Cord

One tap voice chat

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One tap voice chat

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Cord was an incredibly simple way to send voice messages on smartphones, tablets and smartwatches. Within a few months, Cord was installed by over 1M people around the world. In 2016, Cord was acquired by Spotify and the product was sunset. At Spotify, the Cord team founded a new group focused on exploring new ways we interact with audio.

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Hmm. Not for me. Only because the reason I don't like talking on the phone is because the talking aspect is usually disruptive to my environment. @baxterjeff, what is different about Cord than the ones that @rrhoover mentioned? Also, this is what I thought of when I watched the video. :)

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12yr ago

Spotify

Maker

@McCroden Talking certainly isn't best for every situation. But of course neither is texting, so we think there's space to fill here. Haven't spent a ton of time with either of these as we've been pretty heads down over here. But the first thing that stands out to me is a time limit. The worst part of voice mail is long droning messages. We're trying hard to steer voice messaging away from that. We're also thinking about the one to many message, once you collect a few contacts on Cord, you'll notice you can send to one, some, or all of them. But I think we've all hit on the idea that simple one tap/hold interactions can work incredibly well for audio. (and in the case of Taptalk or Blab photos and video) Ah, good old Nextel!

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12yr ago

@baxterjeff Very good. Yeah, I definitely agree that you need to have a limit. Good luck!

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12yr ago

Startup Stash

love the look and feel of this app. Wether the talking thing is going to be something useful,I'll have to find out. One question though @baxterjeff: How do I invite people who don't have a username yet?

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12yr ago

Spotify

Maker

@bramk Thanks! we obviously think voice is going to make a comeback, but we're biased... There is no invite built in right now, but that and a few other tweaks/features are "Waiting for Review", so stay tuned.

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12yr ago

Tried it and like it, but I wish the time limit were SHORTER. How did you settle on the 12 second limit?

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12yr ago

Spotify

Maker

@oolah Thanks! We actually had a 15 sec limit for most our beta testing, it was a gut feeling thing, but also a bit based on this study: http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/9... We figured that 15 secs was as long as a message could get before the receiving party thought "oh boy, how long is this going to go on!" We soon realized that 1: most messages were much shorter & 2: 12 seconds allowed us to break down the circle into intuitive units. We're so used to seeing a 12 hour clock that a 12 second 'clock' is instantly readable.

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12yr ago

VeeFriends

So proud of being involved here! Feel like I will look back at this in 3 yrs and say "YUP, I fucking KNEW IT"

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12yr ago

I dig it, but I really feel like it should default to speaker audio vs headset audio. And, I don't even see an (apparent?) option to set it to speaker vs headset. Edit: Sorry guys. I left my MiniJambox on downstairs and the "speaker" audio was playing thru that. My bad. I even saw the "always play quietly" option on my profile :)

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12yr ago

Spotify

Maker

Hey everyone. Co-founder and Designer of Cord here. Super excited to hear what everyone thinks. Hope you like it!

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12yr ago

Product Hunt

More apps are consolidating social interactions down to a single tap (or hold). Taptalk and Blab are a few of the more well known (in the startup world) but audio-focused Waved and ChiChat are more similar to Cord. Downloading it now.

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12yr ago

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