chuPPo Chat: Pricing and volume changes
Guys,
We have gathered some statistics of where our free webcam chat option has been getting installed, the kind of sites using it, and the end audience enjoying the on-site videochat that chuPPo offers.
Pay attention that we revised our paid plans: we both increased user sessions dramatically and decreased prices - by hundreds dollars per plan. That is really cool, not even saying it’s also maturing at quality and feature set day by day.
After some discussion we also decided to increase user sessions limit for the free option. Now all free chat installs can enjoy 1,000 users per month, this is twice as much of what you had before!
The very purpose of the free chat option is not only to give websites safe start trial, but it’s more about building free chat usage audience. It is our firm intention to build substantial range of websites using chuPPo Chat free, that is why we want to provide working free solution - not only for fresh sites but also those with established communities.
Let us know how your chat is doing and how we can improve it.
November 9th, 2007 | Posted in Applications, Chat | 15 Comments »
Free chuPPo Chat. More features in development.
Finally we are glad to say that free option of chuPPo Chat is there, out of beta. We have couple dozen successful setups and are furiously working on new features.
So far chuPPo Chat has the following:
- Admin Panel;
- Usage statistics;
- Customizable public rooms;
- Customizable interface language;
- System messages;
- Smilies;
- Sounds (can be on/off);
- Webcam streaming;
- Video Dock for multiple webcam streaming view;
- User info summary;
- User kick;
- My video/audio on/off (webcam control)
In the nearest future we are going to release the following:
- Skin switcher;
- Custom logo;
- User-created (password-protected) rooms;
- Moderators;
- User status;
- Buddies;
- Private messages;
- Custom smilies;
- Avatars;
- mini-chat widget (chuPPito);
- ? (we need your feedback).
All this (and a lot more in future) is available to you for FREE use on your site. Feel free to sign up.
There’s been good feedback from the quickly growing userbase which we appreciate a lot. Please, submit more and report bugs, we do it for you for free.
November 2nd, 2007 | Posted in News, Applications, Chat | 3 Comments »
Preparing free chuPPo Chat
As you might have noticed, we have been quietly testing the new, beta way to install chuPPo Chat which you may perform by yourself within 5 minutes. No downloads, no server configuration, no hassle - only sign up, copy&paste, and play. What might also be especially interesting is that it’s free!
You have 500 user sessions a month absolutely free. This is great for starting communities, it’s also great to have fully functional webcam chat set up to try before paying anything. After a dozen installs we will follow up with out-of-beta announcement and write about new features we are now developing to add shortly.
Hurry to grab free video chat from chuPPo. Watch updates.
October 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Applications, Chat | No Comments »
Facebook featuring chuPPo Chat
We just integrated chuPPo Chat to Facebook. Feel free to check out here: http://apps.facebook.com/chuppochat/. The installation is very basic so far but we’ll add more facebook-ish functionality shortly (like friends) to make this installation specifically useful for Facebook.
The good thing about this integration is that we constantly tweak user interfaces and make a lot of minor fixes everywhere. With the fact that chuPPo uses the unified codebase, it makes all chuPPo installations on the web better on a daily basis.
Thus, we put chuPPo Chat on Facebook to reach a broader audience of users with the purpose of receiving more feedback. Thus we can react accordingly and make chuPPo better.
Feel free to have your say.
August 8th, 2007 | Posted in News, Applications, Chat | 1 Comment »
chuPPo Chat Update
chuPPo Chat UI got updated, now with small interface changes and number of users showing for every room. Feel free to check out.
July 23rd, 2007 | Posted in Applications, Chat, UI | No Comments »
Sounds in Chat, Messenger
Among all other things that we currently work on, we enabled sounds in chuPPo Chat and chuPPo Messenger. Now you can set them on or off. Feel free to check out on live demo and on your sites.
Thanks.
July 17th, 2007 | Posted in Applications, Chat, Messenger | No Comments »
Sounds in chuPPo UserOn
Now chuPPo UserOn supports sound notifications about received messages. You can turn it on/off. The feature went live yesterday, so everybody could notice that on their sites.
Wait for the same on chuPPo Messenger.
June 28th, 2007 | Posted in Applications, UserOn, UI | No Comments »
SkaDate understands chuPPo value
SkaDate gave birth its new release with all chuPPo applications integrated. SkaDate is the first software vendor to have completely adopted chuPPo gadgets.
There’s a good reason for it, because SkaDate Unity is a social networking software package, so chuPPo presense in it makes most sense possible. Smart move by SkaDate and more chances to taste chuPPo.
SkaDate customers start flowing in…
June 4th, 2007 | Posted in News, Showcases, Partnerships | No Comments »
HookUp.com starts chuPPing now
Yesterday we integrated Video Messenger into HookUp.com - busy site with hundreds thousand members. We’ve actually had a chance to chat with users right after the integration went live, since there were a lot of people online who tried the new application right away. You need to try it to see how much chuPPo changes an average site. It just makes it hot.
Congrats to both teams for great co-operation start!
May 31st, 2007 | Posted in Showcases | No Comments »