can see this getting viral
doug
@begum_bayram Thanks!!
Umut Can Duran
I liked this baby
Chloe Bourgeois
seems fun!!!!!
doug
@chloe_bourgeois let us know what you think after you try it - always hungry for feedback
Adam Smaka
Idea is very cool but do I really need to provide my phone number? It was something that made me delete the app :(
doug
@damsmaka -- thanks for the feedback! Phone number is critical for enabling users to match with their personal contacts and delivering a high quality user experience. Rest assured, we handle user data with the highest level of care -- the bottom-line of which is in our FAQ: "The short answer is that we don't sell or use your data in any way other than to provide you with a great product and user experience." https://tinytalk.io/faq