Random Conversations for Google Home

Start conversations with random people through Google Home

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Start conversations with random people through Google Home

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Random Conversations for Google Home

Maker

Hello, everyone! Jordan and I created this product to help people start random conversations over Google Home. As far as we know, it is currently the only app that allows two Google Homes to communicate to each other. Just say: "OK, Google. Open Random Conversations", and it will guide you through the experience from there. We'd love to hear your feedback!

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9yr ago

Product Hunt

Ha! Like Omegle for voice. How does it match people, @john_rea? I'll give this a try tonight when I'm back home.

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9yr ago

Random Conversations for Google Home

Maker

@rrhoover The matching is totally random within the queue of people who are starting new conversations. We also think there are some cool things we could do to make it more location-based as we roll out updates. Looking forward to your thoughts!

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9yr ago

is this a real product? do you have a video or something that shows this off? the website doesn't have anything on it...

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9yr ago

Random Conversations for Google Home

Maker

@tombielecki Yes, it is a real product. We haven't had a chance to film anything as we both have day jobs that are our priorities. Good idea, though.

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9yr ago

Hocus Focus

@john_rea Thats very cool. How do you connect random users though? You should have at least 2 users at a particular instance of time to connect them right ?

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9yr ago

Clyp

Maker

@shivkanthb it's not realtime, you leave messages for each other.

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9yr ago

@john_rea cool stuff: ) we're planning to integrate our app to google home. Our build isn't approved yet. I would like to learn from you more about the app submission process.

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9yr ago

Random Conversations for Google Home

Maker

@radha_anu Thanks! The GH paradigm definitely has its limits currently, which I think you did a great job of summarizing in your other comment. They trickle into the product as it stands, but we are hopeful Google loosens them as the platform progresses. As far as the submission process, we spent a lot of time coming up with the name for our action, as we didn't want Google to summarily reject us based on that. Besides that, we just read and reread their guidelines until we felt comfortable submitting. Shoot me an email at contact@random-conversations.com if you have any other questions, and I'd be more than happy to provide more detail.

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9yr ago

@john_rea thanks. I'll reach out to you soon. 👍

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9yr ago

Following was my experience with random conversation 1/ Ok, Google 2/ Open Random conversation(RC) 3/ [RC provides 2 choices - find a new penpal or check for new messages] 4/ I say - Find a new penpal, it gives me an option to leave a message to new penpal while it finds one. 5/ I leave the message and after some time go back to step 1. At step 3, I have to choose ‘check for new message’ 6/ Cycle repeats It is cool but the experience is more like initial web 1.0 unlike mobile experience we're used to. RC didn't tell me upfront I've an "unheard" message. I had to go thru same steps to check and respond to messages. In mobile world, we are used to getting notified while we are waiting for a response. I see the steps required to send and retrieve messages to be a barrier to experience. However Google home paradigm is different from mobile (as of now) I talk to google assistant only when I need. I still can’t define ‘hooks’ (like notifications, reminders etc) when something happens.

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9yr ago

Pinguin 2.0

I love the idea of talking to strangers it's why we created our app. I recommend the book "When Strangers Meet: How people you don't know can transform you" by: @kiostark. Take a look at our app too! https://www.producthunt.com/post...

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