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Naval Ravikant’s Airchat is a social app built around talk, not text


Airchat is a new social media app that encourages users to “just talk.” A previous version of Airchat was released last year, but the team — led by

A previous version of Airchat was released last year, but the team — led by AngelList founder Naval Ravikant and former Tinder product exec Brian Norgard — rebuilt the app and relaunched it on iOS and Android yesterday. But Airchat’s asynchronous, threaded posts make for a pretty different experience than the live chat rooms that briefly flourished on Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces. He said the feed is powered by “some complex rules around hiding spam and trolls and people that you or they may not want to hear from,” but as of publication he hadn’t not responded to a follow-up user question about content moderation.

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