Show IH - Gossip: Short Voice Stories!
Hey Indie Hackers 👋
I am Gleb, founder at Gossip (https://thegossip.app/download), where users create and share voice stories that expire every 7 days. Because who want's to listen to the old stuff?
Would love to know what you all think about Gossip: product design, flow and overall experience!
Gossip now is a fully remote tiny team of 4. We are at 500 MAU and growing, last month we had over 10,000 unique gossip plays!
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Just took a look at it. Any plans of launching an Android version, or will it stay an iOS exclusive for now?
I am trying to figure out when I would use something like this. I am not sure what short voice stories means. Also, some sales copy on your website would be good. And maybe a demo of your app would be nice.
Just thinking aloud here for a moment, but maybe you can allow people to play some of these voice stories on your site. So instead of writing the value prop, you and your team record stories and enable people to play it on the site. Or maybe pay a few people on Fiverr to create a few clips. These clips can highlight the main benefit of the app. Perhaps that is juicy gossip or fun stories or whatever else is super interesting.
Maybe you can do something like muzzleapp does on the right with the notifications. You might be able to do something like that with voice messages (I am assuming that is the benefit of the 7 days delete thing is i.e., embarrassing talk is not recorded forever)
Again, I am not sure if any of those ideas work. But ya, I think your current homepage is a little sparse and might benefit from more details.
Hey Prashant!
Thanks so much for your feedback, it's amazing 🤩
Gossip is all about short form async audio and spontaneous emotions - you can share your ideas, emotions and experiences right in the moment without worrying how you look or what's around you!
Also, 30 sec gossips are so fun to listen to on the go - you can't miss anything important cause it's async!
Love your idea about posting some content on the website - will discuss it with our team!
If you have any more thoughts - I am happy to talk about it on a zoom call or over email!
I firmly believe virtually every idea is fantastic. But the thing holding it back is communication. Paraphrasing Brant Pinvidic from his book The 3-Minute Rule, your audience needs to understand your idea the way you do for them to buy-in.
It sounds exciting the way you put it. 30 secs worth of gossip sounds like tiktok for audio without worrying about people judging you. Headphones on, and you can listen to gossip no matter when or where.
I am always happy to talk. I know how hard messaging can be, especially when surrounded by people who live and breathe it day in and day out. Drop me an email any time. You can find my email on my profile.