- Yope, a photo sharing app, is gaining with 2.2 million monthly active users.
- Users can create private groups to share photos, videos and audio with it.
- Yope’s exam was a good reminder that it is difficult to persuade your friends to download another social media app.
Focusing the new Yope social media app in your private friend circle is also what made it difficult for me to start using it easily.
“The difference with Yope is that you are not taking pictures just to take pictures,” he told Cofounder Yope and CEO Bahram Ismailov for Business Insider. “Everyday picture in Yope is caught to share with people closest to you.”
Yope is a photo sharing platform that says there are about 2.2 million monthly active users. Entrepreneurship capitalists also look prone to it. The app raised a $ 4.65m seed round in a $ 50 million rating, Business Insider confirmed.
Yope users share photos, videos and audio with a group of private friends to maintain a daily line and to see their days summaries.
I was appointed as a 25-year-old Gen Zer aiming to make a weekly summary, but Yope wants users to have friends to work and it took a few days to persuade my friends to join other Social media app.
When they finally did it, it was a fun way to keep up with my long distances. Their pictures appeared on my iPhone screen as a “direct activity” when the trait was activated.
From the beginning of the strips, here’s how my 72 hours in Yope looked before I hit my deadline to present my first impressions.
Easy is easy to start if you already have a group in mind
Yope; Jordan Hart/BI
Yope is direct and easy to use after you have downloaded the app. I created a profile and activated live activities before I did a group called “Besties Jordan”.
The hard part was saying the best to join the app to make it usable to me. Without them, I was only in the private group only with myself to post pictures on the collaborative wall.
Your posts do not risk being seen by users outside of group conversation, and there is no “Explore” section. You can search for others, but you can only see their content if you are in a common group.
I finally got my friends to join
It was a pleasure to stay up to date with the lives of my friends. Yope; Jordan Hart/BI
Usually, my BFF at long distances and I make weekly compilations of our lives with pictures on the text. Yope was a delightful way to have real -time updates for her daily life.
However, I am still on the fence for direct activities. I don’t use the function out of yope at all, so it was a kind of intense photo and memory of the row whenever I looked at my screen. I liked it more when I first took a picture; It was a beautiful surprise.
As adults working, it’s hard to remember to capture photos of your day, so choosing direct activities made sense. Our programs made us go out to update each other, and this came with numerous warnings that our 24-hour deadline to send photos were closing.
If I wasn’t so confused by moving Tiktok and sharing my life in the stories on Instagram, it is likely that it would not have felt like a daily job to have another place to exist online.
This can simply be the point.
Maybe I’m too old and a lot on the internet
As a 25-year-old, I am not completely sold that Yope would enter my life as it is today. However, I see a number of scenarios where it looks like a great app to choose.
I can see myself using yope while I am on vacation to give my friends a pronounced wrap of my journey. If I want to take a break from Instagram and hundreds of people watching my stories, it would seem to be a way to scratch chronically online “chronically online” without being perceived by the masses.
Yope Ismailov described it as a “shared camera roll” among friends. It is a space without content from influencers or foreigners. It is remembered when social media was limited to the Facebook wall of people you knew – an era that the young General and General Alpha lost.
“In 2012, we had Instagram and was amazing. Now, let’s create something even better for the next generation,” said co -worker Yope and Cto Paul Rudkouski.
Unlike those born in the mid -2000s, I was around for almost every era of modern social media. I have had an online presence on Myspace, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and Tumblr, to mention some.
Yope has promising components that can help him achieve a similar level of recognition, but his choice of product design means that he faces a particular challenge: attracting entire groups, not just individuals.