Hey Makers and Hunters! 👋
I’m really excited to share Oom with you all, a chat app that’s designed to skip the small talk and help you get to know people like never before ✨
Over the past five years, myself and my co-founder, Ed, found that we were posting increasingly less to social media and spending more and more time in group chats and DMs. But while most chat apps are useful tools for staying in touch and sharing links, they’re all largely the same! We were having the same conversations with the same people in the same kind of environment across five or six different platforms.
We started building Oom because we felt that it was high time for something new. Our mission is to create the most fun and engaging place to chat with friends, new and old.
Here’s how we’re doing it:
⚡ Chats are loaded with thousands of prompts that break the ice and drive the conversation forward.
🎚️ By answering prompts, you level up your chat and unlock new topics and features.
🌱 Every chat contains a creature called a Fini that represents the relationship between the two users and evolves as you stay connected.
🎲 Our new ‘Roll the dice’ feature lets you meet new people in an anonymous format. You’ll have 3 hours to chat to a mystery user before deciding whether to reveal your identity or end things there.
You can download Oom today on both iOS and Android at https://oomtogether.com. It’s totally free for anyone to use.
We're just getting started and would love to hear your feedback, comments, and feature ideas! 😊
Happy Ooming,
Sam
Oom is a breath of fresh air in the animal software chat niche.
I like talking the strangers, good mechanics and a unique 70% female userbase.
I really like the design here. Overall, you are a really creative team.
Is this like an animal farm for chat groups?
I perceive this as a gamification of chats.
Super into the ideas behind Oom and was lucky to test an earlier version. My wife and I have become avid fans, motivated by the goal of unlocking new levels and the extra and unexpected benefit of adding to table conversations. Excited to see how the product develops!
Hey Sam! How do you see Oom evolving in the future, both in terms of functionality and user base? Have you thought about B2B direction? For example, team members can use it to build better relationships.
Great work! Looks like a lot of time and thought went into this! Definately gonna check it out
Into the next level before you know it. Congratulations on finding how to make that happen.
hey guys, very interesting idea you have cooked up here. when I tested it it accelerated my chat many times over!! super interested to see where you guys go with this one.. congrats
Hey Sam, I love that the Oom team is attempting to gamify chatting / friendships by including some sort of character that grows with your chat and relationship. I appreciate making group chats / personal chats more unique as the core idea and will check it out. I can do without the random connections as that part seems a bit more Chatroulette to me.
What has been the biggest technical challenge in developing this?
Clicked that upvote. But I've gotta ask, how do these prompts steer clear of feeling, I dunno, kinda forced? And what about the flow of conversation when using these prompts? Is Oom slick enough to ensure the chat doesn't turn into an awkward Q&A session? Keen to see how it works in the wild!
About Oom on Product Hunt
“The chat app that skips the small talk”
Oom launched on Product Hunt on May 15th, 2024 and earned 178 upvotes and 24 comments, placing #14 on the daily leaderboard. Meet new people and go deeper with friends on Oom. Thousands of fun prompts help you get to know each other like never before.
Oom was featured in Messaging (51.9k followers), Games (98.5k followers) and Social Networking (1.7k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 38.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Oom?
Oom was hunted by Sam Spike. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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