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Amity Communities — Discuss trending topics, news, and live events in real-time
Amity is the first live communities platform that allows people around the world to come together to discover and discuss trending topics, breaking news, and live events — in real-time, for free.
With Amity, you can join any community instantly or create your own in 60 seconds.
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Thanks @weirdowizard. We’re excited to see what people do with the platform, too!
Congrats on the launch, looks interesting indeed. Besides the obvious Privacy concerns, what's the benefit of using Amity over Facebook Groups? Would love to be convinced that it can bring the same/better engagement levels!
Cheers!
Thanks @irhymeth! It's all real-time.
You can customize your community — choose live chat only, posts only, or both.
You can add customizations, like countdown timers, to the top of your community.
If you're a community admin, you can pin posts and send a push notification to reach your entire audience anytime you want. This helps solve some of the fundamental reach problems people are having on traditional social networks like Facebook.
@johnnychengx Thanks for the response. While all those sound like awesome features, as far as engagement is concerned, do you think an Amity community will be able to drive the kind of engagement a Facebook group does. The biggest advantage of a group is that people need not download an app or sign up to a new service to join a community. How does Amity plan to combat that issue? I'd love to understand if Amity can become a replacement for Facebook communities as I spend a lot of time on those and the value is tremendous.
@irhymeth I think FB groups will have their place and will be good for the use cases it's made for. Amity doesn't need to replace everything. We'll look to be great for real-time events, live sports, content creators, trending discussions etc — and for those who want a new platform, a fresh start.
Congrats on the launch @johnnychengx! Amity looks and feels like a very polished product. I had a chance to play around a bit and have a few questions:
1. Can you view live communities on mobile browser? When i share this link https://amity.io/1vibe with people when they click "View Community" the page just re-loads and nothing changes.
2. Can you embed live community chat directly on your website?
3. Can you create private communities (unlisted on the app, the only way to discover is if someone sent you an invite link)?
Im curious to learn more about why you've chosen to bundle up all the communities under one platform. As a community builder, I only want to point my users to my own community. I would want to have a custom domain such as "community.mydomain.com" with my own branding etc. When you involve other communities in the experience, things can get messy and begin to feel a lot like Facebook all over again.
Thanks @madebyildi!
1. The community link should direct users to the community inside the app since it has the optimized experience — or the App Store if they don't have the app. We might look at showing content previews on the mobile browser later.
2. Not yet, but it's on our roadmap to build embedded live chat for webpages :)
3. Coming soon too! A lot of people are excited about secret/exclusive communities and we're looking forward to bring out this feature.
Why we created Amity as a communities network: We wanted to give anyone the power to tap a button to instantly access any conversation or community they're interested in around the world, on-demand. That's the magic we wanted to create for people.
@johnnychengx thanks for the reply. It will be interesting to see how you and the team grow the network.
I think today if someone wanted to create/join a community, there are many platforms that offer different options (facebook, slack, reddit, discord, telegram, whatsapp etc). I really like your focus on live/on-demand conversations and would encourage you to further explore this area. Communities that already exists elsewhere may or may not switch over to Amity, it depends on which features suit their needs the most. However I think for those of us who want a new platform, a fresh start, we are looking to gain full control (or as much as possible) of our community/data. I continue to hear from friends who manage communities or are in the process of launching new ones, that they want to customize/own the full experience. The idea of creating a community under a network of other communities doesn't excite anymore, it doesn't sound exclusive, or unique, its being offered by many other platforms. But there is always room for improvement however and thats why i'm excited to see how Amity will progress from here. The "Free Bitcoin Race" is a cool offer btw, i'm keen to see what type of engagement it sparks.
@madebyildi thanks for the thoughtful perspective. Yes, we're looking forward to building the best platform we can for community creators and members!
This is the next big platform, that's for sure.
Pros:Excellent UI
Cons:Just waiting for more communities to launch.
Co-founder and CEO of Amity here. Thanks @chrismessina for hunting us!
Today, we're excited to launch Amity Communities, and share it with the Product Hunt community.
Amity is a live communities platform that allows people around the world to come together to discover and discuss trending topics, breaking news, and live events — in real-time, for free.
Join any community instantly or create your own in 60 seconds.
We created Amity to give community creators back the power and control they’ve been waiting for.
If you want to create an Amity community:
1. Download the app: https://amity.io/download
2. Create a community (claim your link)
3. Customize your community (choose live chat, posts, or both)
4. Share your link or QR code on social and with friends
5. Start interacting with live chat, posts, and comment threads.
6. Add countdown timers.
7. Pin posts and send push notifications to all your members anytime.
P.S. Here's a Medium article on the story of Amity Communities:
https://medium.com/@amityapp/int...
Love this app. Thanks for creating it! I hope it becomes a big success. I just created a community called Daughters of Addiction for daughters who've had parents struggling with addiction. I love the feature to add live chats because for younger girls that might want to talk to someone and ask for advice, this is perfect. Thanks again and best of luck!
PS: Any plans of bringing this to Web?
like the idea! curious how long have you been working on this?
Also, how is this different than slack or FB groups (I don't use FB, but I know someone might ask you lol)
@edisonjoao6871 We started development on the live communities part of our app at the start of the year.
Slack is made for private teams of people who already know each other, rather than for public communities. Every time you join a new Slack group, you have to create a whole new account.
Facebook Groups are asynchronous, while Amity Communities is synchronous (real-time). On Amity, people can interact with live chat as well as post threads. Amity admins can send push notifications, while FB groups have to compete with the feed.
@edisonjoao6871 @johnnychengx Don't mean to butt in but I'm part of several Slack groups which are built as communities around a topic and people don't really know each other from before.
@edisonjoao6871 @irhymeth Yep, not saying that people don't or can't use Slack for that purpose. Just saying that it was more designed for teams and work.
Congrats on the launch @johnnychengx product feels polished and slick as always - Also commend you guys on keeping the user experience simple, keen to see what kind of creative ways people come up with for using it!
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