Bonobo Gong: The story of a fun side project
Last year, we launched with two friends an app called Bonobo Gong.
The concept is really simple: when something you love happens, you simply press a gong on the app and then all your friends receive the big sound of a gong on their phone. Pretty fun! (and annoying for your friends)
We launched the app on both Android and iOS, the goal was mostly to have fun with our friends. We wanted a way to mass-send a gong to all our friend. It’s like Yo, but you don’t choose who you are sending the gong to.
The launch
The first week we launched Bonobo Gong, someone posted us on Product Hunt! Unfortunately, the product stayed on the “upcoming” page and never went on the front page.
6 months after
Today, we have 486 users on the app who sent more than 8 000 gongs in just 6 months!
Bonobo Gong LeaderBoard
Here are the top 50 Bonobo Gong users, ordered by the number of gongs sent, with the username and the number of gongs sent for each user!
- matthias 568
- Goldenpipaul 412
- Moonlite 293
- Theo 170
- Lewis44 155
- Stef 149
- karateswagg22 146
- berzerk06 126
- toto 124
- Josiane 124
- Vouvouch 121
- paul-sbs 114
- Thib 113
- Pixout 113
- Anka 112
- Klap 111
- Sophia Leila 108
- Yann 106
- Vincent 106
- Back 102
- Fleufi 101
- diplodocus 94
- bigboobs 92
- SuperBouéeCanard 86
- Bobo 79
- Florimondd 72
- flan 71
- Dey 70
- Franz 68
- Urtimal 67
- Mattest411 66
- Morespio 66
- Seb 65
- Maxpine 65
- jcome 63
- Niks.kohli007 62
- Cerichar 62
- Ali 61
- Courouve5 57
- Joris.Vissaguet 56
- bonnasse 56
- CLEMENTDUC 55
- Sanglier 53
- solivier 50
- Xixili 50
- LeakSmey 50
- Ju’ 49
- Riton 49
- Julie 46
- leblanko 46
To conclude
Bonobo Gong is still running, and we are still using it with our friends but we are all busy with others projects and are no longer working on it.
Otherwise, it was a great experience to build this MVP in a couple of days, and publish it “in the real world”! And the app was pretty fun to use ;)
This post was written by Pierre-Gilles Leymarie. Pierre-Gilles founded the Gladys Project, an open-source home automation assistant who can help you in your everyday life based on a Raspberry Pi and some Arduino ( like a kind of Jarvis ). Don’t hesitate to visit our website at http://gladysproject.com, we would love to hear your feedback!
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