Ho hum. Another chat app.
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#63Why are there so many negative comments? And most of these aren't even constructive criticisms. Do you have any suggestions to give the founding team? Any constructive criticism to offer? I'm sure they'd like to hear it. On the other hand, snide remarks provide hardly any value to anyone.
I would like to suggest that the founding team finds a problem to solve.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. ;) There is a Mac desktop client but the app will be available on the web as well.
I am wondering you can release a windows client. Web is acceptable but not perfect (i.e. cannot provide notifications). you can build it on .NET. Don't care about XP, FUCK THESE XP USERS.
You can provide notifications on the web. Support maybe limited to some browsers only but it is possible.
This works in Chrome: http://jsfiddle.net/dandv/wT26x/1/
I think Safari has a system for this too: https://developer.apple.com/notifications/safari-push-notifi...
Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/notification
CanIUse stats: http://caniuse.com/notifications
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#65The application is quite nice looking, and I really like the @ integration/notification. That said, I really hope 11MB splash videos on home pages doesn't become a trend.
Unfortunately, the video background trend is definitely a thing. Paypal's been doing it for at least a couple weeks and I've seen at least one other site doing the same.
This might even be worse than the old autoplaying music embedded on every page fad. Hell, at least you could mute it.
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#66What's the business model?
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. ;) There is a Mac desktop client but the app will be available on the web as well.
I am wondering you can release a windows client. Web is acceptable but not perfect (i.e. cannot provide notifications). you can build it on .NET. Don't care about XP, FUCK THESE XP USERS.
Although it's not quite the same as a native app, we already have built in support for desktop notifications on all browsers that support them, including some older WebKits.
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#68Hey all! Co-founder of HUM here, and happy to answer any questions you may have about it. We've been cranking away on this product for the better part of the past year and are very excited to be rolling it out over the coming weeks.
It looks (very much) like Google Hangouts in your trailer video.
Right now, hangouts is pretty much installed on every new android phone, so i assume you have some kind of edge on hangouts to gain traction on Android?
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#69It appears that you're targeting corporate users, am I right? I would guess that individuals would probably just use something like Google Hangout or e-mail or some other chat client.
For many corporations, I think one of the biggest issues is having their internal chats hosted in the "cloud". Maybe I'm assuming too much here, but i'm guessing all of this is happening on your servers. I'd highly recommend allowing people to deploy this service on one of their own servers and also providing some sort of security guarantee. Then some of the bigger companies might be willing to move to it, and I could see how this would be a joy to use over IM/e-mail/IRC/maybe even HipChat?
Anyway, good luck on your product. Hope your launch goes well! :)
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#70Sounds like Google wave, but a little less intense and a lot more lean.
I had the same thought.
Team i was on at the time made a concerted effort to use wave, and we were just starting to be pretty productive on it when google axed it.