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Rodeo — Jump in and out of conversations with friends
Rodeo is the easiest way to talk to your friends, and their friends. Simply hop on the app, start a room & your friends will know you’re free to talk.
Friends of the friends you’re talking to can join too, an easy way to meet new friends!
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I'm one of the early testers of Rodeo. It really changed the way I look at these audio chats. It is way more personal than messaging and less intens compared to having a video call.
It feels like you can be in a live podcast, raise your hand and jump in the conversation. Really refreshing! You should definitely try it out.
love rodeo! i spent quite a lot of time chatting on there. on night literally until 4am.
its an amazing tool to casually speak to internet friends especially. definitely deepened many friendships already via Rodeo :)
So easy to interact with your friends and family. Notifications are awesome and i think this is what makes the app so great. I have a group with my parents and my sister and its easy for all of us to talk more often.
I've been using Rodeo for a couple of months now and it's honestly been one of the best apps I've used for casual chats with friends.
We all plan calls and virtual catch-up's with friends over WhatsApp, Zoom etc. but it always feels like such an effort and something you need to heavily plan, which is never something you want to feel when you just want to hang out with friends.
Rodeo totally addresses this by having unobtrusive notifications to let you know when your friends are around to chat. Also, the ability to form groups of friends and communities on Rodeo is brilliant, also allowing you to schedule conversations, topics or gaming sessions where your friends can opt-in to be notified when conversations are starting.
Massive fan of Rodeo and all that @midaskwant is doing with it, glad to see it go live today 🥳
@calum Thanks for hunting us Calum! And of course, thanks for being such a lovely member of our early community.
With Rodeo we've been trying for almost a year now to make talking to your friends as lightweight and accessible as possible. When we started thinking about the audio space, it felt like every possible interaction through voice (calls, Zoom links, hangouts, etc) require you to *ask* for someone's time. That's a big barrier to talk in our opinion.
On Rodeo, we reverse that. Instead of asking for someone's time, we designed Rodeo to allow you to express when *you are free*. Through nuanced features: "hey!" button, the activity list, but most importantly the notification to friends when you're in the app, we hope to make it easier to capture mutual availability. Which in turn, gives us those casual and unexpected fun chats.
With a strong focus on safety and moderation, we have done two things:
1.) A default "All Friends" group where friends-of-friends can join in when you're talking, but only listen unless they're invited up.
2.) with Private Groups, nobody can join in on a conversation unless they're a member of that group.
Happy to go into any further detail and thanks for checking it out!
(also big shoutout to @pwign for the gif/animation!)
Love Rodeo. Recently removed CH for a few reasons and replaced it on my dock with Rodeo, whilst I like drop in audio, I appreciate the ease of use regarding moderation in private groups.
Love Rodeo! We've been using it for all of our community group virtual gatherings at CreateRemote. It's fast, simple, and easy to onboard new folks. Similar to Clubhouse but with a focus on group based communities and open for anyone to join. 🤩
Super excited to see all the fun ways people use this product!
I'm just now trying Rodeo... being an ol-school phone user - I'm wondering if I need to "hang-up" the Rodeo app? Does it use power/network while I'm on the app?
Summer Bod 2020