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

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

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Post by vyrotek »

serf wrote: post #199
vyrotek wrote: post #11

Nice work. It looks like a fun new take of The Palace Chat!

it's just missing the Dollz and DBZ characters blasting scripted macros everywhere to ruin the experience of others through audiovisual spam. man I loved The Palace. I wrote a ton of IPTSCRAE as a youth for it -- both server side and client side. The Palace quickly taught one why it was a bad idea to allow clients to draw programmatically. Many a rooms ruined by script kiddies that got taught how to ruin every bodies…

Haha, Indeed. I loved scripting! Pretending to be the server "admin" messaging the room from a chat-bubble in the top left was the best thing ever. Well, yeah that and laser shows.

So much time spent there. And on Comic Chat.

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

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Post by theodpHN »

Nice job - demo video literally made me smile. Seems something like this might be neat for virtual attendees of Meetups and other conferences (e.g., for pre- and post-presentation discussions). Also seems like kids would enjoy the this-isn't-your-parents-WebEx/TEAMS-video-chat interface. Good luck!

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Post by Folcon »

remotelyyours wrote: post #207
Folcon wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool product =)... Just out of curiosity, are you using distance from avatars to lower sound? So more distant conversations in say a party setting could be audible, but quieter? That would be a key distinction between discord and this in my mind.

You're right!

Really neat then =)... Is that an area you've had to spend a lot of time in? Getting that multiple groups conversing where you can overhear / swap conversations or widen the conversation as well has have short sub-conversations is a really great dynamic that's sorely missing in this medium.

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Post by elialbert »

Kortaggio wrote: post #193
woah wrote: post #106

I was interested in building something like this when COVID-19 first hit. I think it's still a space with a lot of potential, but there are now a huge number of competitors. I made a spreadsheet and add to it each time I see one of these products come up on HN: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R5DXWtz4H7eIT5VbGYJE... There are currently at least 18 projects operating in this space. - The majority (maybe all?)…

A few more for your list: https://altvr.com/ https://borrel.app/ https://calla.chat https://cozyroom.xyz https://cubechat.io/ https://gather.town/ https://happyhour.ianwdavis.com/ https://here.fm https://hopin.to https://icebreaker.video/ https://makespace.fun http://mcparks.us https://metaversehq.com/v/room https://mixaba.com/ https://party.vipshek.com https://rally.video/ https://rambly.app/ https://recroom.com/ ht…

this is incredible. do you know of any that involve top down animated characters and proximity _text_, not voice, chatting?

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

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Post by chadlavi »

This is cool, but you might want to adjust the feature lists in your pricing section! Since items are crossed out on the free plan, it would make a lot more sense for both lists to have the same features. It's confusing that it says "No additional guests" on the free plan, but then that is crossed out; you could misread this to mean "NOT no additional guests", which is kind of nonsense but might lead someone to believe that they _can_ have unlimited guests on free.

Similarly, you have "Unlimited meeting minutes" listed and crossed out on free, but you don't even offer that on the paid plan, only a 240min max. You probably shouldn't tease unlimited meeting minutes like that.

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

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Post by remotelyyours »

chadlavi wrote: post #216

This is cool, but you might want to adjust the feature lists in your pricing section! Since items are crossed out on the free plan, it would make a lot more sense for both lists to have the same features. It's confusing that it says "No additional guests" on the free plan, but then that is crossed out; you could misread this to mean "NOT no additional guests", which is kind of nonsense but might lead someone to belie…

Valid feedback. Reworking this. Thank you!

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

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Post by remotelyyours »

scythmic_waves wrote: post #28
dkersten wrote: post #18

Its cool, I especially like that presentation example. However, animated GIFs and stickers would drive me insane. I already can't stand animated stuff in slack as it is, so distracting.

I also find that stuff distracting in slack, but I think that's because I'm trying to stay on top of "work stuff". I don't think it'd be so distracting if I was just hanging with friends or something.

You can turn it off! You can personalize the space to make it work for you. That's one of our key differentiators. We don't want to force you into a single format.
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