I think I met this team once; while I was a little dubious at first, seeing how they laid out the page makes me much more interested. I like the concept and I think our team will give it a go.
Show HN: QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace
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Re: Show HN: QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace
#32Why don't you have a video showing exactly how the chat looks and works? I don't want to download something to see how it works.
Same here, I downloaded, and it requires Adobe Air, then I stopped...
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#33I like this idea, good pitch on the page, but it's absolutely critical that it just works. I installed it, opened it, at first it wasn't obvious if I had to make an account, use an existing service, or what, but I finally noticed the create an account and tried to make account in which it says couldn't connect with video server, I tried again and it says account already registered with no apparent change in the form.
After this I closed out, and under any other circumstances I'll never go back and try again. GChat seems to solve this problem for me already but I was tempted to try this out but it just didn't work with the flow and interaction on the first try and to me that's a deal breaker.
So tl;dr for you and anyone else, your product has to absolutely work and must initially make sense flow wise for your first time users. Especially if you're in a market that has many other solutions because getting me to go back find the application and try again sometime in the future is going to be really hard.
Re: Show HN: QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace
#34Re: Show HN: QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace
#35Why don't you have a video showing exactly how the chat looks and works? I don't want to download something to see how it works.
Same here, I downloaded, and it requires Adobe Air, then I stopped...
What's wrong with Air? I've used other apps built on it and they work fine (such as balsamiq).
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#36Awesome idea. We previously had audio/video quality problems with all tools but Skype. How do you solve this problem? As I understand providing high quality video and audio is still quite a bit challenge. Is there any only mic version? Or do you think it defeats the purpose? Finally, a small suggestion, make question lines bold in the FAQ which will make it much easier to read.
Since it's built on Adobe Air (basically, Flash), I assume they're using its built-in P2P video library. I've used it before and found it to be quite good. It's what Chatroulette, or any other web based video chat app uses.
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#37I like this idea, good pitch on the page, but it's absolutely critical that it just works. I installed it, opened it, at first it wasn't obvious if I had to make an account, use an existing service, or what, but I finally noticed the create an account and tried to make account in which it says couldn't connect with video server, I tried again and it says account already registered with no apparent change in the form.…
Sorry to hear that the account creation process didn't work out for you. Based on your description and our server logs, I have a good sense of what broke for you, and it's a case we've never run into before when testing, but we're working on fixing that bug now.
I agree that it's absolutely critical that it just works, and in this case, it didn't just work for you. From all the traffic today, we found a bunch of new bugs that didn't show up in our testing, so we're working as fast as we can to fix them and fix our testing process so we find similar issues.
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#38I really like this idea, but is it possible to include an easy way to do screen sharing as well? I want to easily describe the error that I have on my screen to my co-workers.
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#39This is fantastic. I love the status indicators. I would go one step further and show little, live thumbnails of each person on your contact list—sure, you might get caught picking your nose, but that could happen when working with people in real life, and I see these tools as trying to make remote working as real as possible. Live thumbnails would be a very natural way to check if someone is at their computer, on the phone, too busy or stressed looking to disrupt.
Re: Show HN: QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace
#40This is fantastic. I love the status indicators. I would go one step further and show little, live thumbnails of each person on your contact list—sure, you might get caught picking your nose, but that could happen when working with people in real life, and I see these tools as trying to make remote working as real as possible. Live thumbnails would be a very natural way to check if someone is at their computer, on th…
Live thumbnails are in development. We're working on balancing privacy with utility (we don't want to accidentally expose the text of emails, for example).