Bonfire
The new group video chat app from Facebook 🔥
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Matt Navarra

Bonfire - The new group video chat app from Facebook 🔥

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Bonfire is the long-rumored Houseparty competitor for Facebook. It's a group video chat app that lets you hang out with your best friends and meet new ones. Open the app to start video chatting instantly.

It's currently only available in the Danish App Store.

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Ryan Hoover
A few months ago The Verge's @caseynewton spilled the beans on Facebook's Houseparty competitor. Today, @mattnavarra discovered Bonfire in the Danish App Store. While Facebook's essentially added the same functionality to Messenger, it makes sense to create a separate app to create its own notification system and social graph. I'm curious to hear Houseparty @benrbn's thoughts on this. EDIT: We wrote about Bonfire in today's @ProductHunt Daily. Get it while it's hot! 📰
Roy Hermann Ueland
First Twitter with Meerkat competitor Periscope, now Facebook with Houseparty competitor Bonfire. I don't think he is too thrilled ;)
Saif Al Falah
@roy_hermann_ueland @rrhoover Seriously, Ben can't catch a break. Things were different with Meerkat. I hope with Houseparty, he is able to compete with Facebook.
Renz Bernardo
@roy_hermann_ueland yeah, i feel bad for him but at the same time i feel really proud. shouldn't these companies (fb, twitter) hire him and his team instead? Look at those promising products theyve released recently, what more can they do with a bunch of cash in hand
David Yo
@roy_hermann_ueland @ohitsmerenz if he can't make 52M work then consider it another failure. the reality is facebook will clone anything in the social space so everyone must be prepared for the inevitable
Maximiliaan Van Kuyk
@roy_hermann_ueland @ohitsmerenz @gradx Yea it kind of a sad reality. I wonder if there is a play one could make to avoid this. Do you think Facebook considered acquihire before blatant copy?
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Hunter
Unearthed on the Danish App Store. Hard to download if not in Denmark... but not impossible ;)
Pete Lacey
@mattnavarra Finally we get something first.
Paul de Fombelle
@mattnavarra @chopeh didn't you get Lego first?
Suganthan Mohanadasan
@chopeh Norway here and we don't have access.
Mike Coutermarsh
@mattnavarra Wow. The screenshots look almost identical to houseparty. They aren't even being sly about this one.
Guillaume Flandre
I always have mixed feelings about such obvious copies of competitors (e.g. Instagram Stories). - On one side, I'm outraged that such Big Cos copy so openly smaller startups - On a more neutral standpoint, I acknowledge the fact that they have the right to do it - But then as a user, I might find this version even better than the original and be delighted by it
Jason Hitchcock
@gflandre well said.
Benjamin Lupton
@gflandre facebook owns instagram…
Guillaume Flandre
@balupton yes, and they copied Snapchat
Steven Rueter
Houseparty by Facebook
Hayden Evans
Facebook is completely out of new ideas.
Vincent Orleck
@hayden_evans I think you mean LinkedIn 😂 (or both!)
Carlos Pacheco
Facebook: Masters at going where the puck has been...
Matt Navarra
Hunter
Psst! 😉 How to download Facebook’s unreleased Bonfire video chat app today: https://thenextweb.com/apps/2017...
Evan Thomas Paul
I think this has potentially big B2B implications. If they integrate video chat into their Workplace product, then we could see big impacts upon GoToMeeting, Blue Jeans, Skype, etc. All of those products have intermittent performance issues and aren't well integrated into other communication tools. Microsoft seems to aspire for Skype to be well integrated with Yammer & Sharepoint, but don't seem to have hit the mark yet.
Andrew Falchook
Man, I feel SO bad for the Houseparty (formerly Meerkat) team. Facebook and Twitter sure love to jump right into whatever market they happen to innovate in. It's the free market, I suppose. :)
Stefan Wirth
Facebook is becoming the American rocket internet 😵
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