Lissn Strips Down To Its Skivvies: Three Anonymous People Chat While Others Listen

When Lissn launched on stage at TechCrunch50 in September 2009, we described it as sort of a "broader Twitter meets a simpler Google Wave". Well, like the latter, the idea behind Lissn never really caught on. By March of last year, the service decided to pivot a bit to be based more around individuals rather than specific conversations. But that didn't really work either. So now, with version 3, they've decided to strip away basically everything. Founder Myke Armstrong says that they started removing features after hearing author Eric Ries talk about creating a "minimum viable product". He determined that Lissn, at its core, was simply about conversations, not the people having them or the topics they're about. So here we have the new Lissn, which is sort of like a Chatroulette for conversations now.

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