Hearo

Full screen watch parties with smart TV tech and voice chat.

3 followers

Full screen watch parties with smart TV tech and voice chat.

3 followers

Laugh, talk, and cheer with friends while watching Netflix, YouTube, ESPN, and 20+ other channels and video services, like you're on a big couch together🍿. Hearo is Multiplayer TV: simply amazing full screen, HD-quality watch parties for phone and PC. 📺🥳

Launch tags:

Video Streaming•TV•Streaming Services

Launch Team

Edward Lerner

Hearo

Maker

Thank you 🙏 @pollock for hunting Hearo 🎯. Three years ago we had a simple idea. Watching should be as social as playing. Two billion people love talking and playing games together. Now everyone with a phone or PC can talk and watch games, sports, TV shows, movies or YouTube together too, like watching together on a cozy couch. 🛋 The idea was simple, but the engineering was hard. We had to build one of the first 100% software based smart TVs. Then we had to customize it to be the first #MultiplayerTV, with crystal clear voice chat and echo cancellation, so you can watch and talk without feedback. Our group audio might remind you of ClubHouse, but instead of just talking about music, shows, games or sports, you can also see and hear what you’re talking about. Hearo = ClubHouse + !Apple-TV. And it’s free! 💸 Thankfully we’ve gotten great support from our early investors, particularly the ~2,000 investors on https://republic.co/hearo-live. Our equity crowdfunding campaign ends soon, on Jan. 15 2021. You can invest from $100 to $100,000. 💰 We hope you like Hearo and we want to hear from you. Share your comments and feedback here in Product Hunt, email me at Super@Hearo.Live, join our Discord server https://discord.gg/FAjjSF2 or connect with me on Hearo. I'm Ned#4868 🦸‍♂️ Thanks @chiyeuk @dwight_k @reihearo @vlhaseman and the whole Hearo team 😅

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4yr ago

Carman Lam

Hearo

Maker

Hi hunters! I'm the Growth Marketing Manager for Hearo 👋 I work closely with @nedlern and @vlhaseman to onboard new users and make sure everyone sees all the hard work that my team and our partners are putting in with Hearo. You'll often find me hanging out in our Discord server and greeting new members. Hope to bump into some of you! 👊

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4yr ago

Victor Haseman

Hearo

Maker

Hello Hunters. I'm Victor and I lead marketing for @hearo working with @chiyeuk, @nedlern and the rest of the team. Online video is a professional passion of mine. And I've worked on some truly memorable projects. But 9 out of 10 times I've concentrated on content creation, playback quality, discovery, sharing, and measurement. At Hearo we're focused on an entirely new challenge: transforming video and TV consumption from a passive, solo-watching experience to a truly social one that connects you to friends across the country and the world with the same realtime immediacy of playing Call of Duty War Zone. That's why we call Hearo #MultiplayerTV. We think you'll like the way we've combined the utility of a smart TV with flawless voice chat so you can watch, talk, and in listen all in sync. Kick the tires on your own with friends or reach out to me for a quick demo. Meanwhile, tell us your questions? What would you like to know about the product?

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4yr ago

Will Gendron

How does this product differentiate from scener.com?

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4yr ago

Dwight Kwok

Hearo

Maker

Hey @william_gendron, if I'm not mistaken, Scener is primarily a Chrome extension and recently debuted their beta mobile app (iOS only). So, they are a limited cross platform product with geo restrictions. Hearo launched globally (except for China), fully cross play and cross platform on mobile (android and iOS), desktop, and it also offer a plugin for businesses. Another thing I should point out is that most watch party apps are text-chat and co-watch or watch (mini hollywood square for participants) and co-watch... people mostly end up watching other participants' faces than the show/movie itself and could be distracting. Picture, Zoom conference for movies. So in short, while some of the use cases overlap, our application can be very different. Hearo is a platform agnostic hub, Scener is a limited standalone platform. We are all learning to become better, but I hope you like Hearo better! PS. If you want to support us and become a HE(A)RO, back us here: https://republic.co/hearo-live

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4yr ago

Edward Lerner

@william_gendron To echo what @dwight_k said. We're full screen, TV, live streams and VoDs, mobile first (though now with Mac/PC/web too) and state of the art echo cancelation. Scener has competing videos/screens - so part screen video, no TV or livestream support, is purely a browser extension (either doesn't work at all or drains your mobile batteries), problems with echo cancellation. That being said Scener is best of class for a Chrome Extension. We're built off a custom smart TV stack - a lot more engineering, a lot more power, a lot more interesting to partners who want a virtual theater or stadium.

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4yr ago

Victor Haseman

Hearo

Maker

Great points, Dwight. 🙏🏽 Here’s a few notable differentiators. We work on Windows and macOS PCs. All of our app experiences are native experiences. This let’s us capitalize on delivering a HD-quality, full screen experience and optimize voice chat to eliminate echo. Also keep in mind that we support live U.S. TV: ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN, NBCSN, TNT and more. They all are supported in Hearo. All you and your friends need to do is login with your cable sunscription to watch the NFL playoffs, NBA basketball, and college sports. Keep the questions coming. We’d love this forum to he a helpful FAQ for other Hunters who discover us.

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4yr ago

Edward Lerner

@vlhaseman 👍👩🏽‍🔬

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4yr ago