Quickie

Hi there! Would love for you guys to give this a try. Quickie makes 1-on-1 video calls that automatically end after a few seconds. It's been really nice connecting on a daily basis with loved ones with these very short 1-on-1 interactions that don't feel as intense and time intensive as facetime or skype. 5-second quickies to just say good morning, 10-second quickies to show something you're doing. 30-second quickie to make a plan. Receiving a quickie always feels super exciting and personal. Of course, there are many alternatives to communicating with friends, but somehow this feels refreshing. What do you think? :)

Thanks Ryan, love your products too :) A few learnings... In social, products need to be as unique as possible! Context was loved, but too similar to king Snapchat.. With Facefeed, we moved it away from the friend graph onto the random chat/community space, which gets much more traffic! But we learned that it's hard to keep the best people around for the long run.. Facefeed had great traction, was loved, but had to be highly moderated. And at some point bad actors gave a bad tone to the product and growth stalled. Kudos to you @rrhoover to have been able to curate such a great community :) Quickie feels quite unique. video chatting is old news but this implementation feels refreshing. It feels new to be able to use video chat on a daily basis VS the occasional weekend conversation. Time constraint is sometimes awkward, but always fun. After a few weeks of building and beta testing, let's see what people think!

I love playing with your apps, @bencera_. There are some similarities to your previous projects, Context and Facefeed. What did you learn from those apps that you applied to Quickie? P.S. Love the name. 😃