Bonfire

The new group video chat app from Facebook 🔥

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The new group video chat app from Facebook 🔥

3 followers

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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.

Launch tags:iOS•Messaging•Social Network

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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

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9yr ago

Jason and Tyler 100mph Podcast - Episode 1

@gflandre well said.

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9yr ago

@gflandre facebook owns instagram…

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9yr ago

@balupton yes, and they copied Snapchat

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9yr ago

Product Hunt

A few months ago The Verge's @caseynewton spilled the beans on Facebook's Houseparty competitor. Today, @mattnavarra discovered Bonfire in the Danish App Store. While Facebook's essentially added the same functionality to Messenger, it makes sense to create a separate app to create its own notification system and social graph. I'm curious to hear Houseparty @benrbn's thoughts on this. EDIT: We wrote about Bonfire in today's @ProductHunt Daily. Get it while it's hot! 📰

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9yr ago

First Twitter with Meerkat competitor Periscope, now Facebook with Houseparty competitor Bonfire. I don't think he is too thrilled ;)

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9yr ago

@roy_hermann_ueland @rrhoover Seriously, Ben can't catch a break. Things were different with Meerkat. I hope with Houseparty, he is able to compete with Facebook.

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9yr ago

@roy_hermann_ueland 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

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9yr ago

@roy_hermann_ueland @ohitsmerenz 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

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9yr ago

Journy

@roy_hermann_ueland @ohitsmerenz @gradx 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?

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9yr ago

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Unearthed on the Danish App Store. Hard to download if not in Denmark... but not impossible ;)

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9yr ago

Behold

@mattnavarra Finally we get something first.

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9yr ago

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@mattnavarra @chopeh didn't you get Lego first?

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9yr ago

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@chopeh Norway here and we don't have access.

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9yr ago

PlanetScale Boost

@mattnavarra Wow. The screenshots look almost identical to houseparty. They aren't even being sly about this one.

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9yr ago

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Psst! 😉 How to download Facebook’s unreleased Bonfire video chat app today: https://thenextweb.com/apps/2017...

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9yr ago

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.

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9yr ago

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. :)

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9yr ago

Now all I need is to find attractive, 20-something friends and I can finally have a use for apps like these!

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9yr ago

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