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“I would say that we started this project very much with a technology mindset and focus on technical problems,” Ivov told The Daily Swig. “If I were to start ov
by agrippanux 6y ago
“I would say that we started this project very much with a technology mindset and focus on technical problems,” Ivov told The Daily Swig.
“If I were to start over again, I would worry significantly more about use cases and about how real people could use the technology.”
This was buried at the end yet is arguably the most interesting part, worthy of its own article. Scaling up cause you used a cloud infrastructure is old news. Details on product vs engineering lessons is timeless.
- m463 6y agoEvery technology faces that problem - you get a huge influx of users and the numbers say you have to start making it possible for non-technical and inexperienced users. The problem is usually that when software nowadays gets popular, business people get involved and start messing with the secret sauce that is responsible for the popularity. The sentiment behind his words seems to be "I could have been zoom", and that kind of thinking may lead him to think he should compromise the core values (that are driving people from zoom to jitsi in the first place).
- sjg007 6y agoThere’s going to be a large number of video conferencing apps and startups over the next few years as we settle in with distance learning and remote work. Zoom and meet are the bare minimum but not optimal.