On Airchat

Musing #10 | Dissecting this iteration of asynchronous, short-form voice

For people in a tiny slice of the world and internet, there’s no greater canon event than the prospect of a new social app taking off. Sometimes there are multi-year droughts. In a plentiful year, there are one or two prospects that excite us. (And I wrote a stream of consciousness musing about the usual psychological journey.)

Arguably the first meaningful new prospect of this year is Airchat (version 2.0). It launched to the public 5 days ago, and it’s taken over at least the tech twitter hype train. I joined it a few hours after launch with a few hundred other people.

And since then, my mind has formed thoughts, some that I’ve decided to type out here. But this isn’t a comprehensive analysis or review or profile or whatever else will be written in spades in coming weeks. (And disclaimer, I’m not about to make comparisons to Clubhouse here.)

But if you’re another one of the few people amused by this little corner of the world, you might enjoy my off-the-cuff notes — on product, format…