Hey Vincent - the GIF is supposed to show Katherine joining a room and sharing her own screen. You cannot force Katherine to share her screen.
That GIF is not clear to me either. I don't even get what the concept of a room is supposed to be? Or to to phrase it differently: how is this different than slack?
We are focused on rooms, which are audio-first spaces, not text conversations like Slack. Rooms are flexible containers that can be as simple as a traditional video conference, or more sophisticated, eg walk around on a map or listen to lofi music.
Looks interesting. Would be good to see: 1. How exactly it works 2. How it's different from existing remote work tooling (Slack / Zoom / Google docs / Miro / etc)
The core concept is "rooms" - like Discord voice channels, only way more flexible and built for remote workers. They can be traditional video conferencing, lofi spaces for hanging out, or 2d spaces with spatial audio.
The goal is to give teams a flexible workplace consisting of a series of rooms purpose-built for their workflows.
None of this stuff speaks to me, just looking at your website. Yeah its cute and it's on-par with trends but just give it to me straight in the first sentence- im busy, and already in my workplace so lets start there. If it's chat with a bupbupbup attached, then tell me its a chat with a bupbupbup attached, if you're trying to do 'its a discord, but for programmers and startuppy types ' then say that directly. Shoot…
Looking at the GIF demo, am I correct to understand that you can view Katherine's screen by clicking a button, even if she's not voluntarily sharing? That seems to be a violation of privacy…
This was my immediate read of it as well, and left a bad taste in my mouth. Didn't help that the FAQ mostly addresses variations on "how do I disable the default behavior of letting people join me to meetings without asking."
Honestly I get the intent, but I think the parallel to "open door" in a physical space needs to be made more explicit. Even in meatspace it's not an acceptable practice for a group of people to walk into someone's open office and start a conversation without asking if they are free, first.
None of this stuff speaks to me, just looking at your website. Yeah its cute and it's on-par with trends but just give it to me straight in the first sentence- im busy, and already in my workplace so lets start there. If it's chat with a bupbupbup attached, then tell me its a chat with a bupbupbup attached, if you're trying to do 'its a discord, but for programmers and startuppy types ' then say that directly. Shoot…
None of this stuff speaks to me, just looking at your website. Yeah its cute and it's on-par with trends but just give it to me straight in the first sentence- im busy, and already in my workplace so lets start there. If it's chat with a bupbupbup attached, then tell me its a chat with a bupbupbup attached, if you're trying to do 'its a discord, but for programmers and startuppy types ' then say that directly. Shoot…
There are parallels to Discord; the HN audience knows Discord well and so if we were only trying to appeal to this audience we would probably market it that way. A large chunk (possibly the majority) of our existing users don't know about Discord though and it doesn't make sense to purely market it in relation to that. There are also some noticeable differences, particularly: - integrations are focused on work produc…
I'm sensing that I'm speaking to the person that wrote the overly verbose copy I lamented above. Please hear my cries, just get to the point ok? I'm not trying to be mean or angry or anything like that, but I'm a person with money who buys things, often just to support them. Your website actively thwarted my attempts to support it by the laborious interface. Had this been 3 or 4 years ago, sure I'd be captivated by the design long enough to stick around and try and suss out what the marketing speak and round edges are telling me, but right now in 2022 it looks like everything else out there. If you don't be different, then at least get to the point about why being different doesn't matter.