Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

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Post by remotelyyours » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 12:43 PM UTC

Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL
reslash.co

Re: Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

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Post by remotelyyours » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 12:44 PM UTC

I built a video calling app which is the antithesis of Zoom. It's called Reslash.

You can play with everything - backgrounds, gifs, stickers. You can recreate a bar lounge, classroom, office, 80s party and more.

It also has spatial audio - just move closer to talk to people, like you do IRL.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zwXL7ZJra4

You can sign up here: https://reslash.co

I would love to get your feedback on it :)

Re: Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

#3

Post by ianceicys » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 1:11 PM UTC

Very cool to see this. Just tried it out. It's a great visualization.

Re: Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

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Post by remotelyyours » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 1:20 PM UTC

ianceicys wrote: post #3

Very cool to see this. Just tried it out. It's a great visualization.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

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Post by gjvc » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 1:20 PM UTC

This is very good. :-) The zooming user interface is a nice touch. It would work well for meetups where you can see lots of people and move from group to group by dragging the mouse.

Re: Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

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Post by remotelyyours » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 1:22 PM UTC

gjvc wrote: post #5

This is very good. :-) The zooming user interface is a nice touch. It would work well for meetups where you can see lots of people and move from group to group by dragging the mouse.

Thank you! How do you think you can potentially use this?

Re: Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

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Post by remotelyyours » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 1:28 PM UTC

gjvc wrote: post #5

This is very good. :-) The zooming user interface is a nice touch. It would work well for meetups where you can see lots of people and move from group to group by dragging the mouse.

Makes a lot of sense!

Re: Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

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Post by lrossi » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 3:23 PM UTC

Very nice! Has a chess game too! If you could add some lighter board games or 2d pool I might spend some time on it!

What can you tell us about security and privacy? Can you create locked rooms? Zoom had a lot of problems with this in the beginning.

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Post by fooddood » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 3:28 PM UTC

Really cool but why is there no text chat?

Edit: I communicate with my friends IRL primarily through text so having to use audio only is definitely a detractor for me.

Re: Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

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Post by hliyan » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 3:30 PM UTC

I went in expecting to hate it, but I ended up actually liking the idea. Since I'm looking at this from a work perspective, a whiteboard would be nice!