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   by zumachase 6y ago

   We're not planning to open source it. Some features down the road will become paid but the free version will always contain at the very least what you see today. The heavy lifting is done P2P falling back to our TURN servers if NAT tra
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   by zumachase 6y ago

   A failure would indicate some sort of malicious actor, so the connection is logged and rejected.
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   by zumachase 6y ago

   This is like being in many teamspeak channels at once. It's also built on open standards like webrtc so you could easily integrate into a squawk swarm.
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   by zumachase 6y ago

   We have TURN servers setup for NAT traversal...but they don't terminate ssl like an SFU does.
5. 65.▲
   by zumachase 6y ago

   Definitely in our plans
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   by zumachase 6y ago

   Glad to see we're not the only PTT fans out there. 1. Screen sharing is next on our list, it's the thing that we want most ourselves. 2. This is definitely not mobile optimized. It does work-ish on mobile phones, but it maintains
7. 67.▲
   by zumachase 6y ago

   Bingo.
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   by zumachase 6y ago

   Free
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   by zumachase 6y ago

   We built this specifically because of Zoom fatigue.
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    Yes, muting is on the receiving side: when you mute a group (or global mute) you won't hear anyone, and they can all see that you've muted and aren't there. The push-to-talk is on the sending side. So when you're not pus
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    Hey - the landing page is definitely in need of love. Part of this is cultural (you wouldn't constantly shout at your colleague in person across the desk) but there are per-group and global mute buttons when you need peace and quiet. E
12. 72.▲
    by zumachase 6y ago

    If you mute yourself, everyone else can see you muted. But statuses are on one of our upcoming sprints.
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    Hey - we're looking at integrations with other apps, but the walled gardens make that difficult unfortunately. I hear the frustration of downloading another thing - I've changed the landing page to make clear you can access in you
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    There's a handshake before you accept a connection to anyone. Each peer generates a keypair and sends the public key to our servers (which they're authed with). On connection, peers receive the public key from the Squawk servers,
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    Thanks! The tech in the link is awesome...might be above our pay grade.
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    Good question: there's no pricing page at the moment because we'll always offer the current functionality for free. We have some enterprise features (freemium) that we're planning, but we also won't charge for those unti
17. 77.▲
    by zumachase 6y ago

    Definitely on the todo list. In the meantime - https://app.squawk.to
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    Thanks! Yeah we definitely will release linux (it's electron based so no reason to leave linux out). It works better as an app but you can also access it in browser at https://app.squawk.to
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    This is a tricky problem, and we have a couple of ideas. But currently if we're having a longer chat (double clicked will latch-open the mic) then we mute the other groups. Anyone else in the other groups will be able to see that you&#
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    TeamSpeak and Discord are oriented towards staying in one channel for longer periods of time which we found cumbersome. Squawk is more conducive to having many groups that you can switch between seamlessly: just push-and-hold to talk to a d
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    Ah yeah that's on our todo list. At the moment, we tend to create groups like "Person A / Person B" but it's not ideal. The plan is that you can also Squawk anyone inside a group 1-on-1. Screen-sharing is next on th
22. 82.▲
    by zumachase 6y ago

    Thanks! Definitely looking for feature requests. I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean quick/throwaway groups?
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    We use OVH and Hetzner in production. Huge fans of both.
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    Hi all - open beta of a tool we created for ourselves during lockdown. We got sick of trying to replicate the effortless comms we had in the office, and hated managing a half dozen always-on Zoom/Slack/etc calls. So we built Squaw
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    Show HN: Squawk – Walkie Talkie for Teams(squawk.to)

    153 points by zumachase 6y ago|114 comments
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    Show HN: Squawk – Push-to-Talk for Teams(squawk.to)

    2 points by zumachase 6y ago|1 comments
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    No they didn’t: liquidation preference.
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    We found many of the virtual office tools too invasive for our tastes both physically with video emphasis and virtually by commanding a lot of attention. So we built a group intercom system that stays out of your way but gives you seamless
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    One of the reasons we built Squawk, a push-to-talk group chat platform, was for this very reason. Many of our team have young kids at home, and current chat tools require too much work to ensure you're muted and not spamming your backg
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    by zumachase 6y ago

    We've actually just beta launched a tool to solve this exact problem. We found ourselves in a number of muted Zoom/Hangouts/GMeets for various teams/sub teams. So we built Squawk to solve this. PTT by default and end-to-