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1mo ago

I built a full social app end to end as a solo founder — AMA

Hi Product Hunt

I m Carter, the solo founder and maker of Otiumz.

Over the past two years, I ve designed, built, and released the product end to end on iOS and Android. It includes multiple private and public profiles, Private and Public Moments, discovery, messaging, voice and video calls, and personalized AI that supports conversation starters, reply suggestions, and optional auto-replies.

The idea came from a problem I experienced personally. After moving from China to the U.S., I saw how differently we communicate with family, close friends, professional connections, and people we re just getting to know yet most social apps expect one profile to represent all of it. As a non-native English speaker, I also know how easy it is to overthink a message or let a conversation fade.

Ask me anything about:

  • Building a complex consumer mobile app as a solo technical founder

  • Designing multiple private and public profiles under one account

  • Building messaging and real-time voice and video calls

  • Designing AI to support human conversations rather than replace them

  • Creating a multilingual social experience

  • The product and engineering mistakes I ve made along the way

  • Preparing my first Product Hunt launch

I ll answer every question I can over the next 24 hours. I won t share proprietary AI model or provider details, but I m happy to discuss product decisions, privacy principles, architecture at a high level, and what I ve learned from building Otiumz.

Otiumz launches on Product Hunt this Saturday. Fire away!

1mo ago

Multiple profiles in one social app: useful or too much work?

Most social apps are built around one primary profile, even though we communicate differently with close friends, professional connections, and people we re just getting to know.

I m building Otiumz around a different model: one account with multiple private and public profiles, which we call subaccounts. The idea is to give different parts of your social life their own profile and audience without making you juggle separate apps or logins.

28d ago

Otiumz - AI-powered social app for every side of you

Otiumz is an AI-powered social app for every side of you. Unlike traditional social apps built around one polished identity, it lets you create multiple profiles (subaccounts) under one account, connect publicly or within private circles, share Moments, discover people, chat, and make voice or video calls. Create and train multiple Digital Selves and AI Characters, then choose one to power conversation starters, personalized reply suggestions, and optional auto-replies while you’re away.