📹 TALK: Zoom + Tinder gonna Huddle up

Gm, this is the doodhwala, we’re that good friend that’ll cover for you in every office video call. “Yeah, his mic is not working 🎤”

Speaking of video calls, online meetings and web3 don’t go well, like pani poori and doodh we’ve been told. 🙄

Look, web3 is not just a cool badge to use in your Twitter-bio (even if you’re a VC)

It’s about decentralization, keeping data private, storing info on distributed servers and a whole lot more.

Yet most of us use BIG centralized companies’ for video calls.

Think about this past week, you probably used:

⏱ Zoom

🔇 Google Meets

🤡 WhatsApp Video

For your video calls.

But did you know there’s a web3 decentralized video calling option?

Let’s dive in!

📹 Alright team! HUDDLE up!

It’s Wednesday Saturday!

You know what that means — you’re either headed for a hangover or getting over one.

Either way, we’ve got the BEST HANGOVER cure 👉 doodhwala’s desi degen dost

And today we’re talking to one man taking on Google and Zoom

We talkin with Ayush Ranjan.

Who tf is Ayush?

• CEO of Huddle01

• future CEO of Cuddle01

• Naruto ENS name collector

What tf is Huddle01?

Simple words 👉 web3 Zoom

Complex mumbo jumbo 👉 Simple and secure video calling app and infrastructure for the decentralized web.

We spoke with Ayush on a bunch of different things:

• Why build a decentralized Zoom?

• Why did Naruto kill Yira?

• What’s Huddle01’s revenue model?

• What web3 trends is Ayush seeing?

• What excuse can I use to avoid Huddle01 meetings?

Let’s dive in!

BTW: If you wanna listen to the interview with Ayush, checkout our pod:

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🍼 First thing’s first — Huddle01 is v cool, how’d you buidl it? How’s it diff from Zoom + GMeet?

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We played the long game.

We started building this 2 years ago as a proper web3 video conferencing tool that looks exactly like Google Meets.

The only difference, on Huddle01 you can:

• use like ENS domain names, LENs profiles, etc. as usernames

• store data on Filecoin, InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)

• live stream on multiple platforms

• show off your NFTs

That’s not all, we’re also launching other cool features like:

→ Voice modulation

→ AR filter

→ NFT hodlers’ meetings

→ broadband sharing

Damn, imagine joining every call with a different voice. One day imma sound like Bane from Batman 🤿, the next imma sound like Poo from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham 🐩.

🍼 Ayush, you have a problem. You’re addicted to collecting Naruto ENS domain names. Just HOW MANY DO YOU have? And why do you collect these?

I have A LOT of Naruto crypto stuff:

I’ve got these Naruto ENS names:

• masashikishimoto.eth — the write of Naruto.

• hashiramasenju.eth — the first Hokage

• tobirama.eth — the second Hokage

I also have a bunch of Naruto NFTs, like this one:

My dream is to meet the director of Naruto one day and he says, “You stole my name!”

And then I go, “Gomen-nasai! It’s yours for free!”

Then he goes, “Arigato, Ayush-san! Amazing, please come for a never-before-seen episode screening.”

I even have a Naruto tattoo on my hand!

Since college, whenever I’ve felt low, I’ve watched Naruto.

One reason why is he never gives up. He has a saying in the show “Believe It!”

That gets me up and going when I’m facing obstacles!

Naruto is peak fiction and it influenced me to stay positive and humours!

You can be the next Hokage fo sho Ayush! 💪

🍼 Now onto the real Qs — Huddle is free (even after 40 MINUTES 🤯). So how tf do you make money?

Currently, we’re freemium!

We did this to create network effects.

If we paywalled Huddle01 from Day#1, we couldn’t create a network and differentiate from Zoom or Google Meets.

So, we start with freemium → build network effects → upsell features

For instance, if you want to have an NFT (like a Crypto DickButts) or an AR filter (like a BLR without traffic) or change your voice (to Gabbar) you have to pay.

That’s how users will pay on the platform.

But this ☝️ is not how the primary revenue source.

The main revenue is from SDKs 👉 Software Development Kits

So, let’s say a company comes to us and says, “We’re building a metaverse and we need audio + video. Can we use your SDK on our front end?”

We charge these companies — per user, per minute.

That’s some deep insight! If you’re a Metaverse that’s actually launching a Metaverse, not a screensaver with some hills and shit, hit Ayush up! 👋

🍼 You’re pretty popular in the web3 circle (ofc if the doodhwala is talking to you) but do the BIG DAWGs — Zoom and GMeet — know about Huddle01?

We’ve had a chat with a few publicly listed companies as well.

But network effects for video calling tools come mainly from scheduling tools like:

• Google Calendar

• HubSpot

• Calendly

• Cal.com

• Microsoft 365 suite

We’re already integrated with Google Calendar and Cal.com. So, Google knows we exist.

We compete on network effects by links.

The more links share = The more wins.

Zoom has shared 5 billion links

Huddle has shared ~25,000

As we integrate with more calendar-sharing tools, the name Huddle01 will be known!

Please let the name doodhwala also be known. 🙏

🍼 Are you guys thinking about a token (not because we want an airdrop) but as part of your larger roadmap?

We’ve been thinking about a token for over a year.

But we gotta think of it based on economic utility.

And we gotta answer — what is the monetary and fiscal need of the token?

Most token-issuers don’t have this figured out.

And because they don’t, they end up dumping their tokens on retailers.

So, we took a conscious decision to solve for demand first i.e. to use Huddle01. This is intrinsic motivation.

Then comes extrinsic motivation, where tokens could be a kind of reward system.

We thinking about a Huddle01 score system.

And also a work token model — so if Arvind for instance hosts a node, he’s proving a service. In return, he gets some sort of token reward.

But this is still a long way off.

Tbf, we’re just asking to qualify for an airdrop 🪂

🍼 When you launched Huddle01 what were the users who you saw and went, “Damn, never knew those guys needed a video calling app”

We initially targeted companies coming outta accelerators because we came out of one.

But a real surprise for us was the younger crowd.

See, the younger crowd that’s coming into this virtual world don’t know the legacy players.

So, they have three options — Zoom, GMeet, Huddle01.

These people started becoming power users of Huddle01. And they’re tweeting about us a lot too!

That initially started a network effect going and got the viral engine going.

Here’s hoping your next set of power users are from doodhwala 👀

🍼 Most web3 companies call themselves web3 but don’t use Huddle01. How much did guilt-tripping them into using Huddle01 play into the marketing strategy?

This works like a charm actually.

We told people, “oh you have an NFT, an ENS, but you use Zoom, not very web3 of you right?”

In fact, one of the biggest crypto companies — Messari Crypto uses Huddle01 for their meetings.

And the way we got them on board was because of our screen share and live stream quality.

Messari needed high-quality video for their technical live streams, especially to present data.

Most video call providers don’t go beyond 480p. But Huddle01 provides 1080p video quality.

Damn, wen doodhwala custom name Ayush? 👀

🍼 CryptoBros are lonely and don’t know how to talk to girls. So the obvious question is — wen Cuddle01?

So here’s the backstory.

One of our designers — Aditya — created a landing page for Cuddle01 to connect people in a “fun way.”

We even bought the domain name.

Let’s see what we do with this.

But we see the “01” name in other apps like Cuddle01, Buddle01 (to play video-on chess matches).

It’s become a brand name. Hopefully, it creates network effects for Huddle01 as well.

Damn, finding dates and playing chess, don’t know which is more difficult. 😭

🍼 The most important question — how do you take your doodh? 👀

My answer will be very different.

I drink it with Horlicks!

I like milky coffee, but nothing beats Horlicks.

Horlicks?!?! That’s a first, but at least you're drinking doodh. 😇

We’re moving from GMeets to Huddlle01 faster than every web3 nerd is moving from all over the country to BLR.

You can follow Ayush here, and Huddle01 here.

Give him a 👋 and let him know the Doodhwala sent ya!

#CuddlesOnHuddle01

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That’s all for today bhaiyo aur bheno! Naale Sigona!

Aakash "Dahi Cheeni" Athawasya & Arvind "Doodh Peda" Krishna

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