Vooiced

Twitter for voice notes, hear voices from around the world

2 followers

Twitter for voice notes, hear voices from around the world

2 followers

Vooiced helps you keep in the loop through short bite sized audio clips from all over the world

Launch tags:Social Media•Tech

Launch Team

AWS Activate CreditsCredits that fuel your startup’s next milestone

Promoted

Twitter for voice notes is an incredible concept. Dare I say it’s actually better than the concept of Twitter?

Report

6yr ago

Raycast

@jonokingwill why?

Report

6yr ago

Thoughts on http://home.hearmeoutapp.com/ and https://blog.producthunt.com/twi...?

Report

6yr ago

Vooiced

Maker

@leo_neo It's definitely a space where a lot of people are experimenting! I liked the direction Anchor were initially going, but the difficulty with this kind of project is maintaining a good experience as the user uses the app - it's very easy for users to bounce - and I'm trying very hard to figure out the best ways to deal with that! What are your thoughts?

Report

6yr ago

@wisanishilumani I would be inclined to say it's a feature Twitter could roll out fast themselves (and I am aware that it is the very old argument of big company Y is just going to do this). But perhaps you will find ways (that Twitter won't reproduce for business reasons or otherwise) to uniquely add value to justify its existence as a standalone product. That's really what I am wondering out :) There must be a way but I don't have the insight atm. As for bounce rate, that's something that I believe to be intimately tied with the above. You can already share a link to a recorded snippet on Twitter if you want to, to my knowledge. You have playlists and other features that Twitter doesn't have atm to my knowledge but they do not atm provide a sufficient USP from my point of view.

Report

6yr ago

Vooiced

Maker

@leo_neo You make some really good points! I think the best way for Twitter to do this is roll it out to verified users with large followings - otherwise it could destroy the quality of their feed; I can't imagine the amount of "testing" recordings uploaded; and then it goes back to the scanning issue - twitter is nice to scan through text, having to listen to audio and scan slowly might ruin that experience; it has to be done very carefully. Another thing they could try is to show 1 audio clip per 10 tweets or something, to preserve the scanability; but regardless, I think this sort of thing is best built down up, than up down.

Report

6yr ago

@wisanishilumani You might be right :) Curious to see what happens with vooiced.com

Report

6yr ago

It's very interesting and seems like a good idea, but the current implementation leaves much to be desired. I made an account (I think?) but can't find any settings or anything with regards to how to change profile information, etc. I'd definitely use it, but yeah, would love to see a more complete version.

Report

6yr ago

Vooiced

Maker

@mikewehner Hi Myke, thanks so much for the feedback. Love the detail! Working on better profile navigation as we speak! Did you find it was interactive enough? I.e. compelling to record your own voice etc?

Report

6yr ago

Hey, Wisani. Digging Vooiced. How might I reach out to ask a few questions re: your medium-term vision for this product? I’m a Product Designer based out of NYC currently working on a project building community around product discovery. Cheers

Report

6yr ago

Vooiced

Maker

@adamerbrown Hey Adam, for sure! Would love to have a chat! In summary, I'm building towards discussions - keen to elaborate further!

Report

6yr ago

Vooiced

Maker

I made Vooiced to make sure that voices get heard! Whether it's voices from people you follow, your friends, or world leaders - I thought it was important to give people a chance to have more of a say about what voices they'd like to hear - instead of being fed manufactured voices by media that has to be endorsed by governments.

Report

6yr ago

Raycast

@wisanishilumani what kind of learnings did you take (if any) from the likes of Anchor et al?

Report

6yr ago

Vooiced

Maker

@chrismessina Hey Chris, the biggest learning is definitely that a streams of audio really need to maintain a great experience as the user hears more audio. It's not as easy to scan through an audio feed as it is to scan through a twitter feed - so I have to double down on discovery and organisation. The ideal experience is for someone to be able to listen to a curated playlist whose audio clips share similiar context. The best ways I can think of doing that right now is 1) Discussions (where a person adds a voice, and a thread begins on that voice - that users can then listen to in playlist fashion) or 2) Very specific curated playlists - e.g. something similiar to what Headspace does (where they have an anxiety or stress course) - this could be a group of recordings from a student protest for example. Anything interesting you've found from Anchor's journey, and similiar products?

Report

6yr ago

Thoughts for Mac

Mate I dig this, and I really like how you have content on already so that it make sense on the first open. Congrats, I'm pinning this tab for the week!

Report

6yr ago

Vooiced

Maker

@marcperel Shot Marc! Time to do the hard work and get user generated content!

Report

6yr ago

there is a good opportunity to learn more about some topic with short opinions of different people while you have your eyes and hands on something else

Report

6yr ago

1 2 3 4

Reviews