Droplet

Hey! It’s Yannie, co-founder of Droplet. I’m a musician and Youtuber with 40+ million views. 💧It all started with a 2AM night in my college dorm. Tired of working on my problem sets, I decided to spontaneously pull out my piano keyboard. Within minutes, I had made my first Lofi beat: Droplet. Within minutes of making it, I posted it my socials. Within minutes, I heard my friends playing my short song in the hallways, dancing to the beat. People wanted more. They wanted it fast. Within a couple of weeks, Droplet became a short song with 20K+ listeners. What I realized was that there wasn’t any easy way to just share and drop a beat, a one-liner, a thought. Especially as a music YouTuber, my community of influencer friends wanted to find a space to collab, make beats, share funny ideas – without having to put focus on visual aesthetics. As a competitive classical musician who has competed in many competitions, I’ve witnessed visual biases that influence how people perceive a performer. Imagine preparing a Tik Tok. You’re thinking about the background setup, outfit, makeup, and dance choreography. But what about the music, the joke itself? We want to promote the audio side – where the joke or the music beat actually slaps. So much goes into the preparation process of making a polished video, that the audio creativity dissipates. That’s why we are making Droplet an audio-only social media platform, where we want creators who put audio first – those who believe that they can shine creatively through audio, without being judged by their cover. Whether it’s a joke, a music beat, or even ASMR, if you’re content, it’s good. Visuals are not putting a stop to how far your spontaneous audio creativity can go. We wanted to not be the only people to share beats quickly and accessibly. I wanted my non-musical friends to also share creative audio. Ideas, thoughts, sport highlights, beatboxing – something short and sweet that can make someone’s day, within seconds. Try it out. Drop something and discover your creativity through audio. Hear you there, Yannie

Hi there! 👋 My name is David and I’m one of the co-founders of Droplet 💧 the new sound-bite social media app! Who are we? 🧑‍💻 We’re Yannie, Sean, and Dave! Yannie is a student (on leave) at Stanford, Sean a former software engineer at AT&T, and Dave is a student (also on leave) at Harvard. We met building the Crown Education Challenge and loved working together - which has now led to us building Droplet! The problem? 🔊 Audio creators don’t have a space to share socially. If you think of visual social media, many names come to mind - Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, and more. But if the talent you want to share is not visual, where is your place to post? What we’re building 💧 Droplet is an audio social media app of sound-bites between 5 and 60 seconds. You can record these in app (or upload from your files) and share them with a community of your friends and listeners! Listeners can choose between a default Discover feed - including all types of Drops - or listening within a specific category (we call them Clouds). Our vision 🚀 Drops, 30 second sound bites, will become the new audio media form. We believe in Drops and Droplet for three key reasons: Merit-based social media - less focus on visual appeal, more focus on audio talent and merit Mindshare and timeshare - passive and active usage. Open the app when you want to, listen passively otherwise Fostering new creativity - there’s so many audio use cases out there that we currently don’t consume. Comedy sound bites? Music beas? What you can do and what’s new 💡 Create 🎤 Record Drops in-app, or upload from your files 🎈 Add filters! Sound like Darth Vader, Helium, and more 👯 Duet - found an awesome beat? Add your track on top Listen 🎧 Listen actively and engage - comment, like, audio replies! 😴 Go passive, turn off your screen, but continue listening ☁️ Favorite genre? Filter your feed by Cloud Share 📸 Export your favorite Drops directly to your Insta story 🌐 Add your website to your profile 🤝 Invite your friends via text Download out our beta and let us know what you think! bit.ly/joindroplet 💙 Also, check out @yannietan 's message for a more in-depth look on how we got started 🎵 Hear you there! Dave

I've been using droplet for the past few weeks, and I have really enjoyed the experience so far. The user interface is extremely sleek and easy to navigate. I really enjoyed recording and uploading drops, as well as listening to others' drops. I'm excited for the future of this app!