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by aejae 4y ago
Cofounder here: agreed that an always on CCTV would suck and is counter to our approach. Our website does make it seem to some folks like your camera would always be on, but that’s emphatically not the case. (We need to fix this on our site
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by aejae 4y ago
> Isn't the Dropbox desktop app Electron crap these days? It's certainly not the pleasant experience it used to be. Sadly I agree. However the blog post I linked describes their mobile strategy. Sorry about the confusion. FWIW
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by aejae 4y ago
:) Planning to release this next week!
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by aejae 4y ago
False dichotomy—in our case we’d rather _start_ on macOS and then build other platforms separately… than use Qt.
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by aejae 4y ago
Fair enough. Many of our users used to do what you do. Reasons they sometimes switch from long-lived Meet calls: - Free up 200-300 MB of RAM when in call. - Features specific to coworking (e.g. shared music DJing) or eng pairing (e.g. multi
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by aejae 4y ago
This. We (at Remotion) are currently evaluating what platform to build for, given our start with macOS native / Cocoa. But for Windows, what is Windows Native? Seeming like more of a collection of half-baked ideas than robust framework
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by aejae 4y ago
Not yet, but soon! TBH only time will tell whether our decision to go native-first, then cross-platform (vs Chromium-based cross-platform) was the right call.
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by aejae 4y ago
This is a major reason many companies that start native, then try to scale to 100+ person eng teams often end up incorporating web views, and then switching over entirely. Saw this happen personally for our desktop client at Dropbox.
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by aejae 4y ago
This is a really cool idea. This could start with a small but growing group of apps that opt into that transparency.
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by aejae 4y ago
Agreed—and we're currently deliberating how we'll build for other OSes. Re the article not explaining what Remotion does, we're trying to avoid plugging our app itself in our technical posts—we figure anyone who's intere
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by aejae 4y ago
(At Remotion) We decided against Qt partially based on my experience working on the Dropbox desktop client—Qt sounds great in principle but in practice we think you're better choosing between native or web tech. I'm less familiar
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by aejae 4y ago
As one of the codevelopers of Remotion, I sadly don't think there's a meaningful return to native macOS. Team communication tools like us are a non-starter if they don't support the entire team, and the vast majority of even
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by aejae 4y ago
100%. We initially chose to write natively because we thought it was best for our users. But now that we're putting that work in, recruiting for a less comment skillset, don't have Windows or Linux clients yet, etc... we want to m
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by aejae 4y ago
Yep! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-memory... .
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Tactical Guide to Virtual Coworking(remotion.com)
8 points by aejae 5y ago|1 comments
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by aejae 6y ago
Age old question: What's a feature and what's a company? Many software questions start as "features" that an incumbent could have built. The question is whether they break out before the incumbent realizes the value. ht
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by aejae 6y ago
This was a really fun experience. If you're organizing a 16+ person happy hour it's a great way to organically let the group split into smaller conversations.
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Remotion raises $13M and announces its video workspace for remote teams(remotion.com)
21 points by aejae 6y ago|1 comments
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Remotion raises $13M to build video workspace for short spontaneous conversation(techcrunch.com)
33 points by aejae 6y ago|3 comments
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by aejae 6y ago
Hey folks, I’m Alexander, cofounder of Remotion. We help teams get into quick video chats instead of scheduling meetings or texting. This makes remote collaboration faster and less isolating. We’re in beta (macOS only for now) and looking f
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Show HN: Remotion – Quick video chat for remote teams (macOS only)(remotion.com)
18 points by aejae 6y ago|4 comments
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by aejae 7y ago
Thanks mikesholiu, would love to hear how that goes for you!
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by aejae 7y ago
Thanks! Absolutely planning on having multi-platform support in the near future.
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by aejae 7y ago
Hey HN, cofounder Alexander here. Seeing Remotion in action is the best way to grok it so you have 3 mins, check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ0GITPcMAY . Backstory & problem: Charley and I started working remote
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by aejae 7y ago
Thanks, founder here. Remotion is designed for teams of people that collaborate closely. Usually that's the "2-pizza" team of 4-10 people, even if you're at a 1000-person company. The way this works in Remotion is you ch