SkylightThe startup host Tiktok with a more open alternative, launches its mobile application to the audience on Tuesday after only 10 weeks of energetic development. The application, which is supported by Marek Cuban and others, is now one of the many that build on the AT protocol – the same technology that is at the basis of BlueSky social networks and the growing variety of other applications.
Developed by Tori White (CEO) and Reed Harmeyer (CTO) co -founders, Skylight offers a short -term video application with many known functions, including a video editor in the application; Possibility to comment and share movies; Configure your personal user profile; And follow others.
Because it is also built on In the protocol (or “atproto” in short), users shall be immediately used for the BlueSky network Over 33.8 million users. This implies that movies published on Skylight will be visible and involved by BlueSky users and other Atproto -based applications, resembling, for example, more photography oriented.
The company is financed from the preliminary round of Cubans, which said at the starting of this yr that she desires to finance the alternative Tiktok based on the AT protocol. Leslie Feinzaig’s Graham & Walker Venture Fund He also invested.
White, who was once an influential traveler and is now a self -taught programmer living in Seattle, says that she and co -founder Hermeyer were inspired to create a skylight when they first heard that Tiktok was banned in the USA
As a part of the preparation for the ban, which is currently stopped, White supported her Tiktok movies. But she was still frightened about losing access to her community and comments. She and Hermeyer were already playing with Atproto and saw the potential.
“The first thing that interested us in Atproto was that BlueSky is not disappointed,” said Harmeyer Techcrunch at the Atmospheric Conference in Seattle in March. “We have not seen a” unsuccessful whale ” – he said, reference to graphics that appeared in the early days of Twitter When the application was continuously crashing. “It made us feel comfortable with basic technology.”
Harmeyer and White soon realized that it was the perfect time to build a latest social application on the protocol, which could possibly be “resistant to ban”.
Curling in its influential background, White began to document the development of Skylight to Tiktok, which helped to bring the product exposure and build the following potentially interested users.
“We started with distribution,” explained White. “I actually made a video before we wrote a code poem … [so] Everyone can follow our journey during construction, “said TechCrunch at the conference.” We were like my God, we are building something that we think is so cool, but no person cares. So we have to build a solution to tell people about that they are frightened about them, because we know that individuals need it – she said.
Today White’s @Buildwvithhtori Tiktok Profile It has almost 50,000 followers, many of which have turned into early testers.
Like BlueSky, Skilight supports a video message of as much as three minutes, a recent increase in comparison with previous movies previously served. But White sees that the skylight becomes greater than just a decentralized Tiktok clone.
It indicates that the skylight in the future will allow users to adapt their channel, including by using latest gestures except moving and scrolling.
Other functions in work include handling sound, duts, seams, bookmarks and playback lists.
The application is in a beta version in the Google Play store and is now available publicly at the Apple App Store after preliminary tests.