It started with a question in a classroom.
Aloha Live was born from the vision of creating a different social communication experience in a world where people communicate increasingly online, yet struggle to truly express themselves and be genuinely heard.
The app's founder, Orkide Ercüment, combined her longstanding background in finance and academia with her keen interest in human behavior, communication, and digital transformation to take the first steps of Aloha Live in 2018.
The foundation was laid during the Customer Relationship Management classes she taught at Kadir Has University. Discussions on how digitalization was shifting consumer behaviors and interpersonal relationships brought up a crucial question:
Can technology bring people closer, rather than making them more distant?
Driven by this question, Aloha Live was designed as a social platform where people could communicate without putting their identities forward, free from fear of judgment, and expressing themselves genuinely.
From a classroom idea to a global community.
What started as a simple idea in 2018 has grown into a vibrant social platform, connecting hundreds of thousands of people through voice and real conversations.
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The Birth of Aloha Live
Development efforts that began in 2018 evolved into a concrete venture with Aloha Live's launch on iOS and Android app stores in 2019.
From day one, Aloha Live focused not merely on speaking, but on listening.
While conventional social media platforms prioritized visibility, follower counts, and posts, Aloha Live introduced a distinct communication model centered on what people genuinely wanted to say rather than who they were.
Anonymous chatting, distinct listener and speaker roles, and a trust-based interaction culture formed the cornerstone of the platform.
From a Mobile App to an Expanding Social Platform
The evolution of Aloha Live stood at the center of founder Orkide Ercüment's tech entrepreneurship journey.
As the application scaled, software development, product management, and user experience processes expanded, eventually transforming Aloha Dijital into an independent technology company with its own engineering team.
In 2022, Aloha Live unveiled its revamped visual identity and voice chat features. Originally built around written chat, the platform evolved with voice communication allowing users to forge deeper, more authentic connections.
In subsequent years, features such as multilingual communication, real-time translation, AI-driven chats, the Confession Wall, and gamified reward mechanisms expanded the platform's horizons.
Today, Aloha Live continues to advance as a next-generation social platform uniting anonymous voice and text chats, authentic human connections, and AI-powered experiences.
A more human digital world.
When I began developing the Aloha Live concept in 2018, my starting point was simple: people could connect online more than ever before, yet they could rarely find someone with whom they could speak freely and authentically.
I wanted technology not just to bring people together, but to create an environment where they could truly listen to one another.
What began with a single idea evolved over the years into an app reaching hundreds of thousands of users and a technology company engineering its own proprietary solutions.
Today, as we continue to advance Aloha Live, we keep asking the same essential question: How can we enable people to build more meaningful connections?
Economist. Academic. Entrepreneur.
Orkide Ercüment is an economist, academic, and technology entrepreneur.
A graduate of Istanbul University Department of Economics (English), she is pursuing her doctoral studies at Marmara University. Bringing more than 20 years of economist experience in the financial sector, she has been lecturing in finance at Kadir Has University since 2013.
Having launched the Aloha Live venture in 2018, she is also the Founder & CEO of Aloha Dijital Bilişim A.Ş.
She spearheads the conceptualization, execution, and commercialization of numerous technology ventures and R&D projects across artificial intelligence, data analytics, and digital product development.