Bonfire
The new group video chat app from Facebook 🔥
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Bonfire - The new group video chat app from Facebook 🔥

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Bonfire is the long-rumored Houseparty competitor for Facebook. It's a group video chat app that lets you hang out with your best friends and meet new ones. Open the app to start video chatting instantly.

It's currently only available in the Danish App Store.

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A few months ago The Verge's on Facebook's Houseparty competitor. Today, in the Danish App Store. While Facebook's essentially added the , it makes sense to create a separate app to create its own notification system and social graph. I'm curious to hear Houseparty 's thoughts on this. EDIT: We wrote about Bonfire in today's Daily. 📰
First Twitter with Meerkat competitor Periscope, now Facebook with Houseparty competitor Bonfire. I don't think he is too thrilled ;)
Seriously, Ben can't catch a break. Things were different with Meerkat. I hope with Houseparty, he is able to compete with Facebook.
yeah, i feel bad for him but at the same time i feel really proud. shouldn't these companies (fb, twitter) hire him and his team instead? Look at those promising products theyve released recently, what more can they do with a bunch of cash in hand
if he can't make 52M work then consider it another failure. the reality is facebook will clone anything in the social space so everyone must be prepared for the inevitable
Yea it kind of a sad reality. I wonder if there is a play one could make to avoid this. Do you think Facebook considered acquihire before blatant copy?
Hunter
Unearthed on the Danish App Store. Hard to download if not in Denmark... but not impossible ;)
Finally we get something first.
didn't you get Lego first?
Norway here and we don't have access.
Wow. The screenshots look almost identical to houseparty. They aren't even being sly about this one.
I always have mixed feelings about such obvious copies of competitors (e.g. Instagram Stories). - On one side, I'm outraged that such Big Cos copy so openly smaller startups - On a more neutral standpoint, I acknowledge the fact that they have the right to do it - But then as a user, I might find this version even better than the original and be delighted by it
well said.
facebook owns instagram…
yes, and they copied Snapchat
Houseparty by Facebook
Facebook is completely out of new ideas.
I think you mean LinkedIn 😂 (or both!)
Facebook: Masters at going where the puck has been...
Hunter
Psst! 😉 How to download Facebook’s unreleased Bonfire video chat app today:
I think this has potentially big B2B implications. If they integrate video chat into their Workplace product, then we could see big impacts upon GoToMeeting, Blue Jeans, Skype, etc. All of those products have intermittent performance issues and aren't well integrated into other communication tools. Microsoft seems to aspire for Skype to be well integrated with Yammer & Sharepoint, but don't seem to have hit the mark yet.
Man, I feel SO bad for the Houseparty (formerly Meerkat) team. Facebook and Twitter sure love to jump right into whatever market they happen to innovate in. It's the free market, I suppose. :)
Facebook is becoming the American rocket internet 😵
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