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p/bonfire-3The new group video chat app from Facebook 🔥
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Matt Navarra

Bonfire - The new group video chat app from Facebook 🔥

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Bonfire is the long-rumored Houseparty competitor for Facebook. It's a group video chat app that lets you hang out with your best friends and meet new ones. Open the app to start video chatting instantly.

It's currently only available in the Danish App Store.

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Ryan Hoover
A few months ago The Verge's @caseynewton spilled the beans on Facebook's Houseparty competitor. Today, @mattnavarra discovered Bonfire in the Danish App Store. While Facebook's essentially added the same functionality to Messenger, it makes sense to create a separate app to create its own notification system and social graph. I'm curious to hear Houseparty @benrbn's thoughts on this. EDIT: We wrote about Bonfire in today's @ProductHunt Daily. Get it while it's hot! 📰
Roy Hermann Ueland
First Twitter with Meerkat competitor Periscope, now Facebook with Houseparty competitor Bonfire. I don't think he is too thrilled ;)
Saif Al Falah
@roy_hermann_ueland @rrhoover Seriously, Ben can't catch a break. Things were different with Meerkat. I hope with Houseparty, he is able to compete with Facebook.
Renz Bernardo
@roy_hermann_ueland yeah, i feel bad for him but at the same time i feel really proud. shouldn't these companies (fb, twitter) hire him and his team instead? Look at those promising products theyve released recently, what more can they do with a bunch of cash in hand
David Yo
@roy_hermann_ueland @ohitsmerenz if he can't make 52M work then consider it another failure. the reality is facebook will clone anything in the social space so everyone must be prepared for the inevitable
Maximiliaan Van Kuyk
@roy_hermann_ueland @ohitsmerenz @gradx Yea it kind of a sad reality. I wonder if there is a play one could make to avoid this. Do you think Facebook considered acquihire before blatant copy?
Matt Navarra
Hunter
Unearthed on the Danish App Store. Hard to download if not in Denmark... but not impossible ;)
Pete Lacey
@mattnavarra Finally we get something first.
Mike Coutermarsh
@mattnavarra Wow. The screenshots look almost identical to houseparty. They aren't even being sly about this one.
Guillaume Flandre
I always have mixed feelings about such obvious copies of competitors (e.g. Instagram Stories). - On one side, I'm outraged that such Big Cos copy so openly smaller startups - On a more neutral standpoint, I acknowledge the fact that they have the right to do it - But then as a user, I might find this version even better than the original and be delighted by it
Steven Rueter
Houseparty by Facebook
Hayden Evans
Facebook is completely out of new ideas.
Carlos Pacheco
Facebook: Masters at going where the puck has been...
Matt Navarra
Hunter
Psst! 😉 How to download Facebook’s unreleased Bonfire video chat app today: https://thenextweb.com/apps/2017...
Evan Thomas Paul
I think this has potentially big B2B implications. If they integrate video chat into their Workplace product, then we could see big impacts upon GoToMeeting, Blue Jeans, Skype, etc. All of those products have intermittent performance issues and aren't well integrated into other communication tools. Microsoft seems to aspire for Skype to be well integrated with Yammer & Sharepoint, but don't seem to have hit the mark yet.
Andrew Falchook
Man, I feel SO bad for the Houseparty (formerly Meerkat) team. Facebook and Twitter sure love to jump right into whatever market they happen to innovate in. It's the free market, I suppose. :)
Stefan Wirth
Facebook is becoming the American rocket internet 😵
Hrant Arzumanyan
Good job! Is this app going to be a feature of facebook or seperate app?
Albert
Is there a release date for this?
David Yo
looks like they even copied the same racial demographics represented in Houseparty's product demo
Menachem Pritzker
Can we talk about how Facebook seems to have this strange vendetta against Meerkat?
Sébastien Bauwens
Boring... Nothing new...
Allen Rapadas
Now all I need is to find attractive, 20-something friends and I can finally have a use for apps like these!
Jason Li
In a few months they'll shut this down like all their other failed attempts at launching spin-off apps. They'll take whatever they learned from it and apply it back to the Facebook app.
Lyondhür Picciarelli
My take on copying ideas from others: Copy only if you can make it really a lot better (it's called improving). Substantially. So much so that you become that improvement. If the copy is marginal, ordinary or simply to snatch userbase, then you deserve to be crushed and ignored. Facebook has a lifelong story of doing the latter and then, after the obvious outcome.. buy everything that's for sale. Whatever happens, it all gets fed into Facebook core services. Garbage and diamonds. I do not see anything different here, any improvements at all and I won't be surprised if Facebook makes an offer after failing (it's just history). If they haven't already..
Rudy Lee
Sadly it seems like FB has run out of creative ideas! :(