Tunity is a free app that allows users to sync their mobile devices with low volume and/or silent TVs in order to live stream the audio directly to their phones!
@abe_storey It solves a need, but I also agree its hard to look beyond the distributionof copyrighted audio streams for the enrichment of the app maker
@abe_storey@dbl Abe and Blake, we actually serve the content creators themselves by enhancing their product - increasing engagement, data, etc. We are in contact with all the networks we have and discussed all the aspects with them pre launch
@rahulmfg all the user has to do it scan the TV (it takes one second). We then detect the channel and the timing and stream the audio...complicated technology - easy use. Looking forward to hearing what you think!
I've been testing Tunity for a bit and thought it was so cool that I put a calendar reminder to post it on @producthunt today, but apparently I'm a day late to the party (you all are quick!). One thing I found surprising was that Tunity was able to capture mindshare for what is for me an infrequent behavior. @jasonlbaptiste talks about every app getting one "verb". For Tunity, that verb is to "hear" a muted TV, which is not a daily activity. However, Tunity does such a surprisingly good job that the next time I need to hear a muted TV, I immediately open it up, even if it's a month later. It's hard to imagine deleting this app, and the tech is more than sufficiently good -- it's surprisingly excellent, which I suspect matters when you may only get to surprise and delight people infrequently.
To me, this is a good example where the MVP needs to be fairly built out. Perhaps viability = delight * frequency. The less frequent, the more delightful/memorable the user experience needs to be in order to reasonably test user behavior.
@producthunt@jasonlbaptiste@MattHartman Matt, I think you captured the biggest dilemma we had - perfectly. It was a constant tension for us between the "go out fast - get the input" and "get the input on the right product/experience". I hope we waited enough.
One more aspect to it though, is - the more users scan -> the more data we have and we leverage that data EVERY DAY to improve the algorithms for detection and synchronization.
Hi all, happy to be here again (thanks @shane_112).
We got good traction after releasing mid December (>40K downloads w/o marketing or PR). Used a lot of the feedback we got here and from our users to work on the product - another big UI change soon...added channels and thanks to thousands of scans every day were able to educate our algorithms (they are still at school...but already doing calculus ;)...). We also got great feedback from Networks and looking forward to announce something soon...
Our focus now is on making sure the product is (as my very good friend @MattHartman likes to say) Delightful and that it has all the important features that will make use and sharing easier. Would be great to get feedback from the great minds here re that.
Thanks again everyone - Product Hunt is AWESOME!!!
BTW, did you check out the Hoverboard here: http://bit.ly/1x4lGi4 ? Hope they come up with something soon (my birthdate is in October...)
Really clever. This would be a great companion at the gym to listen to muted TV's in front of rows of elliptical machines.
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This could come in really handy with Muted TVs at airports or sports bars.
This is also makes a lot of sense when you're watching TV late at night and you don't want to wake anyone up. Great Idea.
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