Talkshow – Team videos in non-real-time(talkshow.team) |
Talkshow – Team videos in non-real-time(talkshow.team) |
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!
Something I was looking for that you could work towards adding is a demo video showing how this might be used / what the experience looks like. I know I can sign up for free to try, but I don't even know what I'm signing up for.
Erm. Who is "middle1" then and why did they post this as "Show HN"?
Oh and then even if I continue, corporate DNS is blocking you due to "security threat".
I really don't have the resources for the level of conspiracy you are implying :)
In contrast, the other day when I went over to our marketing department I walked in on them practicing the dance moves of some Elvis video together.
I am not saying that either is better, I am just saying that these differences exist and that is fine.
Transcripts could help there.
Cool idea but doesn't need a separate app.
What's easier? Recording a video & drag-drop into the app that 100% of our team communication already relies on - or convince our PM to sign up our 30 people team for an app that does it out of the box.
Also, this function comes out of the box on Slack mobile.
- 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-recordingHowever, 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?
This V1 allows you to set up channels, post threads and hierarchical comments, all with (or without) videos attached that you can record through your browser or phone. There's also a "play all" button that allows you to sit back and watch all videos in a thread in succession.
Discussion was an obvious place to start but I'll be looking into other areas next. For example presentation / persuasion - how do you present a deck and convince a remote team in non-real-time? Just blasting an email with an attachment never gets the point across properly.
Hope this sort of explains where my head is at!
Or a #standup channel where people send in videos, that's what we do.
I'd compare it to the premise in The Expanse books where there's almost always a light delay for communication so people record video messages by default. When they are on a ship together then they default to audio only. Text is possible in both cases but its bandwidth saving feature isn't required. Now we don't need to save bandwidth anymore perhaps video makes more sense.
Also, if you are a remote worker then playing videos isn't going to annoy an open office full of collegues.
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" ;-)
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
But this service is free so that’s a big plus to just give it the old “try”!
I suppose I did something long ago when my parents told me to write home and I said they could use my PC and modem and use compuserve.
Sigh.
I inadvertently read that phrase with the voice of Gina from Brooklyn 99 (Maybe because I've been binging that show). Here in Mexico a lot of people almost exclusively communicate with each other (ab)using Whatsapp audio messages and I get so angry when somebody sends me an audio message. Just type!
I gave up sending them to one person (who sadly needed them the most) as I'd got to the stage of having to ask he view them twice so he didn't mindlessly re-ask the exact same questions that were clearly answered in the video!
None of this is insurmountable, but I wonder if it will cause inertia in experimentation and uptake?
Good luck, either way - love the initiative the founder has shown. :)
They work so well because the barrier is extremely low: it's literally a single interaction, keep the "button" pressed and the message is sent automatically upon releasing it.
And yet nobody was using voice messages when you had to: - Tap "attach" - Tap "audio" - Tap "record" - Tap "confirm" Or, worse, use a separate app and "share" to WhatsApp.
UX is important. I assume this service is based on a similar principle.