Oom

Maker

📌

Hey Makers and Hunters! 👋 I’m really excited to share Oom with you all, a chat app that’s designed to skip the small talk and help you get to know people like never before ✨ Over the past five years, myself and my co-founder, Ed, found that we were posting increasingly less to social media and spending more and more time in group chats and DMs. But while most chat apps are useful tools for staying in touch and sharing links, they’re all largely the same! We were having the same conversations with the same people in the same kind of environment across five or six different platforms. We started building Oom because we felt that it was high time for something new. Our mission is to create the most fun and engaging place to chat with friends, new and old. Here’s how we’re doing it: ⚡ Chats are loaded with thousands of prompts that break the ice and drive the conversation forward. 🎚️ By answering prompts, you level up your chat and unlock new topics and features. 🌱 Every chat contains a creature called a Fini that represents the relationship between the two users and evolves as you stay connected. 🎲 Our new ‘Roll the dice’ feature lets you meet new people in an anonymous format. You’ll have 3 hours to chat to a mystery user before deciding whether to reveal your identity or end things there. You can download Oom today on both iOS and Android at https://oomtogether.com. It’s totally free for anyone to use. We're just getting started and would love to hear your feedback, comments, and feature ideas! 😊 Happy Ooming, Sam

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1yr ago

Damjanski

MoMAR

@samspike love it - downloading it rn. Can I import my Fini too?

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1yr ago

Sam Spike

Oom

Maker

@damjanski Thanks Damjanski! Not currently but we're exploring allowing for that in the future!

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1yr ago

Damjanski

MoMAR

@samspike nice that would be incredible :)

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1yr ago

Nikola Makarevych

Adoric

WOW! That's an amazing idea. I like the design and dark mode.

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1yr ago

Joseph Natoli

LOOFT- A/C Redefined

Hey Sam, I love that the Oom team is attempting to gamify chatting / friendships by including some sort of character that grows with your chat and relationship. I appreciate making group chats / personal chats more unique as the core idea and will check it out. I can do without the random connections as that part seems a bit more Chatroulette to me. What has been the biggest technical challenge in developing this?

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1yr ago

Sam Spike

Oom

Maker

@joseph_natoli Hi Joseph! Thanks for the comment and kind words! Point totally taken about the random chats. We have plans to allow users to filter those as the app grows, so it wouldn't be nearly as random. As for the biggest technical challenge, it has probably been the trade off between having interactive 3D elements and special visual effects with more table stakes stuff like silky smooth text input (obviously very important in a chat app!). We opted to build the app in the Unity game engine to facilitate the former, and this has also allowed us to develop for iOS and Android simultaneously, but it has inevitably presented different challenges compared with a more native solution.

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1yr ago

Joseph Natoli

LOOFT- A/C Redefined

@samspike Great response, and thanks for the info. You know, seeing the 3D character I was curious what the stack was, and I did not have Unity in mind (not sure why, but as a former game dev... that makes total sense). Really would like to keep in contact over on linkedin.

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1yr ago

Oom

The chat app that skips the small talk