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Garnet — Build the one true home for your online community
Stop pushing your community between 10 different apps, with different links and logins to get the functionality you want.
Bring these experiences to your community instead! Just create rooms and drag in any audio, video, and text chat features you want. All in one place.
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@benoit_chambon thanks! you can almost think of us as a sort of Notion for video chat. Just like Notion let’s you compose blocks together to create engaging documents, we let you compose video chat features to compose engaging video chat rooms 😊
Thanks for hunting us @nickabouzeid!
Hey everyone 👋 We're excited to share Garnet with all of you! We realized during the cambrian explosion of video and audio apps over the past year that as communities and businesses moved online, their needs for functionality from these apps got more specific.
We started out working on a social gatherings app with some friends, but then something interesting happened. We got inbound requests from all over asking "Hey, I like your app, we could really use it if it had XYZ feature for our use-case. Could you build that for us?" 🤔
It became clear that 1) people seemed to have a pretty good idea of how they want their communication tools to work, and 2) very few people were able to build their own. So we set out to create a tool that lets anyone build their own custom video, audio, and text chat rooms and pick and choose what features they want, without having to build it themselves! 💪
We then centered the tool around community, because in every use-case we explored, there is always a group of people that trying to stay connected online. Whether it's a creator offering a course to their audience, or a business giving customers a space to help each other, there's a community seeking to stay together. 🤗
That's exactly what Garnet aims to do. Let your community stay together in one place, instead of switching between multiple apps, but still get those unique and special experiences. 💫
@_carlosdp_ Hey there, congratulations on launch.
I like your pitch and product and even created account right away, but I didn't find any reason to move from existing platform I am using.
How is it different from other and what is the feature I am getting that I miss on other platform.
I have searched for documentation but still my bad luck.
Would love to know more in detail.
@knilkantha thanks! We don’t expect people to move over to Garnet immediately, but rather start using it for events instead of using other external video chat apps for community events. Because we support so many different ways to do video chat, it eventually becomes easier to move fully on to Garnet than have an additional platform, when Garnet serves all your needs 😊
Interesting product. I have two questions though:
1. Who is Garnet for exactly? What type of community can you bring here?
2. How personal can you make your room with the customization process?
@rubenwolff thanks for the questions!
1) the idea is to be able to fit to the needs of any community online. Most of these are currently forcing Slack or Discord plus 5 other apps into this purpose. But that comes with a lot of friction because they weren’t really designed to be multi-purpose community tools.
Garnet is explicitly built to make it easy to bring members into the space and keep them together!
2) right now, you can choose between a few different room “apps” and some addons that can be composed together like Invite for passcode access, Icebreakers for a random pairing room, etc.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be allowing you to compose multiple apps in a single room!, so you can really make something special!
The idea is to get more and more customizable over time, but also make getting started with something that works well easy
We've built our community in slack (b2b saas founders, 1200 or so) and have always found it difficult to get everyone live to engage. We used other tools like Icebreakers, and zoom meetings but getting our folks to go into each platform was challenging.
Really excited to use this. Great work @gail_wilson1 and @_carlosdp_! Setting up my first "stage" now 🚀🚀🚀
?makers This looks to be really good. I'm interested in trying this out. I have several clients who have and are building communities for which this looks like it would be a great platform. If I sign up, where I'm "claiming my name", would that be personal name, or group name?
@wkeving thanks! it's just whatever name you want for the URL, ie. garnet.app/
@_carlosdp_ Thanks. What is the URL for? Directing people to a specific community? Or to my personal profile? Let me ask it this way; can I create a personal account and then setup multiple communities?
@_carlosdp_ Thanks. What is the URL for? Directing people to a specific community? Or to my personal profile? Let me ask it this way; can I create a personal account and then setup multiple communities?
Garnet is so versatile - from chatting with friends to community building to online classes, Garnet can support it all. Congrats on the launch!
@ivan_porollo thanks Ivan! Coming from someone who is also building a very versatile product, it means a lot 💪
Takes less than two mins from creating an account and setting up a room.
Easy to navigate and self-explanatory on how to use the product.
Garnet is awesome! Communities bounce between too many apps (Discord, Slack, Clubhouse, etc.). The space is due for a big change. Congrats on the launch, Carlos and Gail!
@michelle_lim Thanks! 🙂 Yea, we definitely agree! It's about time we got serious about making tools actually built for this purpose rather than duct-taping together communication apps that were built for other things.
Impressive! Just tried it.
I was on-boarded in a min and was able to create my own room in another min.
This is truly a game changer for people looking to build communities.
@boysidd Awesome! Glad you were able to figure things out so easily 😊 A lot of work is being done on the onboarding experience, still miles to go, but we're getting there!
Nice!! Have studied a lot of community products and Gail, Carlos and team are up to something really special 🚀🚀
Another great launch from Launch House 🎉
It’s weird how as online communities became more vibrant, it doesn’t feel like the tools to run them have grown too. Put simply, you shouldn’t need 5+ different chat apps for a single organization. Really excited for this!
@philhedayatnia thanks! And agreed, you shouldn’t need to throw people between so many apps, and apps should allow you to customize them to meet your use-case!
Kudos Makers! I claimed my channel. :-) twitch integration will be interesting. Do you think you’ll have IG FB integration too (ie IG TV, FB live) Though there is youtube integration and whatever could be done via IG live could be done via Youtube live i guess... I am looking to organize live video streaming events for community though most of the community “live in” IG/FB universe atm. convincing users to jump platforms is hard... Thanks!
@zurgun yea all of that is certainly possible! Would love to hear more about your use case, could you DM me on Twitter?
So glad I made the switch to Garnet! Juggling Slack channels, Zoom calls, and everything else just for an event was such a hassle 🥲
Congrats on the launch!!
I used to host all of my community events on Zoom but would always get low engagement & interactivity feedback! Then I met Gail & Carlos who introduced me to Garnet and I will never go back!!
Such a great platform to host literally ANY type of online event or meetup! Congrats on launch 🚀
@peytnhaag thanks! 🥺 I hope all the cool stuff you are doing in the creator and startup space is going well!
Thanks so much @peytnhaag !! It always means so much when we find ways to bring those meaningful and unique connections back to communities 😊
This product is amazing. Just was i was looking for.
Easy to set up, easy to understand... Thank you.
Garnet is awesome! Love the ability to customize your video experience. Good work Carlos and Gail. I’m excited to see all the wonderful things you two are going to do with Garnet.
@drake_dukes1 thanks Drake! 😊 I hope you enjoy it, let me know if you have any questions!
Whatever happened to this product @_carlosdp_ ? Is it still available somewhere? It seems like the founders have abandoned the project and pivoted to building Metaphor, but there are still many founders in the market (like myself!) who are in DIRE need of a community platform like Garnet!!! If Garnet's on the shelf now, would love to discuss repurposing or acquiring whatever's left of the product. Please ping me here or on Twitter (@venturedesignr) to get in touch! Thanks so much :) -Irene
@sydney_liu_sl Thank you so so much Sydney for your support!! It really means a lot 😊
Been waiting for this day ever since going through Launch House with Gail and Carlos!! Very excited to use this with my team.
@repreneur for sure! the new Chat app that allows for making a whole room a text chat room is in private beta right now. Reach out to us if you want to be on the list to try it early!
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