Webrazzi: Aloha Live: The Domestic App Enabling Completely Anonymous Conversations

Users register as either Speakers or Listeners. Speakers can initiate conversations by specifying preference criteria (age, gender, topic) or calling random verified listeners. Listeners must complete an online active listening training and pass a rigorous certification assessment before hosting sessions.

The concept originated while founder Orkide Ercüment was teaching Customer Relationship Management at university. During a class discussion on consumer evolution and digital isolation, she framed the core thesis: can digital habits be repurposed to bring increasingly isolated people closer together?

Every user receives 15 minutes of complimentary conversation daily. To extend conversations, users purchase Aloha Live Coins (ALC) and send digital gifts (coffee, tea, food) to listeners. Certified listeners accumulate a share of these coins, which they can redeem for popular shopping or dining gift vouchers. Listening sessions are unlimited.

Following 10 months of initial development, the app launched in March 2019 on iOS and Android. In 2022, after a 6-month complete rewrite, the platform relaunched with enterprise infrastructure prepared for global scaling, introducing high-fidelity real-time voice streaming alongside text chat.

Aloha Live surpassed 250,000 total downloads across iOS and Android with nearly 100,000 active users and over 15 million minutes of voice dialogue logged. Approximately 10,000 daily active users engage in conversations, with 60,000 new users joining within a single month of the v2 rollout.

The startup closed two consecutive seed investment rounds in Q1 2021 and Q2 2022, channeling the capital into marketing expansion and full product re-architecture.

The monetization strategy encompasses coin microtransactions, non-intrusive brand sponsorships, digital gift marketplace placements, and an upcoming premium subscription tier providing unlimited conversational minutes.

The founders plan to scale Aloha Live into an international brand. Despite marketing being focused on Turkey, users join globally across Central Asia, Europe, MENA, the Americas, and APAC. The roadmap includes multilingual localized versions, AI-assisted conversation matching, and testing direct growth expansion in the United States.