Use the topic of interest to do half anonymous chat application, Chatous won 2.1 million dollars

People tend to talk about the topics they are interested in--this is the starting point for the creation of Chatous by three Stanford University students majoring in computer science. The chat app, which was founded in November 2012, recently received 2.1 million of dollars in seed-round funding from general Catalyst,xseed and slow ventures.

Chatous is a half anonymous chat app for strangers, helping users to match chat objects with the same chat topic online. Chatous will use algorithms to dig and analyze the user chat content, as users chat content increasing, chatous will be able to match for you more appropriate chat objects, so that chat activities can continue. In addition, a picture that a user transmits through Chatous will have a duration of several seconds and will be destroyed automatically after it expires.

Chatous is between anonymous and ID identity, users can choose not to fill out any information, you can also give yourself a nickname, with a few words to create a small file, select some topic tags. Open chatous Web site or app, you can choose random Chat, you can also choose Topic Chat, chatous will be corresponding for you to push and match different chat objects.

I tried to experience a bit, when the personal information is not perfect, chatous is more for me to randomly push strangers, many of whom are male (which we all guessed). These male users see my gender also write male, apart directly out of chat--agreed to find each other interesting chat topic? At this time I trance kind of omegle website illusion.

No, you have to go on to experience the product. The author of the Wit chose to change the gender of the file to female, and the result was obvious. But this kind of push the chat content is very not nutritious, it is difficult to let people have the feeling of chatting down. Finally, I have perfected the next personal file, and try to add some topic tags, the effect is a little better: chatous matching chat object can finally chat down a little. Of course, may experience the time is relatively short, the concrete effect also can be affected.

Using algorithm mining chat data, push the appropriate chat objects, let users find the same chat topic-These ideas I think is very good. But before that, how to better access users may be a problem that chatous needs to solve. A small, anonymous chat application designed to meet the interests of strangers, the atmosphere of the community is very important, if the new users start to access the community to meet a mess of people, is likely to disappoint. But community management has always been a daunting challenge. In addition, because there is no find-your-friends function, chatous want to achieve a wider range of promotion, but also need to do a better recommendation algorithm.

Chatous has now produced nearly 2 billion chat records, app downloads more than 3 million.