Chatmunk

Experience topics & events in real-time channels for Twitter

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Experience topics & events in real-time channels for Twitter

2 followers

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Launch tags:iOS•News•Social Network

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Startup TV

Maker

Hey Product Hunt! We're going to give Product Hunt community members early access to Chatmunk. I've written a medium post that defines the problems we're addressing and explains why we've built the product. It's here: https://medium.com/@erictwillis/... Whatever question you may have, I've likely rambled long enough there to have covered it. Our team has always loved communities and community-based products. We want to bring the "community feel" to twitter by creating topic-based communities you can easily jump in and out of without sorting through the unfiltered feed. If you want to discuss the Warrior’s game, jump into the Golden State Warriors’ channel and discuss the team with other fans. There is no need to curate a list on Twitter or follow hashtags. You don’t have to scan your feed continuously to find something that engages you. The feed in the Warriors’ channel will be a real-time discussion about amazing plays, controversial calls, the latest 3 from one of the Splash Brothers, or latest Riley Curry vine. If you want to discuss products, you could join the Product Hunt channel. Or subscribe to game 1 of the NBA Finals to discuss it live with other fans. You’ll easily find the content you want and others who are passionate about the topic. Here are highlights of some of Chatmunk's features -Quickly create topic-based communities -Create subchannels for topics that are important for your community -Create events to that your members can subscribe to and be notified of when they go live -Go Private or approval-only for more intimate communities We're currently testing Chatmunk with some early users and would love to invite you in. We'll all jump into the Product Hunt channel :)

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10yr ago

Startup TV

Maker

@bentossell Yes, Ben. We know the struggles and I imagine this will be incredibly challenging! I don't think this targets Moments as it's currently constructed. Moments is more of a news product that delivers bite-sized updates as events are happening. There could be some overlapped depending on the type of content that is shared, though. Anchor has the best onboarding process I've seen in a while. So that would make anyone rethink their onboarding process to see if there is a way it could be improved. Beyond the onboarding, you can tell that a lot of thought was put into every interaction. It's just an amazingly well-designed product. I wouldn't be shocked if it's the breakout app of 2016.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@bentossell Yes! I was thinking of some interesting ways to incorporate video/audio into the experience (jotting down some ideas for the future) and as soon as I saw Anchor thought it would be cool to have an API to do a deep integration.

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10yr ago

@erictwillis Eric this is awesome! I've been thinking about a similar idea to this (see my digest idea here - http://bit.ly/1KnQFXQ) in terms of how to answer the question, "How can we help people find more of the conversations on Twitter they would be interested in?" in the same way @Abrams has done for news. So I'm very curious to see how Chatmunk can help bridge that gap with the channels/topics/chatmunk rooms sorted out. One feature that might be interesting is being alerted when a specific user or influencer you follow tweets about a channel you follow, for instance I might want to know when the local journalist tweets about the Warriors, but not when they tweet about the 49ers or Giants. Anyway excited to jump on and engage, congrats on the launch!

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10yr ago

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Maker

@patrickh @abrams Just read your Medium post and recommended it. We're actually working on a notification to work just like the one you've mentioned! Thanks for the feedback.

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10yr ago

Meddler

Like @jack said few days ago, Twitter is Live. It doesn't have a common social network definition. My question is: How can you have a real discussion when a community have a thousand subscribers?

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10yr ago

Startup TV

Maker

@tsunaze Hello Pierre-Marie. Thanks for the question. Communities can have sub-channels much in the same way you can on Slack. So ideally, someone would use the channel within a community that has the type of atmosphere they're looking for at that moment. If you want to be in the channel with 500 fans discussing the NBA Finals or in sub-channel with 20 fans, you'll have your choice. We'll certainly be working on this and I've learned a lot of about the dynamics of real-time discussion by managing a few Slack communities and also interviewing people about the types of discussions they would like.

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10yr ago

Meddler

@erictwillis Thanks for the answer, "I appreciate" :D. Hope to test it soon

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10yr ago

Startup TV

Maker

@tsunaze Thanks Pierre-Marie. We're letting everyone in from Product Hunt asap so we'll see you there!

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10yr ago

Just signed up, 179th in the queue! By the way, neat signup system @erictwillis - I'm guessing you used Maitre? (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...)

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10yr ago

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Maker

@jonbstrong Yes. We're using Maitre.

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10yr ago

This is so cool. The design is also amazing. One question though, can we create new communities based on topic or I can just select one from the list?

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10yr ago

Startup TV

Maker

@risonsimon You can create communities of any kind. We have categories that you can select to organize the communities/channels, but you can create any type of channel you would like. I'm sure @sethlouey would be happy to know you like the design.

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10yr ago

Operation Pie

Maker

@risonsimon thanks for the kind words. Our goal is to progressively make the UX seamless.

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10yr ago

token tally

Look forward to trying it out , also focus on topics vs communities maybe interesting . Bindle was similar without sub channels ? https://www.producthunt.com/tech...

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10yr ago

Startup TV

Maker

@divraj Hey. I know Chris from Bindle. Our vision is much different. Chris is a great guy. I think they're doing really well in the gaming sector (at least he mentioned that last time I talked to him).

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10yr ago

MarketerHire

@erictwillis @divraj o hai :D

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10yr ago

unrd

I could imagine brands using this in a similar way that they use facebook pages. Did you guys consult with any brands / services when creating it? Generally think this could be really interesting though - I like the slack channels mention above. It also seems like a more active version of a list, something that I think is powerful but under used.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@shib88 Hello Shib. I did talk to brands. I also talked to athletes who thought it would be cool to set up channels for their team and put the game schedules as events in their channels to pull their fans in together. We have some awesome ideas on how we could make the experience really cool.

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10yr ago

@erictwillis cool idea. One of the data elements that might fall out of these communities is incredible metadata (accounts who participate; where they are located; topics they discuss in the small groups). Is your long term vision to build a free service that might be supported by advertiser-sponsored channels or do you have another revenue model in mind?

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10yr ago

Startup TV

Maker

@grmeyer You're very close to what I'm thinking. I also think it would be awesome to do a revenue share with the channel owners (opt-in advertising for their channel(s). If you have a huge number of people chatting about a live sporting event, there are some interesting things you could do to engage them during game breaks, etc.

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10yr ago

@erictwillis yes, fine line between "sponsored content", e.g. interactives during breaks and "landing pages", which end up looking like ads. There may also be an interesting business here creating a parallel landing page using the same technology (imagine the NBA asking you whether you like the Cleveland Cavaliers or the Golden State Warriors better, and then using that data to build a lead list for single-ticket and subscription leads).

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10yr ago

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