I 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.
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.
Why use this when I can record a video from photobooth and upload it to Slack, where all majority of team conversation already happens for the majority of tech companies with remote workers?
Cool idea but doesn't need a separate app.
Great 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-recordingFor context yongfook is one of the origional 'digital nomads' from before people started calling themselves that with a straight face. He did the excellent opensourcefood.com and i suspect he has more of an idea of what makes a good product than the majority of clichéd responses on this thread.
Love 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?
What I'd like to see (which would likely make me use it) is an integration inside of Gmail. I click one button to record and then I send that email. The no 1 value for me would be that it's much faster than writing. And it's also easier to talk while walking to the subway than to write. So create that and I'm in!
Spent like 30 seconds trying to click the 35 second video on the home page trying to see the video with the cute girl or any of the links on the page image.. boy that was disappointing
team videos...not a single video on the homepage :(
If ever there was a product that demanded an explainer video on the homepage... this is it.
This is a perfect example for software that tries to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
It can be done with whatever: - record video (notebook / smartphone / ...) - send / share / embed into some other software (messenger / wiki / ...)
You are obviously good at marketing stuff (to people who don't know better) and monetizing stuff that is basically free.
That cries for an award with a title like "silver ferengi medal" ;-)
There's also https://standups.io which has been on the market for over a year, has traction, lots of cool features, an iOS app an Android app, and Slack integration.
Hi 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 be answered with "it's one month of work, by one dude, and it launched today" :)
It's live now. That's the easy part over with - the hard stuff begins now!