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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

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Post by Nick5a1 »

jmharvey wrote: post #40
eoghan wrote: post #39

This 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).

I think he meant a live thumbnail size video stream of each person.

Re: Show HN: QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace

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Post by joshmlewis »

yuranlu wrote: post #37
joshmlewis wrote: post #33

I 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…

Hehe and this is great :)

I sat through a brutal pitch practice session this afternoon and I was in the criticism mode.

Re: Show HN: QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace

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Post by plg »

When am I EVER at work and "not busy"??? If that EVER happens it means I have literally run out of things to do at work, and I should go home and do something non-work that I want to do (and then I'm "busy" again). Maybe I'm sick in the head, but for me there is no such thing as "I'm available to be interrupted" time. Interrupt me, fine, and then I have to do a little mental triage, which is more important, what I'm doing now, or what you are interrupting me with? Life is too short and too precious to sit around waiting for people to chat with you. I guess what I'm saying is that there should be "online" and "offline" but I don't get it wrt the yellow neutral symbol.

PPS yes, people find me prickly

Re: Show HN: QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace

#46

Post by yuranlu »

snikch wrote: post #45

I do like this concept, but the interface is awful. I had various issues with contacting the server when signing up / signing in (as other users have reported). I've finally got in and am looking forward to checking out my first chat.

Sorry about the registration/login problems you and a lot of our other users have been seeing. We've been running into a few issues with logging in and our video servers that we didn't find in testing before because of the load from all the HN traffic. We're working as quickly as possible to resolve those.

Re: Show HN: QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace

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Post by jmharvey »

plg wrote: post #44

When am I EVER at work and "not busy"??? If that EVER happens it means I have literally run out of things to do at work, and I should go home and do something non-work that I want to do (and then I'm "busy" again). Maybe I'm sick in the head, but for me there is no such thing as "I'm available to be interrupted" time. Interrupt me, fine, and then I have to do a little mental triage, which is more important, what I'm…

Even if you're busy any time you're at work, in most modern workplaces, engaging with your coworkers is part of the job. Over the course of your workday, there are probably some periods where interruptions are less of a setback. We'd like to see conversations happen during those times, rather than when you're untangling some tricky knot of a problem in your head.

Re: Show HN: QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace

#48

Post by acoyfellow »

pdeuchler wrote: post #20

I feel like this has a lot more potential than the workplace... perhaps a mobile app where people can leave their friends short video messages?

I've been working on something that is very similar to this. http://askbox.me will be released (mobile version being worked on as we speak).

Our product AskBox and QuicklyChat are very similar in essence, but ours is not a desktop application at all- it's browser/mobile based.

Re: Show HN: QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace

#49

Post by hamxiaoz »

jonny_eh wrote: post #35
hamxiaoz wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Nothing wrong. Just that I don't have it on my machine and don't want to install air to try the software.
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