Is Daze here to replace WhatsApp?
Daze, an AI-powered messaging app designed for GenZs, has gone viral on social media. Currently, the app has garnered about 8 million views on Instagram and Tiktok.
Although the app has not launched, it already has 156,000 sign-ups. Daze is predictably the next-generation replacement for WhatsApp and iMessage. With product demos and app in action, Daze is not following the trend of influencer or sponsored advertising.
Daze provides a freestyle messaging app that takes clues from social media. It’s just like creating an Instagram story using various fonts, styles, graphics, and more. Instead of the common blue and green interface for chats, Daze offers multi-colored messages that float across the screen alongside photos, graphics, stickers, GIFs, drawings, decorated backgrounds, and others.
Furthermore, the app is using AI to power some of its creative tools. It seeks to integrate more AI-based technology in the nearest future.
“Our goal with Daze has been to make a feature complete messenger that is competitive with iMessage, WhatsApp, while still having a suite of really fun and creative features.” Willem Simons, the Founder of Daze said to TechCrunch.
“You can quickly type a message and press send, or drag the message anywhere within the chat. It is easy to use and utilitarian, but also very free and unconstrained.” Simon who is a serial entrepreneur based in New York added.
This isn’t Simon’s first rodeo with this kind of app. In 2022, he worked on a similar app called Muze. Like Daze, Muze was a unique mobile messaging app with tools similar to Daze’s. Simons founder Muze alongside Douglas Witte and Grant Davis with Fenner Stevens as CEO. But Daze is Simon’s individual project.
Daze, which was previously a social calendar has been built entirely in React Native to ensure its smooth launch on iOS and Android. November 4th 2024 is the scheduled date for Daze’s launch. However, the app is already being tested by 1,400 invite-only beta users. Most of these testers fall in the 13- to 22-year old demographic.
Sources have revealed that Daze’s 60-day retention for people who have sent a message on the app is more than 50%. Prelaunch, Daze has raised $5.7 million in funding from a16z, Kindred Ventures, Alpaca Ventures, Uncommon Projects, Betaworks, Maveron, 35 Ventures, New Wave, Antoine Martin, and more.
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