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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 woah » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 10:09 PM UTC

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…

Hahahaha wow

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

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Post by woah » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 10:11 PM UTC

lksslr wrote: post #181

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?)…

i'm always sad when we are missing on such a list, eventhough I guess we tick most of the boxes you mention... - parties/social events as focus - 3d, but not trying to cater for corporate markets - not a town at all as you obviously spent some time thinking about this topic I'd really appreciate some feedback: https://laptopsinspace.de

I love the laptop concept

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

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Post by circuit_ » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 7:04 AM UTC

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?)…

> I suspect that the winning team will come from the ranks of game developers, not webdevs who cracked open a webrtc tutorial one weekend.

Yeah, like VRChat

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

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Post by max_meethub » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 4:49 PM UTC

Another one for he list. We are working on MeetHub which leverages Google Meet video.

It's designed for organizations that use Google Workplace and allows you to see all the calls that are happening across your organization on a map and spontaneously drop in on calls.

The idea is to bring back some of the Geospatial awareness of being co-located.

All feedback welcome.

https://meethub.io

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

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Post by victorevector » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 5:23 PM UTC

rorykoehler wrote: post #142

victorevector wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Infantile is a compliment. It suggests creativity and pushing the boundaries. Normally old curmudgeons think young things are empty and stupid because they don’t understand.

Infantile means you don’t have a developed prefrontal cortex and is definitely not a positive description. Creative and playful are not the same concept.

1. My point was to undermine the negative connotation associated with the word infantile. Since when did having an undeveloped prefrontal cortex become absolutely negative? 2. Creative and playful are highly correlated.

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

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Post by patcon » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

silicon2401 wrote: post #150

patcon wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your comment! fwiw, pls note that your critique would apply equally to any concern that society wishes to "push up the stack". Collectivizing challenges (rather than individualizing them) is what pretty much all societal progress is built on... But that process will always look like people saying "this isn't my fault" and focussing on "something they can't change [by themselves]". Anyhow, not saying your i…

We probably just have different viewpoints, and the "fuzzy edges" may be areas we don't agree. I am very aware of what my views are, whereas you imply I may be unaware. I find it useful to not waste too much time worrying about challenges and instead focus on solutions and opportunity. This has allowed me to come from childhood poverty into an adulthood that successfully provides me the life I want, without hangups o…

Interesting. Perhaps you're right of disagreement. Yes, the world is definitely filled with two sorts of thinkers along this axis we're alluding to, that's for sure.

My analysis: A focus on "challenge" is the framing someone takes when they're more enamoured with the infinitely wide possibility space around any system (* raises hand * guilty), while "solutions/actions" tend to be valourized when someone is more interested in the point of collapse of the possibility space, where possibilities condense into reality.

Both are the right and wrong tools at the same time imho. Too much of either is dysfunctional. I'm certainly dysfunctional in some situations with my predispositions, but superhuman in others. I assume there are also some places where you feel maladapted (though perhaps your neurotype doesn't translate this into uncertainty of your values, as mind does).

Honestly, I feel much of the work of a holding societies together is sorting out ways to allow these two types to work together, and reciprocate value between their styles. It's a tension that exists in all systems at all levels of organizing matter (eg. brains navigated this with lateralization into hemispheres), and society isn't special.

We're both wrong and right, and just need to at least see that as true, and maybe not try to claim too much authority for our own camp. (Maybe ubiquitous social welfare IS claiming too much authority.)

Anyhow, thanks. I appreciate your perspective, and it humbles mine.