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Paul Graham has a nice little essay about his perspective on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html . It's pretty lengthy so I would suggest pondering over various secti…

Thanks for sharing, I totally agree the inability to have a side conversation on video call makes group conversations so unnatural & zoom fatigue is a big issue! Just out of curios…

Hey thanks for the answer! Just out of curiosity, how did your team work to develop that habit when starting out? Is there anything in particular you did to hit that critical mass?…

Thanks for sharing your perspective! Glad to hear those organized chats have been helping out even if they aren't full replacements.

Thanks for the tips! I've heard a few of these methods being tried out these days, especially the games & socials helping out. Just curious, do you find people joining those always…

Thanks for sharing, definitely agree that having roommates helps a lot with the face to face interaction throughout the day! Curious, do you still reach out to those close coworker…

If the problem sounds interesting to anyone, I hacked up a little landing page to try and explain the proposed app better and gauge interest, https://trychitchat.web.app/ . Shoutou…

Hey there, sorry about the rapid repost! Like I mentioned earlier, I think I messed up somehow the first time because it didn't show up on "Ask HN". I hope I didn't make this redun…

Oh ok thanks for the follow up! I definitely agree it's challenging to replicate that kind of situation virtually. Especially if people eat lunch at different times, low visibility…

Hey, I'll check it out, thanks!

Hey there! I am the same poster from before and I apologize for the initial post. I think that post got suppressed by HN for some reason. I suspect it's because it somehow spiked u…

Hey, this link is super interesting thanks so much for linking it! I really like their concept of a spatial dimension to meeting people virtually (reminds me a bit of onlinetown). …

Haha, I appreciate the candor! I definitely do like the tranquility now a days when I'm deep in code as well. Just out of curiosity, would your answer also apply in moments when yo…

Considering it's been 6 months since most office workers have started WFH, this is a question I've been thinking on. Of course, remote work has many benefits such as cutting down o…

Thanks for the feedback, it's very help and constructive! Regarding the 3rd point about screen fatigue on the computer, would a lower bandwidth (ie phone call or audio), help mitig…

Hacked up a landing page to outline the idea better if the problem sounds interesting, https://trychitchat.web.app/ . Would love to hear everyone's thoughts! P.S. https://uselander…

Considering it's been 6 months since most office workers have started WFH, this is a question I've been thinking on. Of course, remote work has many benefits such as cutting down o…

Sorry about the confusing branding haha. We heard a lot of software developers express interest in a tool that provided easy access to all their frequently used symbols, but didn’t…

Hey, thanks for taking a look! Excalidraw is a great tool and we believe their hosted instance also supports collaboration for multiple users. Open sourcing the project is not in o…

Totally understand where you’re coming from. Excalidraw is a great standalone whiteboard tool, which is why we forked it to start off our project. This includes some new features t…

I find that a lot of startups (esp B2B ones) have very similar landing pages. You know, the one with the call to action, alternating graphic-image columns of use cases, banner of c…

Thanks for bringing that point up! So just to reiterate for other people, the Hacker News link redirects to our landing page on Notion, which shows how to use a few features we tho…

Hey, thanks for the great question! Yep, Miro is a fantastic whiteboarding tool and we've used it in the past. In terms of why it wasn't fulfilling our needs, there were a couple t…

Thanks for taking a look! We currently do not have support for free-form drawing. We understood that this could be a valuable feature, but decided on not including it for now to gi…

Hey Hacker News, Co-creator of Scribble here. My friends and I are three undergraduate engineering students, and we’re building a digital whiteboard for remote software engineering…