2 minute, 1-on-1, video conversations with your friends
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Kat Manalac

Glimpse - 2 minute, 1-on-1, video conversations with your friends

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An app for 2 minute, one-on-one, video chats with your friends (and friends of friends). šŸ„³
Catch up with people that matter most to you, and meet people that matter to them. Anytime, anywhere.
Update June 28: Now available on web at app.joinglimpse.com

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Auriel
Could I use this for business? I would love to hear pitches or chat with potential partners for 2 minutes at a time. Would require 2 ā€œtypes of usersā€, rather than any random pairing. But a cool future feature?
Helena Merk
Maker
@elle2 Hi Elle! YES. Definitely a feature we want ourselves and is on our roadmap:)
Adolfo Portilla
Love the idea and the product!! I feel a lot of times is hard to catch up with people because we "don't have time" and this makes it easier to do that!
Mary Gooneratne
Maker
@fofo Thanks Adolfo! +1 on the sentiment that friendships and maintaining them should be easy and fun:)
Mathew Pregasen
Is there a way to keep in contact with new people I meet? I am always looking for a non-lame way for my friends to introduce me to their friends and this seems to solve the problem but what if I meet a mutual friend and donā€™t know who they are? Can I contact them after? Is that safe?
Brian Li
Maker
@mathew_pregasen Yes! We currently have rooms where you can invite your friends, and your friends can invite their friends! It's a really easy way to meet mutual friends in a 2-min low stakes conversation. And if you guys get along, you have the option to connect in the app!
Lauren Willis
Exciting! Canā€™t wait to see how the product grows over time!!!
Helena Merk
Maker
@lauren_willis1 Thank you -- excited to have you as an early user!!
Brett Stark
Hello Helena - how did you make this so quickly? with what tools/frameworks/infrastructure? Thx.
Helena Merk
Maker
@brett_stark ofc! React Native for mobile, with a Node express backend, Neo4j DB, redis caching, LB, queues. CodePush has been super helpful to deploy over the air updates. Hosted on AWS. ie nothing out of the box actually! We didn't really sleep if that counts as a framework šŸ˜…. Baller team too, major props for all the custom UI components @shavavo
Matt Rose
Love this app! Iā€™ve been wanting to meet people for a while but I go to a pretty small school and see the same people over and over again. Using glimpse made me realize that thereā€™s a whole world outside my schoolā€™s little bubble.
Mary Gooneratne
Maker
@matt_rose Thanks Matt :-) So fun connecting with you in the Duke room the other day!!
Katarina Merk
Omg, this is perfect. This is such a convenient way to be able to talk to people but also have an easy out. I would talk to and catch up with friends so much more if someone could promise me I wouldnt end up on hours-long FaceTimes. I love them but thereā€™s only so much time in the day. I really think this will make maintaining my personal relationships so much more manageable. THANK YOU.
Martin Muenster
I love thisā€¦.feels like a ~social slack~. Channels = rooms. Slacking = chatting. Love being able to bring my people into rooms and know who is here to talk to at any time and have a guaranteed commitment going in.
Mary Gooneratne
Maker
@martin_muenster Love the analogy Martin!!! The commitment guarantee is one of my favorite part and knowing I can get a real conversation out of that short commitment too. Would love to hear more feedback!
Hanna Merk
Intuitive and fun to use, with potentially a great impact on how we engage
SM
As a college student whose school was abruptly shut down due to COVID-19, this app truly hit home for me. The college experience is unique not because of the stellar faculty members or quality of the dining hall food ā€“ it's truly about the peers you are surrounded by. With millions of students across the United States being forcedā€”albeit for good reasonā€”to say confined to their homes, I can really see Glimpse being a game changer. Not only can us students continue to remain in contact with our existing friends, but Glimpse enables us to tap into our college community virtually and meet new people through various college "Rooms." It's truly unique for an app to empower me to go beyond my comfort zone and form new bonds with those who I only "see around" but never actually talk to. I'm looking forward to seeing where Glimpse goes from here!
Helena Merk
Maker
@shreym This comment warmed my heart. Especially the "truly unique for an app to empower me to go beyond my comfort zone". With our previous product, Gravitate, we weren't able to achieve this, and are so excited that this approach is working:)
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