Show HN: An audio only social network
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Show HN: An audio only social network
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Re: Show HN: An audio only social network
#2This seems like a much saner social network.
Also, the comics at the end of the page are great, the drawings, the narrative, everything.
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#3Sounds nice - hope I don't get stuck in a recording loop to get it just right - like the perfect answering machine message
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#4It's called Ham Radio. ;)
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#5I’ve wanted to build something like this for a while, down to the 1-minute length restriction and follow/reply interaction. (And to go with it, a small low-power smartphone without a screen!) The main thing that stopped me was that I was working at Facebook when I came up with it.
However, I probably won’t be using this for one reason: waves are ephemeral, deleted from their servers after a week.
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#6watching that promo video the value proposition is you get to hear about all the dick moves your friends are pulling on each other.
edit- read the comic, I'm even more confused.
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#7Remember when people used to visit the people they care to listen to, and would actually sit down, and physically listen to them? But now our lives are too busy and filled with non-stop schedules so we just don't have time anymore. And even if we did have time, we'd feel like we were wasting time. We're missing something vital in life with all this technology running it for us. I think this app is inspired by the developers realizing we need that basic human need, but without fully realizing what it is. So they came up with a way to sort of do the exact same thing, but asynchronously, and as a social media app.
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#8It's called Ham Radio. ;)
When my Ham buddy passed away two years ago, I was unable to hear our local club's last call discussion for him. I wasn't able to get to a radio at the time. I wish someone had been willing to step up with some technology and at the very least, record it.
Point being, sometimes more modern technology can be better than the old stuff. If he had instead had social circles interested in a more modern platform, then maybe I could have been a part of it. I'm all for people like the OP here trying to innovate in the audio space. I think the medium has a lot to offer.
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#9Reminds me of party lines and voice bulletin boards, perhaps created without awareness of them?
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#10watching that promo video the value proposition is you get to hear about all the dick moves your friends are pulling on each other. edit- read the comic, I'm even more confused.
Well, there's one comic that is his motivations for building the app, which while admirable, but I'm not sure if appealing to my pathos makes me want to use the app any more than I would have otherwise. The other comic is better directed at why I/you might want to use it.