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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 ianceicys »

icelancer wrote: post #41
jakecadams wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey! this is Jake, Mike's co-founder. We don't currently have a windows app and only support Zoom users. If that's you, you can email me: jake [at] grain [dot] co If not, we will be working on building out support for windows /linux in coming months [we use electron] as well as other VC providers.

Yeah, I am a Windows (mostly) Zoom (always) user for the purposes of Grain. I'd be willing to use iPad Pro / Retina Macbook to test though, looks like something I could really use. I'll email you.

Filled out the survey too, same result. Really looking forward to your windows client being available! Thank you!

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

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Post by justusthane »

faeyanpiraat wrote: post #56

The "Trusted by great teams" section of your homepage lists companies like "Slack", how did you convince them to start using your product?

Whenever I see these, I suspect it's more along the lines of someone at Slack is using this product.

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

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Post by akjssdk »

faeyanpiraat wrote: post #56

The "Trusted by great teams" section of your homepage lists companies like "Slack", how did you convince them to start using your product?

It is probably someone with a Slack corporate email address who signed up. At least, that is how most startups seem to define 'used by'...

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

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Post by exotree »

justusthane wrote: post #62
faeyanpiraat wrote: post #56

The "Trusted by great teams" section of your homepage lists companies like "Slack", how did you convince them to start using your product?

Whenever I see these, I suspect it's more along the lines of someone at Slack is using this product.

This is a correct way to interpret it. Just an email address sign up is usually used as enough justification to make the statement.

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

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Post by yllus »

exotree wrote: post #64
justusthane wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whenever I see these, I suspect it's more along the lines of someone at Slack is using this product.

This is a correct way to interpret it. Just an email address sign up is usually used as enough justification to make the statement.

I guess we only have anecdotal evidence to go on here, but except for exactly one case I've always seen the organizations I work for get and wait for a positive response to their request before they display our logo. Does everyone else's experience really differ on this?

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

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Post by eastbayjake »

Very cool stuff, two clarifying questions:

- Does Grain require access to the Zoom API to work? (Is there some other screen capture / scraping at work?) Any known issues/restrictions with using this with enterprise Zoom accounts?

- Can I record a Zoom meeting I was invited to, or just ones where I own the invite?

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

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Post by Colex »

yllus wrote: post #65
exotree wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a correct way to interpret it. Just an email address sign up is usually used as enough justification to make the statement.

I guess we only have anecdotal evidence to go on here, but except for exactly one case I've always seen the organizations I work for get and wait for a positive response to their request before they display our logo. Does everyone else's experience really differ on this?

I have had exactly the same experience in my previous (and in my current) startup. I would never add the logo of a client without their consent. (maybe some don't follow that logic)

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

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Post by specialist »

wmeredith wrote: post #60
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

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).

Let the sharecroppers do all the research, development, marketing, refinement. Then steal their thunder.

Been there, been done like that.

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

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Post by sureklix »

nfc wrote: post #34

I was building something with a very similar same feature set (minus the sharing publicly) for the last few weeks to add as a feature to my platform, just less polished as befits a 1 person team with no funding :D. There are a lot of things to be done to improve the utility of videoconferences once finished. The information is obviously less dense and parseable but also more rich. It's inspiring to see other projects…

Good luck! I was wondering what backend do you guys use for Speech-to-text? As a ML guy I'm quite interested to learn what people experiment with. Cheers:)
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