Naval

Arjun Khemani

Kyle Barber

Norgard

 Then, in the share sheet that pops up, there's a save video option.

 If you want to save a whole tag set, you summon up the 

 tag sets either by tapping on tags at the end of the room,

 or by just tapping on any active tag in a room.

 Now you have to be a speaker or a host to do this part.

 And the tag set in the upper left will say playing tag name.

 So now you know you're playing that tag set.

 then a download full chat option should show up.

 you can download everything tagged with that as one video.

 As a bonus feature, the speed of the downloaded chits 

 will be the same as the speed that you're playing back at.

 speed, make sure your playback is set at 2x.

 If you want to download it at 1x, make sure your playback is set at 1x.

 The export quality is not going to be great. We're actually 

 working on improving that right now to have higher quality 

 exports and to also put the lava lamp effects back in when exporting.

 Hey, welcome to AirChat. I made this room to show you around the app.

 We're still very early and the app is changing a lot, 

 so there's not a lot of instructions on how to do things.

 AirTravel is about having great conversations that are asynchronous and person-to-person.

 Think of it like showing up to a dinner party or a house party.

 So unlike most other apps, AirChat is focused on voice.

 You can send text messages, but the main way people communicate is by voice messages.

 To keep using the house party analogy, what 

 see on this screen right here is called a room.

 conversation, plus maybe some side chats in the comments.

 Down here at the bottom is the main record button.

 Press and hold it and talk into your phone to record a message.

 Then let go to listen to the message and send it to the room.

 There are also buttons for recording a video or sending 

 some text, or uploading a picture or video from your phone.

 In AirChat, every message or video you send is called a chit.

 And this white dashed line above the record button, that's the chit line.

 Any message you record will show up there.

 Try tapping on my face as you listen to this chit.

 It'll pause the chit that you're listening to.

 Tap in the space to the left or right of my 

 name to go forward or backward in the chit line.

 If you tap left, it'll go to the beginning of 

 chit. Tap left again to go to the previous chit.

 Press the X in the top left corner to leave this room.

 That will take you to the main screen, which looks kind of like this.

 Here you'll see public rooms that you can 

 duck into, private rooms that are just for you,

 as well as notifications about rooms and people you follow.

 On the right here, there's a bunch of ways to interact with a chit.

 You can comment on it, heart it, or restitch it 

 into another room that you're already a speaker in.

 You can also bookmark a room you like by 

 pressing the button in the top right corner,

 or follow a speaker by pressing the follow button under their name.

 room, click the book icon in the bottom left.

 Every voice message is transcribed, so you can skim or read 

 or search them. Oftentimes, skimming is faster than listening.

 In fact, you might find that most people speak 

 pretty slowly, so you can speed it up by pressing

 That's about it. Now go play with AirChat. 

 It's like a house party in a mansion. There's

 a lot going on, so explore. Peek into rooms, listen in on conversations, add your voice

 when you feel like it, or wander away when 

 you're bored. Make yourself at home. And if

 you break any house rules, and there aren't many, 

 someone will kindly let you know, so don't worry about it.

 One tip I'll leave you with is try and keep your chits short.

 They're the atomic unit, and there's no way to fast forward or rewind a chit.

 So long chits get unwieldy, and it's totally fine 

 record a few chits in a row if you have more to say.

 And if we're missing moderation tools, please let us know.

 which removes all their stuff from all your channels

 and prevents them from seeing your stuff.

 You can hide them, which hides all their commentary

 from your channels for all users, not just for yourself.

 You can delete any individual chip that's out of line.

 You can control exactly which speakers get to speak.

 That last one is actually quite powerful.

 You can just stitch them in once they've proven themselves

 to be civil commentators. You can unfollow people if you're in house party

 or block party. And soon, we will be adding hide chit.

 So you can even hide individual chits from speakers

 that you think don't apply. And I encourage 

 you to use the moderation tools well and widely.

 By the way, the art on that last chit was automatically generated.

 You can use a little sparkle button next to 

 your microphone button after you've recorded a chit

 and it will try to generate automatic AI art for you.

 as we'd like it to be but it's effortless.

 My suggestion is, as Aaron said, to speak in short chits, 

 also to only leave a maximum of 2-4 chits at a time if 

 in a conversation, and give other people a chance to respond.

 If you go off monologuing, either with long chits or with too many 

 chits in a row, without engaging in a dialogue, people will tune you out.

 Obviously journal rooms and AMA rooms are different, where you can 

 ramble as long as you want, but if there's an expectation of a 

 then please pause in conversation just like you would in a real one.

 Here's what happens when you block a user on this platform.

 The blocked user cannot see any room hosted by you in its entirety.

 The blocked user is removed from any of your 

 rooms they might have previously been a speaker in.

 The blocked user cannot see any chit or comment posted by you in any 

 other room, but if that other room is accessible to the blocked user, 

 then they can see everyone else's content in the room, just not yours.

 Now let's discuss hide. Hide in AirChat is more powerful than mute on other platforms.

 It lets you hide the hidden user's activity in rooms and under chits that you control.

 When you hide a user, the hidden user can see and interact with your 

 content, but their interactions won't appear to anyone on the app except themselves.

 The user is also hidden from all your rooms, that is all the rooms you host.

 Any comment the user posts in your room is hidden for everyone in the room.

 The primary difference between block and hide is that 

 blocking blocks read access, whereas hiding blocks write access.

 you can't even see any rooms hosted by me.

 Whereas with hide, you can still see the rooms hosted by me 

 you can still see my individual chits in other people's rooms,

 but anything you comment in my rooms or 

 on my chits will not be visible to anyone.

 She talks about a common problem with real life dinner parties or house parties

 where the host spends a lot of time and energy decorating, coming up with the

 theme, inviting just the right people, but then once the people show up the host

 kind of wants to just sit back and let the magic happen. And Priya is saying

 that this is an abdication of your responsibility, that you as the host need

 party, kind of as a king. And if you don't

 then someone else is going to fill that power vacuum and rule over your party,

 but they won't do it with your guests best interests in mind. They'll do it for

 whatever selfish reasons they have. While you, you're the king or queen of the

 party and the guests came to your party voluntarily to kind of submit to your

 rule for the duration of the event. And 

 so you have to be active, you have to be

 actively curating or moderating, to use the words we're using here, to keep the

 event focused on your purpose and on your guests.

 Yes, the reason is there to prevent user name squatting,

 because it's very common now in new networks

 that people come in and grab all the good names

 and they just sit on them and they either sell them later

 or they fall into disuse. So we only hand 

 out short names to very, very active people

 and people who are building up good follower base

 with good content, and it's always done based on their

 previous activity, not as feature activity, and there is

 a tendency that we retain to take it away if their account

 goes dormant or inactive. So that way you can rest assured

 that all of these short user names are being put to good use

 rather than simply being squatted or have gone dormant.

 We play with haptics and colors and hard limits and in reality

 it's just much more important that the speaker be able to talk 

 without being interrupted and so that they keep their train of thought

 and have the correct feeling about it. And so 

 actually the feedback comes more on the other side

 which is it's really easy to skip a chit. You just tap, 

 boom, gone. And so hopefully people will figure that out.

 The ums and ahs are fillers where your brain is 

 making you pause while you figure out what to say next.

 If you don't want to say them, you could just pause instead.

 It's not that uncomfortable, it's not that strange, 

 just takes a little bit of practice to get used to it.

 I cannot imagine a better public speaking practicing platform than this one.

 It's literally designed that way. Give it a shot. 

 Short chits, lots of them. Re-record, no embarrassment.

 But for God's sakes, don't write it down first. 

 That just sounds like work and nobody wants to work.

 A quick note, there are two closely intertwined features of this app that are worth being

 mindful of. One of the features is that you are 

 able to step into a chatroom and join in proactively

 in a conversation, add a comment, make an observation, ask a question, answer a question,

 so on and so forth. There's another feature wherein 

 you step into a chatroom and while you have the ability

 to participate, you consciously choose not to and rather choose to settle into the role

 of a passive observer, respectfully. Doing so, knowing that 

 the conversation as it is developing and unfolding and evolving

 in real time before you is doing so completely independent from your contribution.

 Wisdom on this app is knowing when it is your 

 time to take the role of the proactive contributor

 quietly and patiently and respectfully, tune

 into the conversation and let it be as it is.

 This app allows individuals, it allows users to walk that line and walk that line nicely.

 So if everything is framed as serving this purpose,

 then none of your moderation decisions are personal.

 highlighting new people on the app, and Naval joins and leaves a chit.

 Maybe I'll delete his chit. It has nothing to do with how I feel about Naval.

 It has to do with the fact that his chit is not serving

 the purpose of the room, that the purpose is for new people only. That's it.

 This conversation is helping me figure out that 

 there's actually two different things that we do here.

 One is curation, the other is moderation.

 Curation is who gets to speak in your room, and 

 moderation is what they get to say and how they behave,

 and how you correct it once they're in the room.

 Now, this platform right now is very curated, and it will remain somewhat curated,

 platform level will go down over time as it grows,

 and so the curation at the room level must go up.

 In terms of moderation, the moderation tools will get better and more lightweight,

 so it'll actually become easier to moderate over time.

 Right now, moderation is heavyweight and often difficult 

 because of the signal that it sends to the person being moderated.

 ways, and Petri had a good point earlier,

 which is the more you curate, the less you need to moderate.

 The less you curate, the more you need to moderate. So keep that in mind.

 A common mistake on AirChat is to just talk at 

 length for like 30 seconds, you know, two minutes.