Shane Wey

This is Shane, one of the makers. Great to see the insights people are deriving! Happy to answer any questions. We worked on this project because as former mobile developers, we faced the problem of not knowing what SDKs were out there that could make our app better. MightySignal's paid product is for companies looking for sdk usage across the millions of apps we've scanned, but this was a fun...

Hey everyone! I'm one of the founders. Thanks for the warm reception! Was wondering about the influx of signups.. Happy to answer questions here, or just fill out the form on our site and that'll email us directly. -Shane

@rrhoover that's interesting. I wonder if that would be more encouraging or discouraging. People may be frightened to even open the recording screen! Perhaps a good middle ground of this is that once you're done recording, it goes straight to the share screen for you to give it a caption. That way, users can go back and re-record if they want, but it's a bigger hurdle to do so. When I think of...

@rrhoover These are a few things we've realized too. So first of all, in regards to text being easier to consume, audio actually has areas where it has an advantage. For example, you can listen to it passively, and actually that's a feature users have requested - to be able to listen to it out of app during times like commuting. As for the friction that exists for recording, we're exploring a)...

@rrhoover Yup - I think micro-podcasts are a perfect description. I think the same way Twitter unlocked micro-blogging, Melt fits for micro-podcasting. Also, voice seems to click for users who want to express themselves in a way text just can't capture. And yes, completely agree with makeshift prototypes.

@rrhoover Initially, we were just recording personal voice memos on SoundCloud. We started sharing some of them to Facebook and to our surprise, got pretty strong reception. We spent two weeks building a very minimal iPhone app to use with our friends and have been iterating and growing since.

Shane here, co-founder of Melt. AMA :)