Dan Kantor
@dankantor
SoundOff is now live in the App Store! It’s been 4 years in the making… https://apps.apple.com/us/app/soundoff-daily-conversation/id1661147373
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Dan Kantor
@dankantor
In 2019 @novack and I were winding down our failed attempt at building a SaaS AI startup and were thinking of new things to build. We started talking about an app that asked everyone the same question and ppl answered it with voice
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Dan Kantor
@dankantor
We didn’t get very far, I think we just recorded a few answers ourselves. Fast forward a year and I’m at CNN leading the podcast team. Again @novack and I talk about doing this (he’s leading Web3 there) but it never goes anywhere (figured we’d get Anderson Cooper to ask the questions)
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Dan Kantor
@dankantor
Finally a couple of months ago @novack texts me one day - “want to try Answerz again?” (Answerz was our code name). I said yes, let’s do it. With the help of a couple of ex CNN producers, we initially got 20 ppl to record answers in the voice recording app and email them to us
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Dan Kantor
@dankantor
We uploaded on Dropbox and listened to them there. We could immediately tell how cool it was to hear all these different perspectives. We then set out to build a simple webpage to help us more easily collect answers
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Dan Kantor
@dankantor
That webpage turned into a simple webapp. Which eventually gave way to an iOS app written is SwiftUI with authentication, a real database (DynamoDB) and push notifications.
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Dan Kantor
@dankantor
After testing it in TestFlight with about 200 ppl, we’ve now released it into the App Store. We’ve got a waitlist in place to make sure everything scales properly as we grow. But I couldn’t be more excited about our future. We are getting great feedback and the engagement rates are really high.
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