Hyperkey vs Project Hatch

Discover what your friends and people around the world share in chat

Hyperkey adds never-seen-before social functionality to mobile chat. Users can now discover all visual expressions (Gifs, Stickers etc.) sent by their friends and people around the world. Then they can select and share expressions they like in their own chat.

We’re building a huge public library of user collections based on chat visual expressions. Perhaps the world’s first of its type. Our new social network gives our users, and branded content creators, the ability to make their gifs, stickers, and other forms of visual expressions available to the whole world. And, since Hyperkey installs on your smartphone as a keyboard, it works with any messenger and social networking apps that take text input. When users send gifs or stickers from Hyperkey keyboard these choices are automatically added to their public collection, and can be discovered by others and then recycled in their own chats. When users follow a particular collector they will be notified whenever the owner files an update.

Hyperkey recently raised $500K in angel funding, including well known investors Roger McNamee, Jonathan Feiber, Sam Perry, Michael Levinthal, Dan Wiener; as well as Almaz Capital and Edward Frank, former VP of Engineering at Apple. Today the Hyperkey team is 7 people.

For those who are thinking about starting a business

Project Hatch is a community site with a goal of featuring case studies from entrepreneurs who’ve created successful businesses and non-profits so aspiring founders can learn from them. In order to provide value we will focus on early stage growth and ask questions that reveal strategies you can use to grow your own company. “How did you get your first 3 sales?” “What was your first major obstacle and how did you overcome it?” “Why aren’t you 3X the size you are now?”

Location: London, United Kingdom