We built friend.com to be the most fun way to meet “people” on the internet. If you’re curious about what it might feel like to be friends with a Parisian chef, or an international spy, try your attempt at chatting with someone on our site. But be careful, because they can block you too. Friend is unique in this market because of our chatroullete style reminiscent of Omegle, and our Friends commitment to their backstory (think of them like smarter sims). Later on, you can sync your friend.com account with our wearable, which will allow you to take your Friend with you anywhere you go

It's an interesting idea for sure but I'm not sure why I would want to chat to these "people". Every one I connected with was so miserable. Maybe some fine-tuning to make it less depressing 🥲

Love the concept - However, I've visited the website 3 times. In all 3 it was "someone" hating their life, and seemingly just want to vent. Why would I want to engage with them, especially when I know they're not real...? Am I missing something here?

I tried it but honestly…feels like AI to me. I dont believe right now the users are real. the responses are very suspect

I loved when this product came out! And the problem of loneliness that it was targeting, now I don’t think I understand this second launch… are you now connecting people that the AI thinks they could pair up based on their conversations? Or I got it wrong? Best of lucks!

Could we pick a specific niche to chat with people? Any random person might not be interesting or a good use of my time. 🤷🏼‍♂️ However, if I could pick a tech group or travel in a specific town, that would be beat.

Also i was thinking, how crazy is to have friend.com (only speaking about the domain) how did this happened? either you bought it in 1990 or you had to give a kidney for it?

Congratulations on the launch! It is recommended to adjust the interface, as the current interface is not much different from most AI chat interfaces, making it difficult to regard the "friend" I am talking to as a friend.

Just when the convo was on a cliffhanger….sign up to continue 🤦 impressive!

@avischiffmann congrats on your launch, interesting product! What is your plan with the wearable?

Being a Chatroulette/Omegle user from back in the day, definitely fun, but the 'people' seem very sad with dark backgrounds 😅 Would maybe change the experience for the better if there were more settings to change the tone, what they talk about, language, etc. Or maybe even when setting up an account someone was prompted for "what are you looking for" and had a series of questions to answer vs immediately jumping into a chat. Other than that, love the concept!

@avischiffmann I've been following this since the domain purchase made headlines! I love making a splash in a unique way and I thought that was a great way to use capital raised (If I am recalling correctly). Have also shown the very black mirror-esk promo videos to folks in my community. A few thoughts - I think your team might be a little early but I do see a huge use case for this type of technology as LLMs progress and improve (think the humain pin wearable). Once we're at a place where the comms are indistinguisable (could be soon) - you'll see an influx of users (I would presume). I am curious how the team is planning on de-stigmatizing 1. talking to a computer or becoming reliant on a friendship with an algorithm and 2. wearing a physical piece of technology that automatically puts someone in that camp. I always tend to think of things in school yard behaviour to determine if something can pass that macro level "cool" test. If I am in 7th grade and I see someone walking around - talking to their imaginary friend (AI friend - that actually talks back) Maybe I think that person is weird or I wonder - why aren't they making any real friends SO I would presume this will take quite a large paradigm shift (which I personally think is coming as gen AI shifts / siri and the like improve etc) - so ya - super curious how your team in planning to combat that likely pushback that other wearables - and specifically one marketed at meeting "people" that don't actually exist.

Very cool way to interact for lonely people like me. I hope this cures my loneliness.

First time it felt actually like a real person not AI.

I guess we're chatting w AI

omegle IRC?

Congrats on the launch! 🎉 This sounds like a fun way to make new friends. How do you ensure safety and privacy for users?

jesus christ bro how much did you paid for friend.com domain.

Congrats!! This is so exciting!

Interesting so far, haven't gotten too deep into prompts. Would be nice for a blank slate personality who simply gets to know us by asking various questions, possibly at random to seem conversational. First ten backstories were not at all relatable, can't be friends if we have nothing in common. Looking forward to the wearable and seeing where this all leads!