Omlet

While the founders of Omlet don't consider themselves to be anti-social, they were brought together as a research lab at Stanford by a shared feeling that Social Networking just isn't done "right". Being social used to mean spending time with friends, meeting new people, and enjoying each others' company. But online, being "social" seems to be more about over-sharing, spammy app requests, and intrusive monetization schemes of our own personal data.

Fueled by what they learned in the MobiSocial Lab at Stanford, the founders, lead by their PhD advisor Monica Lam, took a leave of absence from school to (tirelessly) build a network that is different. Omlet lets friends communicate easily, sharing anything from text to photos, audio, gifs, web stories, and more. But we are way more than an app, exposing a platform to developers to help power their social experiences. And rather than amassing all of the user data as a weapon for monetization, our network allows people to host their data on their choice of Cloud Storage provider, such as Box, Dropbox, or Google Drive.

After many months of developing the first version of the app, the Omlet team spent time incubating with the StartX community. We have come a long way since then. When we launched last March, we were proud to be the most tweeted app at SXSW, and quickly blew passed the million install mark, and our growth is holding strong.

And along the way, we have made friends with a long list of companies who agree with us that social should be "different". Leading device manufacturer Asus recently launched their line of Android ZenPhones, and we are delighted to be bundled with these phones and tablets, powering social experiences across their platform.

It is our vision to build an experience that works for users, developers, manufacturers, and service providers alike. We hope that you'll join us and help truly change the world!