We’ve been waiting for months for Selfie.com to go live, and yesterday it did. Till now, its landing page has been something like the opening to a horror movie: silent, monochromatic videos of people. The page now is decidedly less creepy.
Selfie.com is a social network based on videos.
The idea is to take a video of yourself talking about whatever you want, but no doubt that’s going to start to change quickly, as people start playing with it. The videos can be posted publicly or privately.
There’s no web version. It only lives on mobile so far and only in the iOS store.
Download Selfie for iPhoneOne of the cofounders, Alex Lasky, says in The Verge that the conversation on the beta test of Selfie.com has been pretty civil so far, theorizing that it doesn’t feel so anonymous when your face is on there. He also says people have ended up meeting IRL.
The cofounders have kept it stealthy till now, but we know they’ve raised about $1.18 million in equity funding over the last 18 months. Their latest SEC filing places the company in Fort Greene.
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