It's like ham radio without the radio. Or Clubhouse without the influencers or NFT talk.
Show HN: Soapbox – drop-in audio for casual conversation with strangers
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#12It's like ham radio without the radio. Or Clubhouse without the influencers or NFT talk.
As a ham, my thoughts exactly. Probably with a lot less talk about ailments, the weather, and antennas though.
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#13Hi everyone, my name is Dean. I am the founder of the Soapbox. I launched this iOS App as a tool to casually talk to strangers or friends on your own time. I came to work on Soapbox after I experienced other social audio apps that started to detract from recreating the experience of meeting new people in real life. I launched Soapbox with the intention of creating a more casual and spontaneous social audio app, that…
Congrats on your launch, it’s a pretty great experience. The X button has to go away though, it’s a weird behavior that I’m trying to do other things in the app and it kicks me out of the conversation.
Other than that it works pretty great.
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#14Hi everyone, my name is Dean. I am the founder of the Soapbox. I launched this iOS App as a tool to casually talk to strangers or friends on your own time. I came to work on Soapbox after I experienced other social audio apps that started to detract from recreating the experience of meeting new people in real life. I launched Soapbox with the intention of creating a more casual and spontaneous social audio app, that…
Seeing that privacy is a big concern with Clubhouse (not just taking contact data, but also recording convos and who knows what they do with them), is Soapbox implemented in a more privacy preserving manner? I'm not sure what can be done regarding e2e encryption when we're talking about WebRTC and TURN, but I would love to hear your take on this.
You can't have a group voice chat service without recording. They will knock your door soon if you do.
There are just so much surveillance related regulations that I can't believe that's possible. I have first hand experience when I worked in the Telecom industry. Regulators do not ignore any platform with substantial traffic.
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#15Hi everyone, my name is Dean. I am the founder of the Soapbox. I launched this iOS App as a tool to casually talk to strangers or friends on your own time. I came to work on Soapbox after I experienced other social audio apps that started to detract from recreating the experience of meeting new people in real life. I launched Soapbox with the intention of creating a more casual and spontaneous social audio app, that…
Congrats on your launch, it’s a pretty great experience. The X button has to go away though, it’s a weird behavior that I’m trying to do other things in the app and it kicks me out of the conversation. Other than that it works pretty great.
Hey thanks! yeah we need to make that more intuitive, the x button is to leave the room, but you can swipe down to hide that view.
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#16I'm so sad to see iPhone-first applications. Can we please have web versions first, and later on all the platform specific apps?
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#17Hi everyone, my name is Dean. I am the founder of the Soapbox. I launched this iOS App as a tool to casually talk to strangers or friends on your own time. I came to work on Soapbox after I experienced other social audio apps that started to detract from recreating the experience of meeting new people in real life. I launched Soapbox with the intention of creating a more casual and spontaneous social audio app, that…
Awesome. I’m a semi fan of clubhouse but the large rooms and hierarchy is off putting. I’ll try you out
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#18This reminds me of the early 80's in the UK. I think for 50p/minute or something you could dial a telephone number that was essentially a group chat. Some kids at my school did it from the school library which didn't make them very popular with the authorities.
Yeah a couple of friends told me it reminds them of those, I think they were called party lines!
Oh! Eight! Nine! One! Fifty! Fifty! Fifty!
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seeing that privacy is a big concern with Clubhouse (not just taking contact data, but also recording convos and who knows what they do with them), is Soapbox implemented in a more privacy preserving manner? I'm not sure what can be done regarding e2e encryption when we're talking about WebRTC and TURN, but I would love to hear your take on this.
You can't have a group voice chat service without recording. They will knock your door soon if you do. There are just so much surveillance related regulations that I can't believe that's possible. I have first hand experience when I worked in the Telecom industry. Regulators do not ignore any platform with substantial traffic.
Wait why would recording be required for regulations? Is that a law??
Re: Show HN: Soapbox – drop-in audio for casual conversation with strangers
#20Hi everyone, my name is Dean. I am the founder of the Soapbox. I launched this iOS App as a tool to casually talk to strangers or friends on your own time. I came to work on Soapbox after I experienced other social audio apps that started to detract from recreating the experience of meeting new people in real life. I launched Soapbox with the intention of creating a more casual and spontaneous social audio app, that…
Awesome. I’m a semi fan of clubhouse but the large rooms and hierarchy is off putting. I’ll try you out
Yeah, if you think that the I think soapbox may be right for you!