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Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making

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Re: Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making

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Post by andybak »

Ken_Adler wrote: post #25
edmundsauto wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you talk about the value you've gotten out of doing this? It sounds very interesting, but also fairly effort-intensive. Does it also help you remember meeting takeaways, because you're actively reviewing your recent day or two?

I do it mostly so I don't have to repeat myself. :) I use the clips so that others can gain from the kernals of wisdom those clips provide... without having to commit to some portion of an hour to find the kernal themselves. Saves everyone time and enforces compliance to decisions made ) Also, of course, by manually editing down a deeply technical discussion from an hour to 20 minutes helps me REALLY listen and under…

I can't help but think you've found a more complicated and less efficient way to achieve the same thing as writing up an off-the cuff talk afterwards.

Personally I loathe the spoken word as a medium for efficient transmission of information. Reading and skim-reading is an order of magnitude faster.

And writing up something I've spoken is the perfect way to focus and clarify.

Re: Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making

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Post by raskilinov »

Hi Mike, What particular advantages do you see between grain clips vs written minutes from a meeting?

In my field there are many instances where an item on the agenda is talked through for 15mins and the minute-taker can summarise into a couple of lines/paragraph.

I'm struggling to see how a video clip can deliver a similar summarisation, unless someone has vocally summarised at the end for the clip.

Re: Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making

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Post by raskilinov »

Hi Mike, What particular advantages do you see between grain clips vs written minutes from a meeting?

In my field there are many instances where an item on the agenda is talked through for 15mins and the minute-taker can summarise into a couple of lines/paragraph.

Re: Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making

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Post by Waterluvian »

mgadams3 wrote: post #45
MichaelApproved wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you concerned that zoom will gradually add these features to their core products?

Not really, Zoom has gotten to where they are by focusing on what they're world class at, which is reliable connectivity. I don't see them changing focus on anything but keeping the lead they have that made them so successful. This DNA has always been the core of Zoom since Eric branched out of Cisco.

Maybe I'm being pedantic but isn't it your job to be concerned about risks like this? It sounds like your answer is "we don't need a plan because the volcano won't erupt." I'm seeing people responding with a list of volcanos that erupted without warning.

Approached more technically, I'd ask, do you have future plans to stratify what back ends your product will work on, particularly if zoom stops being an option?

Re: Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making

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Post by DigitalSea »

tiborsaas wrote: post #47
mgadams3 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cultivating an app ecosystem on their platform is a publicly stated goal of Zoom. Cutting off any start-up building on it would be counter-productive and lead to their competitors gaining the advantage of innovation on their platform instead. See: https://marketplace.zoom.us/competition

SoundCloud said the same and they turned their back on the developer community. It probably happened to many other platforms too

Twitter has famously done the same thing a few times as well.

Re: Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making

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Post by DonHopkins »

mgadams3 wrote: post #43
perlgeek wrote: post #40

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Since you built your product based on another vendor's platform, are you concerned that they might cut off access? Do you have any contingency plans for that?

Cultivating an app ecosystem on their platform is a publicly stated goal of Zoom. Cutting off any start-up building on it would be counter-productive and lead to their competitors gaining the advantage of innovation on their platform instead. See: https://marketplace.zoom.us/competition

What features does Zoom's developer API support?

Which do you use, and how do you like them?

What other features do you hope they support in the future?

Re: Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making

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Post by oars »

mgadams3 wrote: post #6

Hey HN. I'm Mike co-founder/CEO of Grain. I decided to start Grain b/c I was tired of requesting access to recordings of convos and repeating myself when I could just share the part of a recording instead. Our team built something pretty cool that I honestly didn't see coming when we started. Happy to answer any questions and thanks for the support.

How did you convince a company like Slack to start using your product?

Re: Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making

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Post by wmeredith »

mgadams3 wrote: post #43
perlgeek wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since you built your product based on another vendor's platform, are you concerned that they might cut off access? Do you have any contingency plans for that?

Cultivating an app ecosystem on their platform is a publicly stated goal of Zoom. Cutting off any start-up building on it would be counter-productive and lead to their competitors gaining the advantage of innovation on their platform instead. See: https://marketplace.zoom.us/competition

Twitter used to say the same stuff and they cut their dev community off at the knees once they got big enough (mostly because of said community building out their feature set).
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