Ali Shah

Thank you Robert for sparking the conversation and also for recording that cameo with Mr. Satoshi... what a legend! But jokes aside, we're stoked and super excited to finally share what we've been working on for the past year! :) TapeReal is a fun social hub for sharing your audio or video creations (like YouTube) and also a marketplace for selling 'a la carte' access to your EXCLUSIVES...

Social audio listeners may transition back to the car, assuming we return to a post-covid, daily commute world. But the post-covid reality is persisting, and it's likely going to stay here a while IMHO. That being said, this space is also becoming saturated fast... Clubhouse, Spaces, Upstream, and today, Spotify announced its own clubhouse-style live audio... apparently Facebook is also working...

Preparing our launch on PH and doing some copywriting :)

Last week I: - Balanced my books (accounting work) - Launched a few social/search campaigns - Did some ASO testing for the app - Prep work for our upcoming PH launch

The main hero image appears blurry on my screen. Make sure your images are optimized and not pixelated. Also, I would add a header about what it is that you actually do... when you land on the page, all you see is the word Education, Entertainment, a price, some classes, and the languages it's available in. Try watching some YouTube videos on "Value Proposation" development and Copywriting. You...

The best tool for virtual team building is to not have them. Talk to your team, support them, then just give them time away to do what they choose.

What if you consider doing minimal/no work to be very valuable?

Keep telling yourself that you deserve it. If you're not taking care of your self, how can you take care of your family, work, side projects? The best version of you will yield the best output of you into the World.

Just passed the 2 year milestone... incorporated in Nov '18, worked on designs Jan-Mar, started development Apr '19, launched Alpha Aug'19, and we've been iterating since. 2020 was a challenging year with a few setbacks, but now we're gearing up for a massive update in Mar '21. We're not profitable, but generating some early revenue.

I've been using TapeReal.com for documenting goals and journaling my thoughts through audio and video. I find it easier than writing and it's helpful from a mental health perspective where I can brain-dump my thoughts, challenges, wins, etc.

Hey Hunters & Makers! Ali here, Founder of TapeReal.com (formerly Tapebook). Some background about our product journey... we originally launched on PH last summer as Tapebook (a social micro-podcasting network). But with our community's feedback, we significantly evolved the app and realized we were building a new #SocialReality network along the way. As a result, our brand needed to...

Figma is beautiful and easy to use. We started building Tapebook on Sketch, but ended up transitioning to Figma. Now there's no turning back! :)

We're not the Uber of anything lol... I hate using these analogies, but what Twitter did to blogging, with micro-blogging, we're doing to podcasting, with micro-podcasting. Instagram's updates are pictures, Tapebook's updates are conversations. Our mission is to become the primary social network for authentic, genuine social conversations. We believe the true promise of social media can only be...

We built Tapebook out of our garage with a remotely distributed team. It's been a long time coming, but Apple finally approved our app on the App Store. I hope you'll check us out! If you download the app and follow me on Tapebook, we can also record a tape together! My username is @ali - thank you!!