Co-founder of Facebook and Napster, Sean Parker, restarted Airtime service on iOS and Android

Every year the number of users of social networks is growing steadily - but, despite the connection with almost each of their friends in social networks, questions are often raised criticizing the current types of communication due to the lack of a “live” response from the interlocutors.

To solve this problem, co-founder Napster, Plaxo and Facebook with a fortune of $ 2.1 billion, Sean Parker launched a new mobile application Airtime, which allows you to connect users in a chat to send any media content to each other. A similar idea lay in the past project of Parker called Airtime, only in that case, users were connected to the website, and this method is not very convenient.
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The Airtime application is available on iOS and Android and allows you to create chats from 10, 20, or even 50 friends, who will later receive notifications of your live chat activity. Users can also create video chats with 6 friends, for the effect of viewing one content with friends while sitting at the same computer. It is noteworthy that in Airtime, you can share content from services such as YouTube Live, YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud, Giphy, Vimeo, IHeartRadio, TED and Vevo without any problems. Along with this, you can share location, photos and other content.

Parker founded Airtime in 2011 and received $ 33 million in investments from investors and funds such as Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, GV, Kleiner Perkins, Social Capital, CAA Ventures and Kevin Colleran. But later, Sean Parker acknowledged that the idea of ​​Airtime was not viable because of poor implementation and a lot of bugs and an inconvenient concept, tied to using the site.

“I would like not to be pushed to launch the first version of Airtime. The philosophy of fast iterations and the fact that something needs to be released to the market without sufficient testing played a role, ” shared Sean Parker with TechCrunch.

Before launching the mobile version of Airtime, Sean Parker tested the new version under various names in app stores around the world - this avoided a lot of attention from the press. Currently, Airtime does not have any monetization plan, but in the long term, the service may start to make a profit at the expense of branded content.

Whether such an idea works in terms of attractiveness for users, as well as for advertisers, can only be seen in the near future.