cackles — your crew is one tap away
discord is for gamers. this is for your crew.
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discord is for gamers. this is for your crew.
16 followers
your crew is scattered across discord, imessage, whatsapp. nobody wants to schedule a call. cackles fixes that — open the app, see who's around, tap to talk. 🎙️ drop-in audio rooms — vibe, talk, or just listen 🌀 10-sec video portals — broadcast moments instantly 💬 bubbles — your crew's home base with multiple rooms 🎮 games, music, soundboard — actually hang out 💰 creators earn 90% from paid bubble subscriptions free. cackles infinity ($6.99/mo) unlocks portals, voice effects, games & more
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hey PH 👋 i'm jeff aka cackles. i built cackles by myself and i want to tell you why.
about a year ago i realized: i have great friends and i almost never talk to them. not because i don't want to — because the friction is insane.
my college crew is on discord. my work friends are in imessage threads. my fantasy football league uses whatsapp for some reason. my childhood friends? scattered across all of them. nobody's in the same place.
and "let's hop on a call" never happens. you know this. you've sent that text. nobody replied.
so i started building cackles. the idea was stupid simple: *open the app, see who's around, tap to talk.* that's it. no scheduling. no "are you free at 7?" no joining a server with 10,000 strangers to find 3 people you actually like.
the core is live audio rooms — drop in, listen, talk, leave whenever. but the feature i'm most proud of is *portals*: you open a 10-second live video portal that broadcasts to all your friends. you're at a concert? open a portal. your dog is doing something hilarious? portal. it's this tiny window into someone's moment that makes you feel genuinely connected.
we also have bubbles (persistent group spaces), games, listening parties, DMs — all the stuff that makes hanging out fun and not just... talking.
oh and creators can actually make money here. set up a paid bubble, pick your subscription tiers ($0.99–$49.99/mo), connect stripe, and you keep 90% of every subscription. no platform taking 50%. no waiting years for monetization features. it's built in from day one.
*why now?* honestly, the timing is wild. this week there's a massive wave of people leaving discord over age verification and the palantir partnership. people are actively looking for something better. and i think "better" doesn't mean another massive platform — it means something small, private, and built for the people you actually care about.
cackles is free. it's on iOS. i'm a solo founder so every piece of feedback hits my inbox directly.
if your friend group is scattered across 5 apps and you're tired of it — this is what i built for you.
would love to hear what you think. ask me anything 🙏
— jeff aka cackles
🔗 [cackles.club]
📱 [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cackles-chat-better/id6753322017]
i've spent years on social audio apps, even as they faded in popularity - but they do serve a purpose and are unique ways to interact -- and i think cackles app is really the paragon of this approach. It's a a clever set of improvements on something like Clubhouse, which is mired to bad decisions. Cackles is a blast. I'm a fan.
Ok well our group chat loves it. We have about 30 in our chat who use it daily now and the group much more active here, discord was tough for a lot of reasons but we like this one cause it literally feels like extension of our group chat into like a third space with fun creative features. Definitely will elevate your chats vibes weather have a group or need to find one.
we really need a place like this on the internet
my socials are slop, bots in the replies, everyone hiding in group chats waiting for me to reply, and all i want is to hang out with my friends and laugh
this app does that
honestly, feels like the future
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when cackles is coming on android ??