One such video was also reposted to the new Made with Friends TikTok profile which teases the app as “coming soon.” We noticed TTYL has already begun to market the new app through TikTok influencers as there are posts that show Made With Friends in action, despite its preorder status. This multi-app business model has also been adopted by another consumer social app maker, 9count, which recently raised new funding as both Wink and its Gen Z dating app Summer took off. Before delivering a hit with Poparazzi, the company had developed nearly a dozen other apps, including OMG, CampusFM, TYPO, Lynx, Yearbook 2020 as well as TTYL, the audio social network and Clubhouse rival the company’s name references.Īs TTYL co-founder Alex Ma explained earlier this summer, most social networking apps fail and the best thing to do is to keep building and experimenting until one works. This would not be the first time the team at TTYL experimented with a new social networking concept.
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Poparazzi hits 5M+ downloads a year after launch, confirms its $15M Series A However, based on some earlier screenshots of the new app, it does appear the Q&A responses in Made With Friends could be designed for social sharing to other platforms, like Instagram. But in the case of Made With Friends, users aren’t posting questions anonymously, nor is the app itself delivering fake questions to create engagement as the anonymous Q&A apps had been doing (at least, until Apple’s App Review team caught on and requested changes to be made). On those apps, users receive questions in an inbox that they can answer and share to their social profiles or Stories elsewhere. This Poparazzi spin-off seems partly inspired by today’s popular Q&A apps, like Sendit or NGL, which tie into other social networks, like Snapchat and Instagram. Made With Friends, meanwhile, expands on that concept by asking users to post all sorts of things to their friends’ profiles - including text-based content like answers to questions or prompts, as well as photos and videos.
Poparazzi had encouraged friends to post photos to each others’ social networking profiles as if they were their friends’ “paparazzi” - hence the name. The app offers a twist on Poparazzi’s original concept of social networking profiles crafted by a user’s friends, instead of by the users themselves, but adds support for other types of content.
A new listing in the App Store under the developer’s account, TTYL, is teasing a pre-release app called Made With Friends.
The company behind last summer’s hot social app Poparazzi appears to be readying a round two following its $15 million Series A announced in June.
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