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They don't but they do if you have too much of them. In my experience, the amount of meetings only increased when working remotely. I would welcome a meeting bu
by smetj 2y ago
They don't but they do if you have too much of them. In my experience, the amount of meetings only increased when working remotely. I would welcome a meeting budget ... how many time one is allowed to spend in meetings over a certain time window ... once consumed you cannot be invited to, organize or join a meeting anymore.
- gumby 2y agoGreat idea. Wish I’d heard it years ago.
- jacobgorm 2y agoI am cofounder of Jamscape, a startup that is trying to replace as many video meetings as possible with short ad-hoc face-to-face conversations that you can then share with others, and with actual eye contact. Perhaps a tool like this could help cut your meeting load.
- dingnuts 2y agoyou used more words but it sounds like your product is a video meeting product. I'm not sure having more meetings with your product will cut down on the number of meetings I have, but I understand why you would rather I have meetings on your platform
- fragmede 2y agosure, but if it's meaningfully better then people should know about it and try it out and decide for themselves. I don't care that Google wants me to use their product because it makes them money. I search there because it's better than the alternatives I've tried. If this meeting product is better then by all means, let's hear about how it's actually better rather than dismissing the product owner for wanting you to use their product because it makes them money. we're all well aware of how zoom/meet/teams meetings suck by this point. a product that manages to make them less onerous so I'm less exhausted at the end of a day off then would be a godsend.
- jacobgorm 2y agoThanks! Jamscape is free to download and use, at https://jamscape.com https://jamscape.com. Currently only for macOS & Windows, but we are working on broader platform support. Very happy to help you test if it is something for you and collect your feedback.
- zamadatix 2y agoHow does Jamscape enable short ad-hoc face-to-face conversations differently than existing video meeting platforms?
- jacobgorm 2y agoIt uses real time face recognition to give a very accurate presence indicator, so you never risk calling people when they’re not actually in front of the camera, it crops your face tightly with AI so you don’t have worry about what you are wearing or your surroundings before accepting or making a call, and it uses an AI video codec that boost eye contact and facial expressions even over low bandwidth and long haul connections. When the call is over it creates a transcript that is easy to share with others, and that others can use as a base for follow up calls or discussions, thus reducing the need for everybody to be in every call to stay on the same page.
- shortrounddev2 2y agoSo my camera always has to be on?
- jacobgorm 2y agoIt is optional and not on by default. If not it falls back to mouse and keyboard activity tracking. The advantage of using the camera is that it works even if you are not touching the computer, like when reading or watching YouTube, using another device, etc.
- shortrounddev2 2y agoI'm not sure if you know this but if this is marketed at businesses, the employees are gonna hate it
- jacobgorm 2y agoThat is actually not the feedback we are getting. And as I said the way it is configured by default does not divulge and more information than e.g. the green dot in Slack or Teams, the rest is up to you.
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- temporallobe 2y agoGood point. It seems that since the advent of remote work, meetings have become cheap, and we are now overloaded with them.
- throwaway3306a 2y agoInformal "meetings" became impossible and got replaced by formalized meetings. What could be resolved with a quick look over the table to the two other devs I need to talk with, and everyone else on the team was nearby and could hear or join the discussion, now must be a formal calendar invite because otherwise we built an information silo. I had an example of that just this Friday (but really every day). A peer review got so complex that chat wasn't nearly enough, the PR comments were getting repetitive, and it resulted into 3 full draining hours of calls full of misunderstanding, stuck shared screens, "please can you zoom your editor I have a much smaller screen than you", etc. We used to solve issues like that with a quick look on the display next to us, maybe 20 minutes of on and off discussion while doing other things, few more quick looks and it was done. Same team, same people, less senior than now (before covid). I love the flexibility but hate everything else about remote work.