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by mgadams3 6y ago
I only chose teams to put on the website that really use it regularly. We have a bunch more logos of the type others here describe that I could have chosen but that's dumb. Two teams at Slack currently use Grain. Behzod runs research
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Yup, you nailed it. Our transcription will naturally get better over time but it doesn't have to be perfect b/c it's a means to an end in Grain. (creating/trimming video clips) Even perfect transcripts are still terrible
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Not really, Zoom has gotten to where they are by focusing on what they're world class at, which is reliable connectivity. I don't see them changing focus on anything but keeping the lead they have that made them so successful. Thi
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Cultivating an app ecosystem on their platform is a publicly stated goal of Zoom. Cutting off any start-up building on it would be counter-productive and lead to their competitors gaining the advantage of innovation on their platform instea
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by mgadams3 6y ago
As a fellow workflow efficiency nerd.. I salute you. Would love to learn about your manual workflows sometime.
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Thanks! Will check it out!
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by mgadams3 6y ago
That's awesome. No doubt there is a lot of greenfield in this area of communication.
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Thanks. We do to. We use Notion like crazy internally so it was at the top of our priority list along with Slack. I probably paste 80% of my links into Slack... it's magical b/c people just watch, get the context and then discuss.
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Thanks, the video took a surprising amount of work but happy w/ the result. You're exactly right wrt the dedicated real-time annotator. We created a information transfer framework for our internal product development/design t
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Thanks for asking. We bounced around on really bad names like Radical (as in transparency/candor), Arthur (everyone has a seat at the roundtable), Zebra (literally just a placeholder)... But landed on Grain because it means something a
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Thanks Ed's friend! We're lucky he joined our team at the very beginning.
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Thanks for the well wishes skeptical but kind stranger! No doubt we're aware of the analogs and risks. Have spent a collective month in Zoom calls with other platform founders to understand the risks but feeling really good about Zoom
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Will have to watch that one later.
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by mgadams3 6y ago
We never nudes need to stick together! ;) But seriously... if anyone else here is building on Zoom's platform hit me up. I'm looking to build more community in the Zoom App ecosystem.
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by mgadams3 6y ago
I've been building apps on Zoom for 5 years (3 years building private apps for Zoom based schools) and I'm grateful for the recent news helping Zoom to prioritize critical things that Eric said himself that they should have priori
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Thanks! We think so too. We actually spent 9 months building a prior version of Grain that was basically a Google Doc w/ Zoom integration & time stamps. Ultimately, we threw that version away (kill your darlings as they say). Peopl
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Zoom is just where we start (huge distribution channel and the most developed platform). As soon as you build your own WebRTC based thing... you're nuking millions of existing video based workflows you could otherwise tap into to creat
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Like anything in start-ups it's a calculated risk. Zoom's app marketplace is designed to facilitate start-ups like ours as they move to become a platform. See https://marketplace.zoom.us/competition . One of the pa
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Hey HN. I'm Mike co-founder/CEO of Grain. I decided to start Grain b/c I was tired of requesting access to recordings of convos and repeating myself when I could just share the part of a recording instead. Our team built some
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by mgadams3 7y ago
I suppose we'll find out on 11/15. Could use elections/votes as a proxy for what constitutes a political ad. If the thing/person being promoted can be voted on/in, it's a political ad.
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by mgadams3 7y ago
Grain | Frontend Engineer (React) & Backend Engineer (Elixir/Phoenix) | San Mateo, CA | Full Time | Onsite Grain is on a mission to make all voice & video conversations at work accessible and useful. We do this by creating a re
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by mgadams3 7y ago
agreed, I never believe a yes until the money is in the bank.
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by mgadams3 8y ago
I can see your point. But it does sound like a SaaS product that deliberately makes it hard to cancel but legally doesn't have to stop charging your card.
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by mgadams3 8y ago
This is exactly what I'm seeing in my WeWork building.
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by mgadams3 8y ago
My understanding is that they make some bullshit claim about how they have instrumented everything and that helps them to apply machine learning to their community and app, blah blah. It's def not a tech company but I could see them go
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by mgadams3 8y ago
The WeWork I'm in was 30% occupancy for the first 4 months it was open... then literally overnight it jumped to 90% because a couple big companies came in and took over an entire floor and blocks of offices on another floor. In 24 hour
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by mgadams3 8y ago
I believe that ring central now just white labels zooms infra
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by mgadams3 8y ago
Grain | Backend Engineers | San Mateo, CA | Flex Onsite/Remote | Fulltime | https://www.grain.co Grain is on a mission to make important team conversations accessible and useful for everyone, even if you weren't in the
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by mgadams3 8y ago
I've enjoyed being a customer of WeWork (and benefitting from this economically untenable situation) much more than having my start-up acquired by them. It actually is a pretty well executed product (not economically viable but well de
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