The problem Rally solves

Social audio apps (Twitter Space, Clubhouse, Discord, Zoom…) are amazing tools - but as platforms, they fail to unlock the best experience possible for users.

Currently, there is no easy-to-use social audio apps that allows users to easily find, create, and monetize audio room/content without either:

• Compromising your data and content ownership (if the platform goes down, you can say goodbye to all the content you curated or created for years)
• Compromising data privacy,
• Or losing your a significant part of your audience

Web3 is unique because it offers us the tools to create an online experience that allow us to:

1️⃣ Easily onboard entire communities;
2️⃣ Provides users an online experience where they are in total control of what they publish, who can access it, how, and when

To address the shortcomings of current social audio apps, we decided to create Rally, an open-source social audio app designed for web3 communities.

By connecting web2 and web3 technologies, we created a social audio app that respects data ownership and privacy while offering the most seamless, user-friendly experience possible creators a platform with minimum onboarding and giving that won’t lock them in (or their audience).

On Rally users can create and manage their audio rooms, join audio rooms to have voice chats, publish room recordings and interact with published recordings. All those actions can be public, or gated, with the access control conditions defined by the creator. Users can also search through both (indexed) rooms and recordings easily.

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Team:

• Naomi Hauret (architecture, design, front-end development, back-end development)
• Timotej Gerželj (smart contract development, subgraph development, devops)

Challenges I ran into

• We ran into issue with our subgraph and had to switch from Web3.Storage to Infura IPFS to ensure the metadata of audio rooms would be indexed properly