[bradleydwyer]

I read the article as positive and the "won't be around long" comment seemed more directed at an acquisition rather than a failure due to lack of demand.

I don't really see my comments as silly. I work for a startup and Sqwiggle was used exclusively while I was in my home. Apart from completely terminating the application/tab I had no way to prevent a live video and audio stream that happened to be able to look into my living room and pick up audio from anywhere in my house (it's a small house).

It wasn't 24/7 but the team did have a strong insistence that it be running while working and that is somewhere between 12 and 16 hours a day, 6 days a week.

That's not much private time in my home for me or the rest of my family. I liked the product and a few tweaks would probably make it acceptable to use.

Fix the busy flag clearing and allow my profile to disable auto video call connection. The other strategy that might solve it while keeping the spirit of instant chat would be to default to the busy state and have a timed non-busy state. e.g.:

/Here 3H

Which disables the busy state for 3 hours.