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Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups

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Re: Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups

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It's probably one of our top 5 or top 10 most requested features. All I can say is coming soon. Any way we can let you know when we release it?

Excellent! Glad to hear. Yes, what's the best way to sign up? I already registered, I think, so sending a message thru the help function?

Sign up is good. I'll make sure you're on the list!

Re: Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups

#53

Congrats. Just curious what is your max on concurrent users?

We actually haven't tested that limit yet. We have seen atleast 200 people on at the same time across multiple rooms. The system didn't break or lag with that number but lets see. Does that help?

Re: Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups

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Do you support end to end encryption? I understand that to get thru NATs you have to have relay servers. For companies, they may want privacy guarantees.

Great question, we are end-to-end encrypted and that we do not store any data from our users video sessions. We're also exploring SSO. We also worked with MasterCard and Amazon and while initially there were questions around privacy, we got through it in the end. The bigger problem ironically is corporate VPNs that tend to block video/mic access from certain applications.

Re: Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups

#56

I looked at it a bit and am pretty stoked. Not sure how the reliability will work across different internet speeds and countries but will definitely try. Main desire: ability to name tables. In running workshops, sometimes each table will have a theme and then people who want to talk about that theme can join the table. Would make it easier for people to know what is being discussed at a table before joining. One fac…

Named tables would also lead to tribal separation, which may not be the best.

Re: Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups

#59

I think we've all seen various attempts to solve this issue over the years, but no one has quite figured out a decent UX to replicate the party experience. I'm glad to see you haven't gone the common & kind of intellectually-lazy route of moving an avatar around a virtual space. Am I far off in thinking that the core challenge would be replicating the transition between sub-groups? That moment where you'd like to mov…

Houseparty’s culture is to mostly just enter and leave as you please. It is nice. None of what you described as issues.

Similarly in a remote coworking community I started in 2019, we have also settled on a culture of not worrying about “politeness” when it comes to coming and going. It is so much better.

Of course like you say, to have all of this work for people across the board is a much harder feat.

Re: Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups

#60

I think we've all seen various attempts to solve this issue over the years, but no one has quite figured out a decent UX to replicate the party experience. I'm glad to see you haven't gone the common & kind of intellectually-lazy route of moving an avatar around a virtual space. Am I far off in thinking that the core challenge would be replicating the transition between sub-groups? That moment where you'd like to mov…

> kind of intellectually-lazy I think that was rather uncalled for. My own use of avatars was a result of a lot of specific design decisions, around dissatisfaction with webcam video, i.e. the incongruity between the theoretical reason for why it's there ("to provide eye-contact!") and the reality that it fails at that task.

It was not a personal attack. Makes sense some people won’t like avatars in a world. I don’t think I’d like it either even though I wouldn’t word it like OP.

Good luck with your project.

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