Hi guys! Come and try out our app for your next Zoom sessions. It's for free and it's fun.
We build a simple set of tools that can be used with any video communication app or streaming platform (Zoom, Google Meeting, etc.), through a virtual audio device and virtual camera, sound and visual effects are injected directly into your streaming video. Our MVP requires macOS Big Sur 11.0 +
The app provides a reaction board (with memes and sound effects), collections of background music and transition videos, set of timers and dice, and a feature to share multimedia files directly on your streaming video.
I can't think of a single business-oriented use where this would be appropriate, so perhaps some sort of use in kids education or targeted at a teenage audience?
The language on the site definitely suggests this is aimed at education. The HN title however, is more ambiguous and suggests it could be used in a professional context.
You get it right! We aim at online teachers and online instructors, however some of our initial users have been using it business-oriented and suggested that there are quite some creative ways to use the app.
I think this would have greatly helped my youngest, 6 at the time, stay more engaged during virtual learning in last year's lockdown. His teachers, who did a better job than we had any right to expect, quickly figured out some little tricks from screen-sharing 3rd party websites with fun dancing animations for "brain breaks" but nothing integrated with their regular lesson video call like this.
I hope you're able to get this adopted by individual teachers who can lead the way. School district IT isn't the most cutting edge (though, again, ours did a great job of adapting fast and standardizing on some very good resources like Zearn).
Thank you for your kind words. Yes, actually that was one of the reasons we came up with the app, my co-founder has an 8 year old daughter and I remember she said "No kids want to be on Zoom". While Zoom is terrific for our remote team, we hope to bring something more for teaching and learning. Definitely when the time comes, we will approach schools districts and hopefully over the challenge of school district IT!
Seeing a well-dressed person dancing with the superimposed image of cat dancing and the text "PARTY" along with lots of bright colors and the word "FUN" made me reach for the little "x" button within seconds of opening your website.
The rest of the landing page seems squarely geared at educators giving lessons via video calls.
With that in mind I think the landing page set a good tone for what and who they're trying to sell to, and that doesn't include "meetings between peers in a professional context"
You get it just right! I guess the HN title I use is a bit confusing. Actually it's based on some of our initial users suggestions, they used the app as business-oriented and suggested that there are quite some creative ways to apply it.
I share the same sentiment, however I scrolled through and I feel this is the experience that we are heading towards in meetings. Excuse the memes there, but ability to blend multimedia in meetings can help a lot.
I conduct webinars every month and I would love to have the ability to play soft background music easily during intervals or fire up a PiP video from youtube or my file system through my webcam. The technology has always been there to virtualize cameras, just hidden behind complex tools like OBS. I hope this segment of tools evolves and becomes the norm.
No worry. We made some changes after your comment. They look all good now from my side in Firefox and also Safari. You can have a look again if you have time Ennea :D
Thank you. That's actually a great idea testing out a few landing pages for different audiences. I will figure it out.
The MVP doesn't do virtual background but we plan to make it soon!
Thank you!! Looking forward to have you try it out and share your experience. Padka doesn't collect any data from user, our MVP doesn't come with any users management actually. When new version comes with any form of collecting information, we will keep users aware of :D
We thought about subscription (free and premium) for individual and corporation; also totally free with ads revenue is an option.
To be honest, right now we are most focusing on developing the product and we haven't make decision about the business model yet. Please feel free to share your thought, I'd love to hear.
We actually aim at education and training, the app is kind of a simplified OBS studio with features targeting the needs of educators, normally a session there last for quite some time, and theme can be very divers. Ads revenue is one of the thoughts we have.
We build a simple set of tools that can be used with any video communication app or streaming platform (Zoom, Google Meeting, etc.), through a virtual audio device and virtual camera, sound and visual effects are injected directly into your streaming video. Our MVP requires macOS Big Sur 11.0 +
The app provides a reaction board (with memes and sound effects), collections of background music and transition videos, set of timers and dice, and a feature to share multimedia files directly on your streaming video.
The app can be download in our website https://www.padka.com/ or directly via this link https://padkaassets.s3.amazonaws.com/Padka.pkg
Please share with us your opinions and reach us out anytime especially if you find a bug, so we have a chance to win you back :P
Really appreciate your time. I'm Mai Lan and looking forward to connecting with you guys!