Quickie - 3-60 second video calls with your friends

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. 😃

I've been beta testing Quickie for the last two weeks. The time constraint is really fun and always leaves you wanting more....in a good way! Well done Ben + Sophia!

Looks great @bencera_! We’re in the same space but it’s cool to see you guys totally get it! When we launched @heyyo a lot of people just couldn’t understand why we limited the call time, but doing so keeps it fun, short & exciting, and you actually end up calling your friends more. Nice work!

OMG love the name! 😍

This is seriously pretty cool :). I've seen earlier versions of this but @bencera_ and team have done a great job :) Congrats!

I like the idea a lot @bencera_. I'm fascinated by how constraints can take something ordinary and transform it into an exponentially more interesting product. 140 characters with Twitter and ephemerality with Snapchat are great examples. In the case of Quickie, setting the time limit beforehand is genius! Nobody answers the phone anymore, but knowing the time commitment ahead of time could change that.

congrats on launch @bencera_ but pick it up when I'm trying to QUICKIE you ;)

this is great @bencera_ . so much has been done in video but this still manages to feel fresh / fun / exciting. on point with that uniqueness comment as well.