Nowadays, a lot of social applications have been released for the users’ entertainment. Meowchat application has surprised many people, especially companies’ software. Minus Inc. is the creator of Meowchat has funding for about eight million dollars. This fund is comes from private investors such as Eniac Ventures, Social Starts, SIG and other private investors. Thus, it gave impact to the other competitors such as Wechat and Whatsapp application. Even though it is not catching the attention of the media, but it attracts the peoples’ attention to install this application. It is a normal thing if people never heard about this application. This is because this application just released early of this year. For Minus Inc., it is not the barrier for them to widening their empire.
This is a new application offers for mobile devices. It also can be found in Google Play Store. The installation is free for everyone. It has similarity with other application such as Wechat, Wasp and Bee Talk application. This application uses internet data to connect with other people surround them. It allows users to communicate with new people via the virtual world. Before the user can use this application, they must be signed up using the e-mail account and fill up a form that contains few questions related to their personality. Questions such as name, age, gender, hobbies and interest must be answered in order to use this application. The data will be used as Meowchat references in the future. In order to communicate with the right person, the data was applied to search for other users that have a similarity with user in term of hobbies and favorites. It is possibility of user meet new friends in this application.
Minus Inc. insisted that their application is different from the others. They said that Meowchat is an online chat room where the user can invite as many as his friends to the chatroom. Pen pal is the name indicates for a group chat in this application. It sounds like dangerous when the user might pair with strangers. However, Minus Inc. comes up with solutions in order to prevent the problem from happened. Meowchat has been set that people under 18 years old cannot use this application because it might be dangerous interacting with strangers.
Another solution to avoid inappropriate message is Meowchat provides option whether the user want to flag the rude people that sent an inappropriate message or block them from user contact list. Thus, the user never received a message or interacts with that person again. Every company must come out with any consequences that might be happening in the future. It is just like Minus Inc. made for the benefits of its users. In fact, over 12 million people from around the world use this application to interact with other people. One of the staff said that funding is enough to recover the costs of upgrading the Meowchat application. The upgraded might be in term of the designs as well as the features.