Friend.com - Meet someone new

Being a Chatroulette/Omegle user from back in the day, definitely fun, but the 'people' seem very sad with dark backgrounds 😅 Would maybe change the experience for the better if there were more settings to change the tone, what they talk about, language, etc. Or maybe even when setting up an account someone was prompted for "what are you looking for" and had a series of questions to answer vs immediately jumping into a chat. Other than that, love the concept!

@avischiffmann I've been following this since the domain purchase made headlines! I love making a splash in a unique way and I thought that was a great way to use capital raised (If I am recalling correctly). Have also shown the very black mirror-esk promo videos to folks in my community. A few thoughts - I think your team might be a little early but I do see a huge use case for this type of technology as LLMs progress and improve (think the humain pin wearable). Once we're at a place where the comms are indistinguisable (could be soon) - you'll see an influx of users (I would presume). I am curious how the team is planning on de-stigmatizing 1. talking to a computer or becoming reliant on a friendship with an algorithm and 2. wearing a physical piece of technology that automatically puts someone in that camp. I always tend to think of things in school yard behaviour to determine if something can pass that macro level "cool" test. If I am in 7th grade and I see someone walking around - talking to their imaginary friend (AI friend - that actually talks back) Maybe I think that person is weird or I wonder - why aren't they making any real friends SO I would presume this will take quite a large paradigm shift (which I personally think is coming as gen AI shifts / siri and the like improve etc) - so ya - super curious how your team in planning to combat that likely pushback that other wearables - and specifically one marketed at meeting "people" that don't actually exist.

Very cool way to interact for lonely people like me. I hope this cures my loneliness.

First time it felt actually like a real person not AI.

I guess we're chatting w AI

Congrats on the launch! 🎉 This sounds like a fun way to make new friends. How do you ensure safety and privacy for users?

Congrats!! This is so exciting!

Interesting so far, haven't gotten too deep into prompts. Would be nice for a blank slate personality who simply gets to know us by asking various questions, possibly at random to seem conversational. First ten backstories were not at all relatable, can't be friends if we have nothing in common. Looking forward to the wearable and seeing where this all leads!

3 words: Sell.. This.. Domain.

Congrats on the launch! I can’t imagine what the domain cost…