Vycarious, a new Social Media App, for experience sharing

Vycarious, a new social-media app that is available for iOS, lets you create, follow and comment on friends' experiences, ranging from a two-week vacation to handcrafting a dinner table.

To start, users create an "experience description," such as "cooking Pad Thai." They then choose a photo or video as the lead image, denote a starting date and time, and include hashtags to make their experience searchable. After that, users can upload posts, videos, images and other media until their experience ends. However, friends can still write comments even after users hit the end button to signal that their experience is over.

"There just really isn't a way to share an entire experience [on social media]," Rosalie Bartlett, co-founder and CEO of Vycarious, told Mashable. " With Twitter, it's tiny, tiny snippets. They've broken it down into moments; they've condensed it, but there's no organization."

That's why Bartlett believes the app, which launched last Friday, can survive in the increasingly crowded arena of social media.

"I think it's going to be just really a platform to kind of learn about the world and let others learn about experiences," Bartlett said. "From what I've seen is, people who are signing up now, they feel like they need to go out and do stuff so they can share it on their apps."

Vycarious already has a waiting list for Android users, with travel and do-it-yourself communities embracing the app, she added. As Vycarious catches on, Bartlett said she hopes that people will expand their definition of "experience," and see that it can include everything from growing up in rural Kansas to going on a first date.

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