Oom

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

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?

Hey Sam! How do you see Oom evolving in the future, both in terms of functionality and user base? Have you thought about B2B direction? For example, team members can use it to build better relationships.