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Show HN: Nando – Team Meetings Done Well
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- lightninglu10 10y agoGood idea! Here's a link to a Show HN room: https://www.getnando.com/showhn https://www.getnando.com/showhn
- the_duke 10y agoLooks well done. Fast and snappy, at least with 5 video participants. I'd like to test a ten person meeting, all with video, though.
- lightninglu10 10y agoHey guys, I'm really excited to announce www.getnando.com — a team collaboration and video chat tool. I've been working on this project with a couple of people and it first started out as an exploration in webRTC and really fast video conferencing. We've been working on this tool for the past month. It's super easy to use (just click and go!) and can hold up to 9 people in video / audio chat. We're now starting to focus more on team collaboration. So if you look at the product in the left pane, we are working on adding more features to the codepad and the Presentation mode, as well as more collaboration tools. Let me know what you guys think of the product and what additions to it would be awesome to see!
- nicpottier 10y agoI dig it! Random little things off the top of my head: 1) the left hand collaborative notepad is an awesome idea, this is very cool. Maybe don't need line numbers in the plaintext mode though? Can't really tell what the other formats allow either, just syntax highlighting? Would maybe be neat if they were rendered in the appropriate formats? 2) Let us pay for it! No seriously, I want this to live! 3) Will there be logins or always just dynamic? Maybe save an email address in a cookie and use gravatars? 4) If using email addresses having a way to send the 'codepad' to all participants would be a good way to send out meeting notes / todos. 5) No kill/yank support in the editor! :( That's all off the top of my head, but super cool! We'll try it out for our next team meeting.
- wkirby 10y agoAwesome start. Here are some features our team would like to see: - Private rooms with an owner - Persistent rooms (once everyone leaves, all the content is lost) - Outbound calling to real phone numbers (let us call out to a conference line, or someone's cell phone)
- iamdave 10y agoOutbound calling to real phone numbers (let us call out to a conference line, or someone's cell phone) Heck or even INBOUND calling directly to a room. Our team uses Join.me frequently, and while our dev team all have their own "rooms" (so if Bob needs to have a meeting with a few devs in Chicago, he can just throw join.me/bob at them) I've long wanted to be able to just call a number and get thrown right into the audio stream.
- superkelvint 10y agoIt looks great! Are you willing to talk a bit how this is implemented? i.e. js stack, libraries etc.
- lightninglu10 10y agoHey superklevint! I explained our stack inside the Video room www.getnando.com/showhn and I'll do it here again: We're using ReactJS with Redux which is really nice. It lets us pass data effortlessly and the whole ReactJS paradigm is just great. We're using a couple of services -- Firebase to handle our coderpad and Sendbird to handle our chat. Then we're using pretty vanilla webRTC to a server, so the peer connections aren't peer to peer, but peer to server to peer. This makes scalability better as well as connectivity (one guy who has really slow internet won't affect the group as much). Then our application server is a simple NodeJS server that manages each individual room.
- nicpottier 10y agoThis is very cool and we were just looking for something similar for our team meetings. You've hit all the pieces we wanted, so love it. What's the revenue model? Don't want to move to this to only have it either disappear or go all enterprise pricing on us. Either way, kudos!
- s_kilk 10y agoChrome-only? wat
- lightninglu10 10y agoYeah, we're working on adding more browser support. It's a bit annoying when each browser adopts a different standard of webRTC!
- Splendor 10y agoPlease don't hijack the back button.
- chromedude 10y agoyes - this is pretty obnoxious.
- lightninglu10 10y agoYES, sorry about that. I know it's an issue and am working on fixing that.
- haney 10y agoI'd be way more likely to continue through if there was information/screenshots before I was asked to input information. As it currently stands I don't know why I'm inputting information and what benefit it is going to provide me.
- lightninglu10 10y agoThanks for the feedback haney. We're definitely trying to better our onboarding and showing you what this is about before entering information.
- jdkanani 10y agoThis is fantastic. Great execution. Fast and easy to use.
- Slaul 10y agoIs it possible to share/present my screen with this?
- lightninglu10 10y agoNot yet, but we have planned to add that as a feature. We were also playing with a bulked up Presentation mode so that screen share may not be necessary. (but would probably still be for demos)
- nicpottier 10y agoI personally would focus on screen sharing over the presentation mode, as it seems like you get both with screen share. (plus all the other use cases that come with it)
- Slaul 10y agoCool, I like the idea of this service. I'll keep checking back!
- grumblestumble 10y agolack of screen sharing would be my top reason not to switch over from zoom/skype/hangouts/join.me/etaladinfinitum...
- realkitkat 10y agoSame here. Working / easy screen sharing is what I need. And would be happy to switch from Webex / GTM / others to here if that were to work. Nice job otherwise!
- krmmalik 10y agoThis looks siginificantly better than anything else I've ever seen online addressing this area. I didn't get a chance to try the video conferencing, but I'm assuming it'll be pretty good(?) Quick question. If I want to do a presentation to say 50 or 60 people, will they be able to at least see what i am sharing in the presentation or will they receive audio only?
- lightninglu10 10y agoThanks krmmalik! Everyone is able to see everything in the presentation area. We are working on being able to make the presentation area synced for everyone, so if you click on something, then it should show for everyone.
- evantahler 10y agoHow does this compare to appear.in?
- sigvef 10y agoand it works with Zombocam too, nice! https://www.zombocam.com https://www.zombocam.com
- Avery3R 10y agoPlease don't hijack my back button.
- ryanmccullagh 10y agoCame in here to say this. What is up with this? Some type of black hat marketing trick?
- lightninglu10 10y agoFixed it, sorry about that! Never wanted you guys to leave the site :)
- msarchet 10y agoYeah. Especially when I've done nothing on your page.
- lightninglu10 10y agoFixed it msarchet, sorry!
- lightninglu10 10y agoSorry :(. Our page at www.getnando.com forwards you to a randomly generated room and I guess if you click back it keeps doing that. Working on fixing that now because yes, it is obnoxious.
- Avery3R 10y agoIf you're using js to change the url use `location.replace()` instead of `location.assign()`
- lightninglu10 10y agoMuchas Gracias :)
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- lightninglu10 10y agoFor anyone who wants to follow along with our progress, follow our Medium here: https://medium.com/getnando https://medium.com/getnando We'll make posts about product updates and roadmap things and probably answer questions about our tech stack and how we did specific things.
- sumobob 10y agoCheck out using medium publications with a subdomain, I set it up for my company and its been working great
- primitivesuave 10y agoCool idea, awesome UI, but vulnerable to XSS attacks :( Proof (NSFW): https://getnando.com/showhn https://getnando.com/showhn (in case it gets fixed or if you are at work - as soon as the comments load, it redirects to an adult website)
- lightninglu10 10y agoYeah, need to fix that... Just got rid of the javascript so it's back up.
- Stratoscope 10y agoWhy would you need to redirect to an adult site to make your point, when you could have redirected to something more interesting and relevant and SFW? Like this for example: https://www.google.com/search?q=cross+site+scripting https://www.google.com/search?q=cross+site+scripting
- primitivesuave 10y agoIt wasn't me, I have playground etiquette when it comes to Show HNs. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
- 794CD01 10y agoIt seems like a nice collaboration tool but what does it have to do with spicy chicken?
- lightninglu10 10y ago:)
- NTripleOne 10y agoit's cheeky af m8, that's what
- yahyaheee 10y agoI really like where this is heading
- waaaseee 10y agoThe site is not loading for me, anyone els?
- lightninglu10 10y agoHey waaaseee, were you able to ever load the site?
- fiatjaf 10y ago"Nando" is an affectionate nickname for "Fernando" in Brazil.
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