Why Airchat Is the Next Big Social Media Platform, You’ll Be on Soon

Naval Ravikant and Brian Norgard built something special

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Social media is broken. We all know this. At this year’s Eth-Denver, I was introduced to the app that will fix it.

It has nothing to do with crypto (many apps don’t at Eth-Denver; heck, I saw an electric motorcycle launched), but this year’s event brought me face-to-face with Airchat, thanks to dev Arjun Khemani.

Arjun explained to me Naval Ravikant’s latest brainchild — a social media app called Airchat that captures your voice, morphs it into text, and broadcasts it, letting listeners grasp the human behind the screen.

Today was the day I would spill about my month with Airchat… until I realized every other major news outlet also did that today.

Life is suffering… when you procrastinate.

Image screen capture by the author

Now, I know what you’re thinking. It’s similar to what my petulant 16-year-old sister said when I told her about Airchat last month: “Wow, another random feature turned into a platform.”

In a way, she’s right!

Clubhouse was a group chat. Threads: Tweets but less toxic. X: Tweets but more toxic. TikTok: Short videos. Snapchat: Quirky picture sharing (& nudes)

So why do we need Airchat? Why a platform that does what Twitter does but adds voice? This is why:

Why Airchat is The Next Big Thing

Now, I’ve experimented with two iterations of Airchat.

It’s like they’re from different planets.

Version I had in March (left) that acted more like a podcast clip that anyone could comment on and the newest version (right) which is more like voice support + Threads

The magic of both Airchat versions is that there are no algorithms. That’s right — zero, zilch. And yet, giants like Bloomberg and Forbes barely mention it. Maybe they didn’t test it enough. It’s crazy to me!