Airchat Already Telegraphed Its Own Demise
Meet the audio MySpace.
It’s a new week, and there’s another invite-only social media app that Silicon Valley is all hot and bothered over — it’s called Airchat.
Airchat is the love child of Silicon Valley darling Naval Ravikant and Brian Norgard, the former Chief Product Officer at Tinder.
It’s billed as the “Social Walkie-Talkie”.
And that’s when I heard the coffin lid slam shut.
A walkie-talkie social app? I guess everything old is new again.
This tech would be new if I was five years old and was running around in the woods with an army helmet that didn’t fix correctly and an oversized plastic gun, yelling, “Do you read me? OVER!”
Listening to myself is painful
I have Microsoft Teams at work, and someone occasionally says, “I’m going to record this meeting.”
Reviewing the audio and transcripts, I sound like a complete Neanderthal.
“Humans are all meant to get along with other humans; it just requires the natural voice.” — Naval Ravikant
This means that people probably won’t like what I sound like on Airchat if I can’t even stand the way I sound.
