I've been using Rodeo for a couple of months now and it's honestly been one of the best apps I've used for casual chats with friends. We all plan calls and virtual catch-up's with friends over WhatsApp, Zoom etc. but it always feels like such an effort and something you need to heavily plan, which is never something you want to feel when you just want to hang out with friends. Rodeo totally addresses this by having unobtrusive notifications to let you know when your friends are around to chat. Also, the ability to form groups of friends and communities on Rodeo is brilliant, also allowing you to schedule conversations, topics or gaming sessions where your friends can opt-in to be notified when conversations are starting. Massive fan of Rodeo and all that @midaskwant is doing with it, glad to see it go live today 🥳

@calum Thanks for hunting us Calum! And of course, thanks for being such a lovely member of our early community. With Rodeo we've been trying for almost a year now to make talking to your friends as lightweight and accessible as possible. When we started thinking about the audio space, it felt like every possible interaction through voice (calls, Zoom links, hangouts, etc) require you to *ask* for someone's time. That's a big barrier to talk in our opinion. On Rodeo, we reverse that. Instead of asking for someone's time, we designed Rodeo to allow you to express when *you are free*. Through nuanced features: "hey!" button, the activity list, but most importantly the notification to friends when you're in the app, we hope to make it easier to capture mutual availability. Which in turn, gives us those casual and unexpected fun chats. With a strong focus on safety and moderation, we have done two things: 1.) A default "All Friends" group where friends-of-friends can join in when you're talking, but only listen unless they're invited up. 2.) with Private Groups, nobody can join in on a conversation unless they're a member of that group. Happy to go into any further detail and thanks for checking it out! (also big shoutout to @pwign for the gif/animation!)

Calum Webb

Lazy

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5yr ago

Midas Kwant

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Aaron O'Leary

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Love Rodeo. Recently removed CH for a few reasons and replaced it on my dock with Rodeo, whilst I like drop in audio, I appreciate the ease of use regarding moderation in private groups.

Sven van der Zee

MagicPush

Great work Midas and team! When Android ;)

@svenvdz the next steps... Soon!

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