Glimpse

2 minute, 1-on-1, video conversations with your friends

3 followers

2 minute, 1-on-1, video conversations with your friends

3 followers

An app for 2 minute, one-on-one, video chats with your friends (and friends of friends). 🥳 Catch up with people that matter most to you, and meet people that matter to them. Anytime, anywhere. Update June 28: Now available on web at app.joinglimpse.com

Launch tags:Android•iOS•Web App

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Finch

This is amazing! Great job, Helena, Brian and Mary! I’ve “glimpsed" a couple times and I’m hooked already! Investing an entire hour when a friend calls is a lot, so when I’m busy I don’t pick up 😐 🙃. That’s led to a few months of no contact…totally on me. But if my friends had sent me a “glimpse” instead, and I knew the call would be two minutes, I would be SO down to take a break from my work. Can’t wait to keep using it and see how it evolves!

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6yr ago

twine

Maker

@karthik_bhaskara Thank you!! So excited to have you as an early user :)

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6yr ago

I really love this app - not many apps allow for both large group conversations, face to face convo’s, AND a way to meet new people. This app helped me better stay in touch with friends when school was cancelled indefinitely due to corona virus. I’m excited that many more of my friends have started to join the app too!!

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6yr ago

twine

Maker

@anna_darwish aww thank you for the kind words!! The virus is unfortunate, and will mean a rise in a lot of new video products. Especially when thinking about "re-creating a dorm experience"

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6yr ago

Glimpse looks super dope, I've heard great things from a few friends who've tried it out on iOS. With school pretty much cancelled now I can totally see how it'd be really useful for my friends / student groups as we try to stay in touch... Can't wait for the Android launch!

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6yr ago

twine

Maker

@jeremy_chen3 Thanks Jeremy! We're looking forward to launching Android ASAP and enabling you to keep your friends close even when you're far away!

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6yr ago

twine

Maker

@jeremy_chen3 We just got our early version for Android launched! Can't wait to hear your thoughts! https://bit.ly/glimpseandroid

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6yr ago

This is legit. I’m usually bouncing all over the US and a few other countries like Iceland and Taiwan, so it’s hard for me to really focus on meeting people. After all, who wants to talk about basketball and tech and movies for 6 hours in a plane? But with Glimpse, I’m able to have quick conversations with people who might actually enjoy that, maybe even tell a joke to brighten their day for 120 seconds!

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6yr ago

The Met

Downloaded, but just experienced something that’s happened before on PH. The newsletter from @rrhoover and team presents an app or tool in a way that sounds right up my alley. In this case that Glimpse is about interacting with your friends and not strangers. But when you go directly to the App Store, everything from the tagline to the description doesn’t quite match my expectations. I sent the newsletter to a couple of folks and one of them went to the App Store and agreed with me about the mismatch. If I were an app maker, I’d follow the cues and wording in that PH’s newsletter. 😊 Good luck and look forward to using Glimpse.

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6yr ago

twine

Maker

@sree Hey Sree! So sorry about any confusion. The app is totally about interacting with your friends. We may have some lagging copy edits to make, but that is something we found fundamental in building the app. We will investigate and make sure everything is updated!!

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6yr ago

The Met

@helenamerk Thanks for your thoughtful note. Just take a look at what the description says in the PH newsletter.

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6yr ago

twine

Maker

@sree When I replied earlier I was actually unaware that we had been featured!! I would have expected they notify makers but I guess they don't... We, as makers, had no say over what was in that newsletter.

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6yr ago

Love this concept - would it be possible though to choose the length of time? For example I'm thinking of using this for a community event but I'd like to potentially increase the time to 5 min per pair

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6yr ago

twine

Maker

Thanks Kat 💙!! Hi PH community! I’m Helena 👋, one of the Glimpse founders I dropped out of Duke CS to build a startup, and this is my first time posting a product on Product Hunt!! We are beyond excited to share what we’ve been working on -- but also the story of how we got Glimpse built in 7 days: Version 0: We held up phones and matched people we knew over video chat, cutting them off at 2 minutes. People loved it. 🤩 Version 0.5: For some reason we decided people would want to do this with strangers. We built an app in 3 days, and got a hard no from Apple’s app review. We had built Chatroulette. Literally my greatest fear. 🙅‍♀️😳 We thought about it. What people loved about V0 was that they knew the people they were matched with would be either a friend, or a friend of a friend. It was the right kind of adrenaline rush. Version 1: We built for another 4 days, and launched Glimpse with friends. Create room. Add friends. Friends add friends. ⇒ This is the product we are excited to share with you today. There is still loads of work to do. But would love for you to try it out and let us know what direction to take! 🥳 Helena, co-founder

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6yr ago

@helenamerk drop out gang! "Dropped out of school now we dumb rich" - Drake Love Glimpse and the idea!

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6yr ago

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