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Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
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Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a fair point, here's a little more information: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pop-9
As alway text and an intro video will help people understand how your product is different from Zoom etc.
As long as it's a micro video (a few seconds with no audio or introduction)
I won't watch a longer video just to understand what random product does.
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#53Your homepage doesn't explain anything about what I should do when I land on it. What's a space? What's going to happen if I create or join one? Why would I want to do this? Or is this intentional and you're soft-launching or just doing some testing? edit: I clicked create a space and you immediately ask for access to my camera.. but there's no explanation of why you're asking for it, or what I'm getting out of it. I…
Your criticism is fair, except the camera access. It's a video chat tool, of course it's going to ask you to use your camera. What do you expect?
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#54Did this used to be an ad/tracking domain? It was listed in one of the adblock lists I use If anyone has an issue visiting the site double check your adblock.
We bought this domain a few months ago, and you're probably right, since Gmail seems to mark our outgoing emails as spam. I'm not very well-versed in how to undo the reputation the previous owners seem to have created for the domain, so if you have any recommendations, please let me know!
look into DMARC ASAP to fix your email
make sure you get taken off freely available spamlists that adblockers sync with
then if I were you I'd talk to a Google exec to speed up the domain reputation cleansing process a bit (get some articles up in your blog asap)
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#55Ok I got to know: how much did you spend to get pop.com?
Yeah, I'm pretty curious because it must've cost in $10k-100k range right? Isn't this the type of vanity purchase that usually happens after you validate your idea with 10,000 customers and you got a round of investment to go big? I would expect a newly launched startup to use getpopapp.info, or used a made-up company name with an acquirable domain.
Easily $1M.
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#56Here's a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/VVt0zCU.jpg In short, you move around in the virtual space and your avatar's head is your webcam feed. There is also positional audio, so your position changes who you hear. User can also apparently spawn screen share windows in the sky. Give it a try, it works and feel better than it looks. It is very similar to what you'd find in a VR chat application but it works surprising…
Love that these types of apps are getting more popular. https://rambly.app (which is similar, but 2D) completely saved https://js.la .
We held our office Christmas party on gather.town. Really neat - a 2D 90s computer game meets Zoom. Haven‘t tried them for productivity yet, but as a social experience they are significantly better than conventional video chats.
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#57Your homepage doesn't explain anything about what I should do when I land on it. What's a space? What's going to happen if I create or join one? Why would I want to do this? Or is this intentional and you're soft-launching or just doing some testing? edit: I clicked create a space and you immediately ask for access to my camera.. but there's no explanation of why you're asking for it, or what I'm getting out of it. I…
Your criticism is fair, except the camera access. It's a video chat tool, of course it's going to ask you to use your camera. What do you expect?
Your landing page says no such thing.
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#58Page only loads for me in incognito mode, normal mode just throws this error: https://imgur.com/a/JlEeyZj
I disabled both privacy blocker extension, but no luck.
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#59If you've ever tried social apps in VR, you'll know that the "social presence" is what sets it apart from a 2D video call, even though you only see avatars of others and not their actual faces. It feels like you're in the same physical room as someone else.
I think Pop is interesting as a bridging solution until VR becomes the main platform for social, because it gives you more of a social presence feel than pure 2D video calls.
I'll for sure try it out in the future with calls and see how it goes. Best of luck with this!
Edit: Typos, it's bed time :D
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Love that these types of apps are getting more popular. https://rambly.app (which is similar, but 2D) completely saved https://js.la .
We held our office Christmas party on gather.town. Really neat - a 2D 90s computer game meets Zoom. Haven‘t tried them for productivity yet, but as a social experience they are significantly better than conventional video chats.
We did our office Halloween party on https://topia.io/ which is very similar. You get to build your environment using "flash"-like components.