[tomglynch]

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?

[fookyong]

Hi Tom, nope you've pretty much got the gist of the MVP feature set right there.

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!

[dmonn]

So do Slack threads with videos in them.

Or a #standup channel where people send in videos, that's what we do.

[folex]

What do you use to record videos?

[VvR-Ox]

Have you seen people lately who don't have a smartphone with them? :-P

[tylermauthe]

Agree with this sentiment - the workflows available in slack for doing this would be clunky. I have a phone but I would rather use a laptop camera for some discussions - e.g.: doing demos.

[dmonn]

Photo Booth or my Phone...

[bogle]

I think the medium, that you're supposed to be using video by default rather than text by default, would encourage a team or company to start recording more and tapping at the keyboard less.

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.