Freak: Game based chatting extravaganza

Hola Rodinhooders,

This moment is much awaited one for me, I have always wanted to post about my idea or product on TRH. Today is the day and I bring you FREAK. 

Freak is to break the monotony of chatting and the hazardous ways of Gaming by logging in via some social media sites revealing a lot of personal information online every time a game is to be played. Freak is a compact app that offers simultaneous gaming and chatting with a whole new set of exciting features.

Freak is founded by 5 college passouts (Aroof Shaikh, Harshwardhan, Sairam Jetty(Me :D), Mumphi Ghosh & Ayesha Farooq) with the idea of breaking the boredom involved in chatting. We once passed out college went to be a part of the silicon valley in much reputed companies with a lot of enthusiasm, just to realize it won’t last for long. Pass-times were spent only by chatting with friends online that got boring every time we ran out of topic. When we coffee lovers, met one evening at a café, the idea of freak took birth. The conversation was a regular one that involved how bored they were with their jobs and that chatting was the only option to fill in the hours. We, were all the cream of our own college and refused to fit it, when they could stand out.

Freak is a game based chatting application –

Freak offers simultaneous gaming and chatting just by flipping the screen over on the same application. Freak is a gaming application that doesn’t require any kind to social media interference, and lets you log in only by authenticating your phone number. All contacts on your phone list, having freak installed are already connected to each other and ready to play games just by being on each other’s phone list.

Home Screen

 “Chatting got boring after a few minutes all the time. The idea of playing a small yet exciting game in between chats with friends was just irresistible “says Aroof.

 

Tic Tac Toe & Arm Wrestling

Slowly and steadily the whole Idea around freak was discussed over various such evening coffees, and finally we were self assured that we wanted to bring this baby to the world. We did not even spare a second thought before leaving the silicon valley, since we were totally sure of being accepted along with other existing applications of the same genre, by offering the world what we think many deep down want.

One overwhelming part of freak is that it lets people play games with anyone in their contact list.

The USP’s that makes freak stand out amongst rest:

Multiple DPs: Tired of changing your display picture every time you want to flaunt a new one? You really do not have to be much worried, because Freak is going to make it easier for you. Unlike the conventional, one DP, Freak will help you set upto 4 display pictures, and also allow you to set a time period after which it automatically changes to the next one. To ice the cake, each DP will have the option of a caption to be added to it.

      Multiple Display Pictures

Tagging friends in a group: Freak unlike other applications, allows unlimited number of users to be added in a group. 

Tagging in group chat

The mute option indeed helps us avoid some annoying groups, but what if you could really know how much of a huge conversation was actually addressed to you? Yes, now with freak, you can tag your friends in a group, in case something specific is to be told to him/her. Freak has also designed the idea of being able to tag a friend in your status on freak in case, the status updated is specifically for someone (special). In freak, a user needs to approve of him/her being added to a group instead of taking the pain of leaving the group later. 

Tagging in Status

Circular chat concept: This was an idea till now, which has been realized by freak to break the monotony of the regular looking chat screen.

What if you really did not have to enter the one-to-one chat screen, and still get a glimpse of the most preferred received chats? Yes, Freak is going to make it that user friendly in a stylish fashion with the help of the circular chat concept. 

Circular chat

One tap login: This feature is the most user friendly of all. As per the existing condition, to play a game online, we need to login via some social media to be able o play games, and also most of the times we play games with strangers although unwantedly due to the existing infrastructure of online gaming.

Freak came along to solve this problem, by letting users login to Freak only by providing the phone number. The exchange of OTP registers the user to freak in a single click and lets them play games with anyone in the contact list without exposing any personal data.`

Sending of PPTs and documents: While busy on Freak, you do not have to login to your email id just to be able to send any important document across. Freak, along with many funky features in chatting, also allows documents of any formats to be send across to anyone connected via freak.

Documents like doc files, PPTs, spreadsheets, PDFs, etc can be sent across freak to any contact.

Simultaneous Gaming and chatting: This is the uniqueness of Freak amongst all existing applications of its genre. An application that connects via phone number to all contacts in the address book and lets you play as well as chat with all these cool features, being offered by Freak is one of it’s kind. Chatting and gaming in freak is just a flip screen away. While gaming, just flip the screen to chat to your opponent or to anyone else in that matter by auto pausing the game. In  the same way, when bored of long conversations, play a small game to spice it up.

The vision and the purpose:

This product was initially thought of as an ice breaker for conversations, and later on all the features and functionalities were built upon the single idea of simultaneous gaming and chatting. The idea of simultaneous gaming and chatting in a single application that allows login only via the phone number, seemed so attractive, that all the other features were decided to make the decided experience even more smooth and user friendly.

Our target audience is the world. We have not built or thought of this application targeting a small section of the society or any age group. This application has been designed in a way that one and all can use it. The application is so user friendly, that someone need not be a pro gamer to play games in it, although offers a lot of exciting features like the avatar name for a gamer and the ledger board with exciting badges to have the gamer’s interest.

Few more screens to help you get a closer look:

List View & Grid View of Contacts

 Audio Buzzing

Shake to buzz & In App game centre

A demo view of Channels page

I have attended TRH open house sessions and have been actively following TRH community since the past 3-4 months. The energy of this community inspires me a lot and the motto of posting here, is to get some feedback from TRH community.

We are looking for mentors in fields of gaming and marketing for our application, hoping to find some through TRH. Also, we are giving a free 3 month trial for all the channel partners, have a page of your own and reach your subscribers on freak with your creative content. 

Please feel free to get in touch at:

Sairam@freakapp.in

Twitter: @freakapp,@aroof_shaikh,@sairamjetty,@farooq_ayesha

Beta version of freak will be out on December 15, Please register using the link below to get a link to our Beta:

goo.gl/forms/m42cUNxYaC