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Cappuccino: Social App to Share Short Intimate Audio Stories

TECH CRUNCH - Mar 2 - Cappuccino is called the anti-Clubhouse, but the company has been iterating on its app concept for a couple of years. The startup says it is building an app that helps users record podcasts with others. The app lets users create groups with their friends or families. Members of the group can record a short audio message - a bean, as the startup calls it. They talk about what's on their mind for a couple of minutes. The next morning, group members receive a notification saying that your morning cappuccino has been brewed. Cappuccino is focused on close friends and family. Everything is private by design and focused on groups of real-life friends. Over the past couple of weeks, Cappuccino attracted 225k new users. They created 130k groups and sent ~1M audio stories.

by Romain Dillet
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The Future of Social Networks Might Be Audio

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW - Jan 26 - The latest apps bring back the intimacy of the spoken word - but there are serious moderation issues to be addressed. The best-known audio-focused network is Clubhouse but it lacks moderation. Gaming chat app Discord has also exploded in popularity. The service uses voice-over-IP software to translate spoken chat into text. By Oct, Discord estimated 6.7M users - up from 1.4M in Feb. Jimi Tele, the CEO of Chekmate, a "text-free" dating app that connects users through voice and video, says he wanted to launch an app that would be "catfish-proof". Users start voice memos that average 5s and then get progressively longer. And while Chekmate has a video option, Tele says the app's users favor using just their voices. This immediacy and authenticity is the reason Gilles Poupardin created Cappuccino, an app that takes voice recordings from a closed group of friends or family and delivers them as downloadable audio.

by Tanya Basu
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