It's an interesting idea, but I have a tough time with the premise that people will choose to record a video of themselves for everyday asynchronous communication rather than type a message. There are situations were video or audio deliver more value than text, but what are those situations and are they enough to become a team's main mode of communication? I'm skeptical.
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t think it gets much simpler than “open camera app” > “press record” > “press ‘send video’”
But the service is free, so it’s definitely worth a try
The service might not cost money to try.
When you want to properly evaluate this tool for your team though, there will be quite a bit of time invest.
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#23Love the idea and would have helped me in many remote work situations. Could also be good for documentation. However, from the home page I cannot determine what this really provides over recording a video and sending via slack, telegram, or other methods of chat - I mean, i guess it will allow you to label and comment and put the videos in a hierarchy, but anything else?
I think the medium, that you're supposed to be using video by default rather than text by default, would encourage a team or company to start recording more and tapping at the keyboard less.
I'd compare it to the premise in The Expanse books where there's almost always a light delay for communication so people record video messages by default. When they are on a ship together then they default to audio only. Text is possible in both cases but its bandwidth saving feature isn't required. Now we don't need to save bandwidth anymore perhaps video makes more sense.
Also, if you are a remote worker then playing videos isn't going to annoy an open office full of collegues.
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#24I like the idea, but it's targeted for extroverted people, probably more for marketers and bizz in general, rather than programmers. Introverts like me, will always prefer text conversation over recording myself. Also text is searchable where video is not.
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#25Great idea! Some feedback:
- Too much info required to start (you should streamline signup, job title shouldn't be mandatory IMO)
- Creating a new message should be fast! Meaning:
- title, body & content should be optional, why can't I just send a video?
- clicking Save should automatically upload video - right now video is ignored if Save is clicked mid-recordingRe: Talkshow – Team videos in non-real-time
#26Hi everyone. Founder here. I'm flattered that this popped up on HN. I'm a long-time lurker and browse multiple times a day but seldom post. For some context, you guys are looking at an MVP. It took me a month to build this. The marketing site was done in 2 hours (today, fuelled by coffee). I'm bootstrapping after leaving my corporate job last year. Not trying to make excuses, but I think a lot of questions can simply…
Show HN is reserved for the maker to post what they have made [1]. Who posted this if it was not you? Seems like a marketing ploy... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I didn't know that either, so I posted a couple of Show HNs that is not mine before.
I have read the FAQ and guidelines before, but never stumbled across this page.
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#27Hi everyone. Founder here. I'm flattered that this popped up on HN. I'm a long-time lurker and browse multiple times a day but seldom post. For some context, you guys are looking at an MVP. It took me a month to build this. The marketing site was done in 2 hours (today, fuelled by coffee). I'm bootstrapping after leaving my corporate job last year. Not trying to make excuses, but I think a lot of questions can simply…
Great job launching! Simple but effective landing page, I look forward to seeing the product evolve.
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#28I like the idea, but it's targeted for extroverted people, probably more for marketers and bizz in general, rather than programmers. Introverts like me, will always prefer text conversation over recording myself. Also text is searchable where video is not.
I agree, but targeting those kinds of people is fine I think. Most of my colleagues eat lunch together, but many programmers (my direct colleagues) prefer to lunch in front of their computers. This is typical for many more technical people I think.
In contrast, the other day when I went over to our marketing department I walked in on them practicing the dance moves of some Elvis video together.
I am not saying that either is better, I am just saying that these differences exist and that is fine.
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#29It's an interesting idea, but I have a tough time with the premise that people will choose to record a video of themselves for everyday asynchronous communication rather than type a message. There are situations were video or audio deliver more value than text, but what are those situations and are they enough to become a team's main mode of communication? I'm skeptical.
You can type a message and not work at the same time, or you can record yourself whilst writing code / doing other tasks as ideas come alive as you speak. I think it's beneficial. I guess it depends on who is using it and how. There's always that one person who hates any tools the company provides to attempt to aide productivity.
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#30Great idea! Some feedback: - Too much info required to start (you should streamline signup, job title shouldn't be mandatory IMO) - Creating a new message should be fast! Meaning: - title, body & content should be optional, why can't I just send a video? - clicking Save should automatically upload video - right now video is ignored if Save is clicked mid-recording
Zulip has the only sane threading model among chat clients. Call it a topic rather than a title, but it absolutely should be required IMO.