I love this. It is (or will be) "the street" from Snow Crash come to life.
Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
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Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#92Your 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…
I gave access to my camera and everything, but I didn't understand what this product does until I saw this screenshot in another thread: https://i.imgur.com/VVt0zCU.jpg I think it would be really helpful if you could see your own avatar.
This is a great point. Connection process should be an array of the founder's faces with chat blurbs welcoming them to connect their camera with your avatar in the middle with a preview of your camera!
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#93Hi jsherwani - your site is being blocked by this (very popular) DNS blocklist that I use in my Pi-Hole: https://oisd.nl/
I'm guessing the domain might have previously been used for spam or something before you bought it.
It looks like you can start the removal process here: https://oisd.nl/?p=fp
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since our company is personally bootstrapped by me, answering this will divulge more of my personal financial situation than I would like to share. However, I can say that I worked with https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ted0 who was AMAZING at helping find and acquire the domain. I can strongly recommend him as an amazing person to work with for anyone interested in buying a high-value domain.
can also vouch for Teddy. super helpful for getting modest.com back from pypl
Can you or GP comment on how Teddy was able to help?
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#95Your 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?
> It's a video chat tool, of course it's going to ask you to use your camera.
You only know this because you saw the HN headline.
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#96Fun fact pop.com used to be owned by Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks. Back in 2001 the company i worked at were involved in developing an identity for them for some tv platform. It never went anywhere.
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. I mean exactly what I said. Audio is unnecessary and means I have to stop everything else I'm doing. And so does anyone else in the same room unless I can find headphones. And 3 or 4 seconds is ample time to demonstrate that specific aspect that is hard to demonstrate with the written word.
Sorry, I didn't mean to come across that way. I understand how you would like it, but personally I'm happy to play a video with sounds if it explains things quickly and clearly.
99/100 times I won't play the video. I'll only play a video if i already know what product is & does, and I want to learn more.
Off topic, but your both Andy.
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#98Great! Nothing like a pandemic to push tech forward.
This would work well with a physical controllable positionable telepresence device as well:
Move around in a shared real space together.
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#99Hi jsherwani - your site is being blocked by this (very popular) DNS blocklist that I use in my Pi-Hole: https://oisd.nl/ I'm guessing the domain might have previously been used for spam or something before you bought it. It looks like you can start the removal process here: https://oisd.nl/?p=fp
Thank you! Looking into this now...
Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
#100Hi jsherwani - your site is being blocked by this (very popular) DNS blocklist that I use in my Pi-Hole: https://oisd.nl/ I'm guessing the domain might have previously been used for spam or something before you bought it. It looks like you can start the removal process here: https://oisd.nl/?p=fp
Hmmm I got this response when I submitted the form:
pop.com is not blocked by this blocklist
Probable causes:
- An other blocklist blocking it? - Regex? - An older version of this list contained it? > Make sure you are using the latest version.
Not sure what happened!