How is this product "Zoom for Developers"? What makes GitDuck like a video conferencing platform which supports 100+ concurrent users? To me "Zoom for x" implies video calling as a primary feature.
Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing
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#12Site and demo won't load for me. The naming and references to 'Zoom' are odd. Instead of "Zoom for developers" maybe explain exactly what that means? Is is screen sharing and group meetings? When you compare yourself to zoom I immediately set the bar that the usability/performance/security/etc. must at least be to their level.
It has the features you would expect in a video call tool — like audio, video chat and screen sharing, but the UX and the integrations were built exclusively for developers. You can easily share your code and do pair programming. We are building integrations for all the IDEs. This enables you to collaborate without screen sharing (so it's faster and and consumes less bandwidth), directly from your IDE and independently of the IDE that other people are using.
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#13Adding a third party dependency for code-sharing seems like a non-starter for large enterprise companies which already have a hard enough time with the first party offering.
[1]: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share/
Re: Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing
#14This name violates the git trademark policy: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw... I do like the “duck” part of it though!
Do GitHub, GitLab, Gitea and other "gits" have an agreement with "the" Git?
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/4175
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1516
In the latter, someone mentioned that a few of these projects were grandfathered in/have written permission from the Software Freedom Conservancy and so may use a portmanteau as the name.
Re: Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing
#15How is this product "Zoom for Developers"? What makes GitDuck like a video conferencing platform which supports 100+ concurrent users? To me "Zoom for x" implies video calling as a primary feature.
But yeah, the point is that you can video chat and we are adding other integrations for developers. Pair programming is one, terminal and server sharing is coming.
Re: Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing
#16How is this product "Zoom for Developers"? What makes GitDuck like a video conferencing platform which supports 100+ concurrent users? To me "Zoom for x" implies video calling as a primary feature.
Re: Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing
#17Site and demo won't load for me. The naming and references to 'Zoom' are odd. Instead of "Zoom for developers" maybe explain exactly what that means? Is is screen sharing and group meetings? When you compare yourself to zoom I immediately set the bar that the usability/performance/security/etc. must at least be to their level.
By Zoom we mean a video chat tool, but built for developers. I think it's hard to have a tool for every type of work and I can think some use cases that Zoom is great (like in big conferences) and others that is really bad (for debugging for example).
We are just focused on having a great experience for developers, so no big conferences or webinar features.
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#18How is this better than Visual Studio (Code) Live Share [1]? Adding a third party dependency for code-sharing seems like a non-starter for large enterprise companies which already have a hard enough time with the first party offering. [1]: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share/
Re: Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing
#19How is this better than Visual Studio (Code) Live Share [1]? Adding a third party dependency for code-sharing seems like a non-starter for large enterprise companies which already have a hard enough time with the first party offering. [1]: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share/
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#20Sounds neat, but I think your name runs afoul of Git's trademark; see https://git-scm.com/trademark