Now if only we could add the shitty office snacks and bitter as hell coffee, it would be just like normal
Wait, you guys had office snacks? We barely had the bitter coffee!
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#12Congrats on launch!
Thank you!
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#13Now if only we could add the shitty office snacks and bitter as hell coffee, it would be just like normal
Yeah we all chipped in and got a Nespresso machine :P
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#14Great concept and looks like some great execution on designing for a professional environment.
What would you say are the advantages of Water Cooler over Discord?
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#15Great idea! The design is a little too "inspired" by Slack though. I would strongly recommend adding at least basic video capability in the free version, since I don't think most people (including me) are going to want to pay without even trying it out.
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#16Looks great! If I've to incorporate this, would the workflow become Slack + Zoom + Water Cooler? Or would this replace any of Slack/Zoom?
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#17Great idea! The design is a little too "inspired" by Slack though. I would strongly recommend adding at least basic video capability in the free version, since I don't think most people (including me) are going to want to pay without even trying it out.
Thanks! The design is still relatively simple, but that will be changing soon as I build out more of the features. There's a 7 day free trial where you get full access to Water Cooler, and after that you're downgraded to the free tier.
With that said, we're actually still finishing up the billing system so anyone signing up right now gets an extended free trial until then. I'll make a note to further advertise the initial free trial though because it's easy to miss at the moment.
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#18Looks great! If I've to incorporate this, would the workflow become Slack + Zoom + Water Cooler? Or would this replace any of Slack/Zoom?
In the next week or two I'm rolling out direct calls. If you don't need to do external meetings, then this could definitely nix Zoom. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it would replace Slack because most teams still need that text communication option, but long term that is an area I want Water Cooler to tackle.
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#19Great concept and looks like some great execution on designing for a professional environment. What would you say are the advantages of Water Cooler over Discord?
Thank you! At present time, you get an environment that is designed specifically for the workplace -- more private by nature because everything is scoped to and only available to your organization, higher quality video chat, and higher quality screen sharing (at least when compared directly to the free version of Discord).
Long term, we'll be adding in more enterprise features like user permissions, multiple teams within an organization, SSO, and a live broadcast feature that lets you do an all-hands with your entire organization.
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#20Sqwiggle is an ancestor to this started by Michael Gutman and Matt Boyd c.2012-2013. Some teams at IBM used it. But it freaked people out because it would auto-take a snapshot via your webcam to recreate presence. I thought it was great, but everyone else thought it was creepy. https://web.archive.org/web/20150316035657/https://www.sqwig...