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I've been wanting for a while to share my experience of loneliness and how I overcame it 7 years ago during my PhD in the hopes that people who find themselves stuck in a similar s…

I think that is fair if the expectation is such that you contribute interesting ideas, like in a forum. However, when it is one on one communication, many times people are looking …

Our reliance on online interactions is responsible for the increase in the tendency to ghost. That is a big problem because that means more proportion of people's attempts to conne…

Wouldn’t mind that’s for sure

Definitely should be a balance between individualism and collectivism. Covid drove us all the way to one extreme, and now some people seem to crave the opposite. But it is also int…

"If I told you, 'I went into my backyard, I made this pill. It's amazing. It's free. If you take it, it'll actually improve your health, make you feel better, improve your performa…

please refer to above comment. They are real voices (sometimes with filter) with real people behind them :)

Thank you very much!

Thank you for your suggestion! Is it this? : https://www.metafilter.com/ I have never been there before.

These are real voices from real places. It does have 2 AI voice filter options available for people who want to stay anonymous, but the audio sources are real people. You can tell …

What was also incredible was that there were not only people experiencing loneliness here, but also people who did not feel lonely but were on the app to support others going throu…

I hope you are doing better today than yesterday. (TLDR in the comments; or enjoy my story :) ) Why: About 11 months ago, I launched my app for the first time on Reddit's r/lonely …

That is a very good point. On the actual app, you are able to carry a conversation with a stranger, going way beyond just sharing your short audio status messages. We will try to c…

That is a fair point. We did want to promote it on Hacker News because it is such a great forum to get the word out. We apologize if it came off as a bit off-putting. But we do hop…

Thank you very much for your feedback! I agree with you that we should be more incisive on our messaging instead of being too promotional like a mass-market ad. But rest assured, w…

Thank you for your comment. The crux of the platform is that you can connect with other people going through similar things as you from half-way across the world using the power of…

That is great to hear! Sometimes it is hit-or-miss. I think it might have to do something with the AWS backend that sometimes fail to connect instantly. We plan to improve on this …

Thank you very much. Voice connections without the element of vanity (photos, videos) can allow for authentic connections between strangers that texts cannot convey. It is what we …

It is the web-demo of the app that we have. On our iOS and Android app, we have onboarding pages that guide you what our mission is, and how to use the app. Sorry if the web-demo i…

Great point. We are working to optimize the load time as we have built this quickly to get it out into the world

I agree that any social media has the potential be manipulated for sexual solicitation. I think we have an innate defense mechanism for that right now which is people need to leave…