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Is one really needed? Facebook has VOIP, Slack has VOIP, most modern games have decent built in VOIP. It's not an interesting problem anymore and it's available
by heidar 10y ago
Is one really needed? Facebook has VOIP, Slack has VOIP, most modern games have decent built in VOIP. It's not an interesting problem anymore and it's available everywhere.
- lawnchair_larry 10y agoNetwork effects. Skype is the only thing resembling a de facto standard for talking to any two random non-technical people. Skype has literally 100x the monthly active users of Slack, and barely anyone is on slack to make VOIP calls, especially with people outside of their team.
- GFischer 10y agoThat's what WebRTC promises to solve, and there are already great tools using it (Appear.in for example). What they don't solve is the discovery/network aspect. My own side project/startup wannabee uses WebRTC to enable random non-technical people to talk to companies that use our product :) ( https://keveo.tv/en/ https://keveo.tv/en/ ).
- heidar 10y agoThen it's good enough. Facebook is bigger than Skype and you can have a chat/VOIP call with anyone on Facebook, even if they're not your friend. Then there's Google hangouts as well. Slack is meant for teams. Gamers use Discord.
- chx 10y agoSlack has VoIP?