When Freia was evaluating joining a startup "TTYL", I was a little anxious. Mainly because I couldn't understand why an app that allows a phone to be used to talk made sense. Wouldn't people just use their phone. However after several years and times of being wrong, I knew that she got what I didn't.
Yesterday it seems like others are beginning to get it too. And TTYL was featured in a "The Wall Street Journal" article. And the summary said it all.
"Here’s a crazy idea: What if people started using their smartphones to actually speak to each other again?"
It was an interesting article and you can read the same at:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-phone-call-isnt-dead-its-evolving-11571457605
The excerpt of TTYL appears below:
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“Calling is fundamentally broken,” says Alex Ma, 26, co-founder and CEO of the company behind audio-chat app TTYL. “We went from landlines to the iPhone X but we haven’t changed the way we call people.”
After Mr. Ma graduated from college, he found it hard to keep in touch with friends; texting didn’t make him feel connected enough so he started calling them weekly. But the calls felt like they had to be scheduled events.
The app he launched last summer is like a voice-only version of Houseparty, the popular video hangout app recently acquired by Epic Games, the maker of “Fortnite.”
With TTYL (as in “talk to you later”), you put your earbuds in and open the app, then your friends get notified you’re free to talk. People can either keep a “room” open for others to join, or lock it for privacy. The app is designed for small, close groups: You wouldn’t have as many friends on TTYL as on Facebook or Instagram—only people you’d actually want to hear from.
“What our app allows you to do is in a single tap, jump into someone’s ears and start a conversation,” says Mr. Ma.
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And since the image of the app published in the article has Freia in it, she'll probably start claiming that she's appeared in the WSJ. And she's probably technically right.
Yesterday it seems like others are beginning to get it too. And TTYL was featured in a "The Wall Street Journal" article. And the summary said it all.
"Here’s a crazy idea: What if people started using their smartphones to actually speak to each other again?"
It was an interesting article and you can read the same at:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-phone-call-isnt-dead-its-evolving-11571457605
The excerpt of TTYL appears below:
...
“Calling is fundamentally broken,” says Alex Ma, 26, co-founder and CEO of the company behind audio-chat app TTYL. “We went from landlines to the iPhone X but we haven’t changed the way we call people.”
After Mr. Ma graduated from college, he found it hard to keep in touch with friends; texting didn’t make him feel connected enough so he started calling them weekly. But the calls felt like they had to be scheduled events.
The app he launched last summer is like a voice-only version of Houseparty, the popular video hangout app recently acquired by Epic Games, the maker of “Fortnite.”
With TTYL (as in “talk to you later”), you put your earbuds in and open the app, then your friends get notified you’re free to talk. People can either keep a “room” open for others to join, or lock it for privacy. The app is designed for small, close groups: You wouldn’t have as many friends on TTYL as on Facebook or Instagram—only people you’d actually want to hear from.
“What our app allows you to do is in a single tap, jump into someone’s ears and start a conversation,” says Mr. Ma.
"
And since the image of the app published in the article has Freia in it, she'll probably start claiming that she's appeared in the WSJ. And she's probably technically right.
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