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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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Post by lksslr »

ConnorBowlan wrote: post #22

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…

Our project "laptopsinspace" shifts the whole experience into 3D which makes it feel a lot more natural. https://twitter.com/NeeshStudio/status/1279130738500272129

For bigger events, there is an elevator, that takes you flying from room to room: https://twitter.com/NeeshStudio/status/1286010155772108802

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

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Post by lksslr »

Wistar wrote: post #4
alfonsodev wrote: post #3

Interesring! Enabling the social dynamics that naturally happen when large groups gather together, is something defenitevelly needed and the existing video conf solutions are too rigid to implement anything similar. Good job!

In his 1998 book, "Interactive Excellence," Edwin Schlossberg identified one key aspect of large group dynamics: A sense of audience. Particularly how much more enjoyable it is at, say, a concert, when you can experience—see and hear—others in the audience. I have yet to see any remote technology that comes anywhere close to representing that golden sense of audience.

wholeheartedly agree! our project focuses on that part specifically - in a 3d environment https://twitter.com/NeeshStudio/status/1280492070805929984

for the last two bigger events we had a live-stream with the audience watching (together) on the big screen

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

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Post by redbar0n »

Initially positive to the idea, but to me this seems ill-concieved.

The tagline: > Stop taking turns to speak. Hop in and out of conversations with one click. Hear the chatter of tables around you.

To me it seems like adding the worst parts of social spaces like pubs/nightclubs etc.:

- Noise: People talking over each other. - Multi-tasking. So it’s hard to keep a decent conversation going. - Noise: Can hardly hear what people around you are saying.

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

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Post by Ali_Jiwani »

e1ghtSpace wrote: post #69
obiefernandez wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm. I'm not sure if maybe I'm not using it correctly or what, but I can't actually hear people that have joined. (Might just be they're not talking.)

Confirmed working now. Yes that was me. :)

haha was the party fun?

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

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Post by Ali_Jiwani »

redbar0n wrote: post #75

Initially positive to the idea, but to me this seems ill-concieved. The tagline: > Stop taking turns to speak. Hop in and out of conversations with one click. Hear the chatter of tables around you. To me it seems like adding the worst parts of social spaces like pubs/nightclubs etc.: - Noise: People talking over each other. - Multi-tasking. So it’s hard to keep a decent conversation going. - Noise: Can hardly hear wh…

Did you try it out?

You can turn down or off the background chatter and choose to have a private table so no one can hear you or join your conversation. Also the background chatter is never high enough to disrupt ongoing conversations.

I'd suggest giving it a shot and seeing how it goes. The founding team is also pretty extroverted, so we really built this for socializing first.

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

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Post by Ali_Jiwani »

TheAdamAndChe wrote: post #56
jimkleiber wrote: post #44

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.

interesting point

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

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Post by Ali_Jiwani »

greggman3 wrote: post #65

I'm curious why you decided to target businesses instead of people. In other words, the pitch on your site doesn't sound like a place I'd go as a normal person to have a party with some friends. It sounds like a service a company pays for to host branded events. Targeting everyone seems like the explosive growth trajectory where as targeting businesses does not, at least to me. If some venue uses this they'd advertis…

Our team thinks and builds consumer first - we're all fairly young and artistic (some of us were musicians, standup comedians, and prank show hosts in our past lives.)

We started by telling bars this could be a way to talk to your customers during COVID but they wouldn't budge. We then saw business uptake first and thought, this is what we should do, so we decided to go down this route.

Through YC we have been exploring different use cases and thus kept the platform open for anyone to try. I think what we realized is the money is in large conferences and remote teams. There will always be a free tier for consumers and smaller communities, but b2b or b2b2c seems to be the direction to take this.

I'd love to hear more ideas from you but definitely agree a fully open funnel isn't right.

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