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The Social App — Launch a paid E2EE subscription group chat within seconds
Launch a end-to-end encrypted, subscription-based Group Chat with a vanity URL. Monetize your followers or upgrade your groups from "paid newsletter" to the new 'Paid Group Chat'. Create a Group Chat, Set a Price, Claim a URL, and Done.
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@okhlopkov Thank you so much! A great question! Yes, Making Encryption elements open-source and engaging with the community at large to further scale it!
It looks like you have maid a paid version of free Signal.
How are you making sure it is more secure than WhatsApp?
Who is the hosting provider for the service?
Who is doing regular audits of your tool?
How do you make sure FBI, NSA or any other abbrev organization cannot contact you and get all the data? They used to bring down similar projects with a thick of a fingers.
What is the safety switch if someone gets to the unlocked device with this app?
@konrad_bujak Great question! If you check out the app or even our website, https://www.thesocialapp.net. You will see that the app is much more than just a group chat app. Subscription-based group chats is currently a big piece of a much larger messaging app. So the app is actually free to use with no such "pay for feature". Now, if you do decide to launch a subscription-based group chat. Then even at that point you, the creator of the group chat, have the ultimate power to set your "bottom line" to what is paid per month/user. So in essence, you are not paying or deducting anything from what you can possibly make.
But yes security is one of our primary core elements of the app. To start from the basics, all messages are E2EE. However, the app isn't just E2EE but it's been designed to that in the coming months we can encrypt the session overall. Something that is a common misconception of the other apps such as WhatsApp is that it is "Secure". What users get fooled by the whole notion that it is encrypted. But in reality, only the messages you send in "transit" is encrypted. Call it a Armor Car logic. So IF anyone were to intercept it, that is where the encryption plays an important role. But what if I were to ask you, what happens before and right after than? The messages are decrypted. What that means that it is fair game to said platform or even external spyware to read or even guess your messages based on the keystrokes. Now this can vary from platform to platform. But it has to occur to you that WhatsApp is owned by a Adverting mega giant that is known for "such practices" when it comes to data collection. We believe that such platforms that may not present direct ads may have a larger role in the Ad machine infrastructure such as assisting in building consumer profiles based on how you engage with such a "free app"?
We initially had created The Social App as a messenging app to combat such as early as 2019. That is why we have one of our flagship features which allows users to migrate over pretty quick. But as for security and data retention. We do not store anything on our services. No messages or content. So if the conversation ever comes to who can access it and not. It is a simple as "what data?".
We have multiple different layers of safety switch that is baked in the app. We plan on talking about it on our upcoming blog roll regarding our engineer roadmap. But if there is anything that you would belive that we should include, dop me a line at riqbal thesocialapp net.
There is a too many good feature here. Also, we can think a way for get rid of undesired message groups ✌️
@caner_lenger Not to be biased, but totally agree! We spent a little over 4 years building and planning + testing a core of features that can hopefully in any form push how we use "the messaging" app. So with Tombstone, you can Tombstone an entire group and you will not be notified nor even presented with new messages until it either expires after the "Set duration" or if you decide to remove it before then. In Pokemon terms, Its the next evolution of muting a message 👨🎓😁
Seems like a really interesting product for individual creators and small businesses. I'm curious about how it will flesh out in terms of competition with Whatsapp Business. Will surely keep an eye out for this product and reach out with feedback!
Congratulations on the launch! 🚀
@harsh_siriah1 Thank you so much! Yes please do give us feedback! We really do want to make improvements along the way. Our mission is to let individuals, creators, and small businesses launch their version of Netflix. I can tell you now that unlike the others out there at the present moment. We don't🚫 have FAQs! But instead, we have a video-based CSX which personalizes the communication between our team and our users!
@andrew_bi Great question and insight! We plan on making our platform more appealing by simplifying the process of group creation and anything we can do to enhance paid groups. Will, there be some users from other platforms coming over to us, yes and it's already happening with the fact we have had a fully comprehensive WhatsApp chat import tool since our early version back in 2020. 🥷
@andrew_bi we are already on it and our team is working on creating a bridge for the users interested in switching to move there chats to social from telegram. Also, The Social App removes that additional step of creating a bot which I hope our admins would really like
Hello ProductHunters! 👋
We're The Social App, the next-generation messaging, chat, texting, communicating, everything app. Our mission is to introduce an app that not only lets you message friends and family but also empowers, builds communities, and provides privacy as a core tenet. But today, we wanted to focus on something very simple but important, building exclusive communities.
Online community building began before the era of Facebook. But as social media and the tech space evolved over the course of time, content creation became the domain of a lucky few. The barriers to entry were high, and the monetary compensation was low. But with The Social App, anyone can create a Subscription-Based Group Chat and get paid for it.
The Social App is the first app of its kind to offer this type of feature. And we're not just talking about influencers or celebrities, but anyone with a following, whether it's 100 people or 1 million people. The Social App offers a unique and easy way for you to monetize your online presence and create an exclusive community for your fans, followers, or simply like-minded individuals.
The Social App plays a happy medium for influencers and brands looking to build high-value relationships. When other platforms started, brands would judge an influencer based on "how many likes" their product got on a hired influencer page. Later that practice would evolve using "discount codes" and other metrics to see how many of those likes converted into sales. Then added to that was the level of engagement. But even with engagement comes the primary issue of how much of that engagement is from real humans versus bots.
The Social App Subscription-based group chat reinvents the creator and brand relationship by:
🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 A platform where creators/influencers can get high engagement because all members of the group chat are paying members. We are estimating the average group chat will conservatively have anywhere from 75-95% engagement levels versus the typical 1-10% engagement on other platforms. This gives quality subscribers to the creator allowing them to repackage those stats as a premium offering back to brands. To brands, this ensures that the reach is genuine, unlike other platforms.
🏁🚫 🙅♂️The race to see who has 100,000-500,000+ followers on a page will become irrelevant, as KPIs that brands will look into would be amount of followers x content topics or niche within "reasonable human levels".
Subscription-based group chats empower not just content creators but also organizations, athletes, beauty, gamers, life coaches, investment/VC professionals, and many others! For organizations, it gives a place to communicate with members but also easily maintain membership dues. Instead of a "paid newsletter" engage with your paid followers and take your content to a new "intellectual high".
The Subscription-based group chat features for The Social App include:
The ability to create a vanity URL so group chat creators can easily onboard their potential subscribers by sharing it on their social platforms. Just as you will see with David's customized URL.
Ability to support over 💰💰100+ international currencies💰💰, so you can easily promote your group chats in different countries. The currencies will automatically update to a user's local currency.
🥷 Enable Ninja Mode- When you want to share something that should be shared for a limited time. This also prevents screenshots (for Android Only) and Notifications, if a Screenshot is taken (iOS).
🔀 Migrate from WhatsApp to The Social App. If you already have a group chat on WhatsApp. You can easily import the chat history from it.
🔒 All Group Chats are end-to-end encrypted using 256-bit encryption, so you can rest assured that your conversations are private and secure.
Users can also "selectively mute other participants using our Tombstone feature. One of the annoying things about large group chats is that there is always that "one person" who may personally annoy you. With our Tombstone 🪦 feature, you can selectively mute individuals in a group chat, allowing you to customize your group chat experience.
Since our initial launch of subscription-based group chats, we have seen athletes using the platform to share nutrition, workout, and skill tips with their followers. Subscription-based group chats on The Social App are being launched by notable current and former NFL players such as David Pindell, Former Quarterback for the Tampa bay buccaneers, and Minnesota Vikings, to share Quarterback tips 🏈🏈🏈🏈 (Sign up for this group at: https://groups.thesocialapp.net/...)🏈🏈🏈.
I would love to open up the floor and get any feedback or questions regarding The Social App, Subscription-Based group chats, or any other features. As you can see we are all about community. Feedback from the community is what will help us scale and build this into a platform that is all about scaling the community further.
We invite you to launch your own group chat today. The Social App can be used for launching a monetized group chat as well as personal chats. Give it a try! Let's together reinvent messaging as it should be! Available on both iOS and Android. 🤯
@alcaan Thank you Thank you! Yea we are using AI to help users migrate off of WhatsApp as just because old things withstand the test of time doesnt mean theyre in the best shape to use today 😉
@raakin Looks amazing. I’m trying to set up my first group and I’m running into an error. What’s the best way to get support?
@ramonwilliamson I apologize that you're facing this issue. Yeah we actually have a great in app CSX video base help. If you open up your Open the menu > Talk to Us. We are trying to approach assistance with a different approach. So please do take a look. Of not, let me know here and I can try to assist!
Congratulations on the debut, folks! It will be beneficial for small enterprises and startups that want to expand quickly. If you open-source the encryption components, the market will become more trustworthy.
@daksh_bhardwaj Thank you so much! Absolutely. We plan on scaling the security as a open community aspect to help not just businesses or startups but also individuals to thrive!
excited to see you finally launch with a great set of tools - solving a real pain point! Can't wait to test it out.
@joe_speiser1 Thank you so much! Yes learning from the best about addressing pain points 😉 Thank you so much for your support along the way!!
Hey 👋 There
I am super excited to be part of The Social App team and to share our vision of how the next generation chat app should be. Ome of the things I personally felt was there was always a lack of community in the other apps out there. The mission we are on is to not just connect users but also empower users. This is what has been a driving impact belief we have here and I myself personally wanted to share our collective mission!
Please do give us a shot and try out the app! When you are taking using the app or giving us feedback through our video base CSX. You will know that you are empowering not just a platform but also the users who are using it to bring change to their communities!
Thank you so much!
@kiranali1 LOVE IT! Make sure you share your Vanity URL here! I am sure the Product Hunt Community would love to get $200 round trip tickets to the Maldives like that one time 😉
@shrishty_pandey Thank you very much! Please do try us out as we would love to get your feedback!
@katie_schratz Thank you so much! I can only imagine Tombstone being abused in a work channel 😆
An awesome way to monetize one's social media presence, eliminating the middle man. Love it!
@biljana_arsic997 Thank you! Yes let's build exclusive global communities!
@hammad123 Thank you so much! Do give it a shot and send us some feedback on our video based CSX in the app!
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