WeKiki

The best web-based multiparty video chat party platform.

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The best web-based multiparty video chat party platform.

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The best web-based multiparty video chat party platform. Where strangers become friends.

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WeKiki

Maker

Hi Product Hunt! WeKiki is a simple Chrome video chat platform. There can be up to four participants in video, and more watching and in the sidebar chat. We are currently only on Chrome, and non-mobile. The four person format is intimate— I’ve found in Appear.in that groups larger than 4 either talk over each other and get chaotic, or the opposite. In groups of 6+ people will turn their cameras off for long periods of time, or play music, or otherwise lag the conversation. Thank you in advance to the community for your questions, comments, and suggestions! I look forward to hearing what you have to say!

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9yr ago

WeKiki

Maker

@bentossell haha, you struck the balance between patience and urging me to post very well, I would say! First, I would say that Blab was a magical product. I am a former Blab user and I, like many others, mourned its eventual demise, even if the writing had been on the wall for a while. I have remained in touch with many of the people I met on Blab, and even met or hosted several of the people I knew only from the Internet. So you might notice that this version of WeKiki looks rather familiar. We kept the 4-person format. There's an active sidebar chat. Many of the people are even the same, haha. But 2 major things separate us even now: 1. We took a different route with the technology, attempting more P2P connections 2. We intend to monetize (because we are bootstrapping!) And in the future we have plans to be very different--our monetization strategy is slotted to be private rooms. We will be offering private DMs. We will open our API to the addition of bots and other customizations. But for now, we're rather retro. Thanks for the question, Ben!

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9yr ago

An American Road Trip

@kikischirr Impressive! Congrats :)

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9yr ago

WeKiki

Maker

@jpvalery Thank you, JP!

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9yr ago

RiteKit Company Logo API

@kikischirr Congrats on launching quickly and on bootstrapping WeKiki - and for the nerve to name it after yourself. I put some time into building a product plan for a "better Blab" myself, and we decided against it. Assessing the competitive landscape for a product whose customers would financially sustain, it looked grim. I wish you success with that. I'm of the belief that people will pay for sex and will pay for a meeting product, if it beats competitors in some ways, but they will not pay to hang out. Find a couple people (or just Jaron) to bounce ideas off - people who are familiar with the competitive landscape and want you to win. The monetization: there's honesty in this. The user knows what you're up to, what you want from him. You are not toying with him just to press his buttons and see what he will do, or collecting data on which videocalls he joins/creates, so as to later build an AI or sell him to advertisers. To be clear, this is why I never trusted the creators of Blab. Coming from years of experience with videocalls, both party-type and meetings, when I encountered Blab, I found just two things that I continue to believe they did well: 1. allowing potentially more people in the videocall page (in the chat) than are in the videocall 2. they initially seeded the community well (as I heard, from Slack communities and Reddit) Unfortunately, they quickly ceased putting any time into seeding the community. Please keep in mind that few people will quit using the site for the inevitable influx of trolls - if there are plenty of worthwhile people to hang with (and especially if they find that it's like every other day that they're meeting someone new and worthwhile.) So please seed this from beyond those who remember you from Blab. tty soon, I'm sure.

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9yr ago

WeKiki

Maker

@osakasaul Wow, Saul thank you for sharing your insights. Maybe I'll catch you on WeKiki sometime to discuss them further, haha. :) I think seeding the community, as you said, will be vital and one of our biggest challenges--that's something I'd like to discuss with you. Thanks again!

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9yr ago

UbiMeet

As others have said, would love if this were to fill the gap blab left. However, they really struggled with the monetization piece - I'm a bit skeptical that paid private chat rooms will fill that void (because at that point, aren't you just video chat like zoom?) but I hope you can make it work!

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9yr ago

WeKiki

Maker

@afhill My big fear regarding private rooms is not that we will appear just like the competition, but that it will kill the urge to make new friends. So we'll have to approach it carefully. I'm considering making the rooms need to be ephemeral also, like the main rooms currently are. What do you think? Would that help?

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9yr ago

UbiMeet

@kikischirr could help.. and actually, I should apologize, I was being very "feature-focused" there. If your use case is "people come here to have great convos with smart people they don't know yet", it's really a very different problem you're solving than video conferencing. People probably wouldnt see them as competitiors.. but you COULD benefit from "I already use Wekiki to help me find new friends, why would I want to go off and use something else once I've found them?"

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9yr ago

WeKiki

Maker

@afhill No need to apologize, you had an excellent point--didn't mean to divert the conversation, it's just that this has worried me for a bit. You're very right that the use case for the private premium rooms might not be apparent... Hm.

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9yr ago

UbiMeet

@kikischirr ya never know - think about all the sub-services that launched private twitter channels, etc. I always felt like blab had more of a chance to compete as a marketing/ brand awareness platform; maybe bring in some analytics, etc. If it could be used for marketers, you'd hit some legit budgets there!

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9yr ago

I love WeKiki! Kiki and her partner have done an AMAZING job of creating a platform that is for those of us who are in our 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s+ to connect! This platform is not full of hashtaging, seflie experting teenagers, but instead is full of real people wanting to make real connections with their peers!!! Kudos!

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9yr ago

WeKiki

Maker

@cheatwoodphoto hahhaha, no teens?--it's a feature! :P To be fair, Cheats, don't we have a few teens?

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9yr ago

Social Friendzy

@kikischirr you can count me as a teen. I'm constantly told to be less child like!

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9yr ago

I tried too, on Chrome, Windows and it works well. Now it's time to grab a few more friends and start some parties. I like that @kikischirr is fully dedicated to it, this only makes a huge difference with blab.

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9yr ago

WeKiki

Maker

@brunowinck Par-ty! Par-ty! Par-ty! :D

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9yr ago

Femwyse

I love how @kikischirr listens to our early suggestions :D

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9yr ago

WeKiki

Maker

@angeliqueangiea Angie, I owe you for all the outreach you've done on WeKiki. I will listen to your suggestions any day!

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9yr ago

How Many People Have Voted?

So awesome to see this hunted! I loved helping and being able to give some early feedback :) I think the premise is an intriguing one; though I tend to be more of a lurker than anything else, I love the potential of being able to reach out and talk to a variety of people. It's one of the things which originally brought me to Blab and why I became a big supporter of their mission. I think with WeKiki, there's an opportunity to fill a void which has been left since Blab shut down, especially as a place for people enthusiastic about these interpersonal dynamics to congregate. Where do you see WeKiki going over the next 6-12 months? Congrats on a great launch! :D

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9yr ago

WeKiki

Maker

@adammarx13 Thank you Adam! I appreciate your support. ...and want to say thank you for being my guinea-pig-confidant-co-conspirator-muse in this project.

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9yr ago

How Many People Have Voted?

@kikischirr I think Guinea-Pig-Confidant-Co-Conspirator-Muse is what i'm gonna put on my business cards ha

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9yr ago

Just For Today by Fred (Not Freud)

Looks cool! Anyway to create an account without using Facebook? As an Ex-Meerkat/Houseparty dev, I would like to note that it's a bit of a risk to rely on 3rd-party social graphs. Love the design and the UX, great work.

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9yr ago

WeKiki

Maker

@avizuber definitely a risk! But at the same time, it cuts down on young children and registered sex offenders, so I think there are definite benefits. :) Thank you!

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9yr ago

Healthfundit

I'm super excited to see this launch! What sorts of topics do people chat about or what do you expect to be a main use case?

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9yr ago

WeKiki

Maker

@larry_lawal I foresee there being 2 core groups of users: The first I call "power users" --they're on WeKiki for long periods of the day and their goal is to hang out, meet people, and make friends. So their chats are casual, meandering conversations. The second group I call "content creators" --they're on WeKiki to spread a message, whatever it might be. Right now, WeKiki doesn't have the marketing tools necessary to support all of their needs but as we expand our feature set, they will start showing up more often. I'm talking with Ricki Prime and a few other former Blab show hosts about creating something on WeKiki, and I've had interest from a few content creators who are new to video entirely! Thanks for the question, Larry! :D Will I see you around on WeKiki?

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9yr ago

Healthfundit

@kikischirr Absolutely!

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9yr ago

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