Clubhouse lost 93% of users from peak. WhatsApp sends 7 billion voice messages daily - but those are DMs, not feeds.
The math doesn't work: reading is 50-80% faster than listening. You can skim 50 text posts in 100 seconds. 50 voice posts? 15 minutes.
Voice works async 1-to-1. You built Twitter where every tweet is a 30-second voicemail nobody has time to listen to.
The transcription proves it - users will read, not listen. Which makes this "text feed with worse UX"
> Why this exists: AI-generated content is drowning social media.
> Real-time transcription
... So you want to filter out AI content by requiring users to produce audio (not really any harder for AI than text), and you add AI content afterward (the transcriptions) anyway?
I really think you should think this through more.
The "authenticity" problem is fundamentally about how users discover each other. You get flooded with AI slop because the algorithm is pushing it in front of you. And that algorithm is easily gamed, and all the existing competitors are financially incentivized to implement such an algorithm and not care about the slop.
Also, I looked at the page source and it gives a strong impression that you are using AI to code the project and also that your client fundamentally works by querying an LLM on the server. It really doesn't convey the attitude supposedly motivating the project.
Nice tech demo though, I guess.
I feel like you are making your users jump through hoops to do bot and slop detection, when you ought to be investing in technology to do the same. Here is a focusing question: would you still demand audio recordings if you had that technology?
Maybe you will court an interesting set of users when you do this? I just know I will not be one of them; ain't got time for that. Good luck.
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Sorry, but I have to pass.