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Wow, this is crazy to hear about! Back in college I worked on a fun way to share snippets of music with friends directly in iMessage called RapBits (essentially
by zuhayeer 6y ago
Wow, this is crazy to hear about! Back in college I worked on a fun way to share snippets of music with friends directly in iMessage called RapBits (essentially audio gifs). I reached out to Adam Leibsohn who was the COO of Giphy at the time. He immediately replied to my cold email excited about the idea and offered to help. He also asked about how we were handling legal. We didn't have an answer, in fact UMG had basically threatened to shut our app down in a meeting we had with them in LA originally thinking it'd be a great partnership meeting (the music industry kinda sucks). Really appreciated his response in that moment, he basically told us to keep going and see what we could do with it and just have fun!
Kind of wild to see such a fun / not-so-serious seeming product have such a huge exit and profound impact on the way we communicate now
Anyways, here's a quick demo of RapBits: https://rapbits.com/video/ad.mp4 https://rapbits.com/video/ad.mp4
Even had a brief stint of fame on /r/hiphopheads: https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/64ea1v/my_roommates_and_i_are_building_this_rap_imessage/ https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/64ea1v/my_room...