Hi Hunters! Today I'm launching Talkshow. It's sort of like a reddit forum for your team, but with mini video clips (max 1 minute) so you can see / hear your team mates more frequently :)
Hi Hunters!
Today I'm launching Talkshow. It's sort of like a reddit forum for your team, but with video clips.
I believe remote work is the future, but there are definitely some challenges to overcome.
I've spent the last 3 years working with teams distributed globally and communication was often a problem. Real time solutions didn't really work for us as everyone's schedule was so different, but at the same time I believe strongly that it's a positive thing to see your coworker's face and hear their voice regularly.
So I built Talkshow as a solution to that. It works like a dicussion forum so you can have asynchronous conversations at your own pace, but you can also attach a video clip of yourself to any conversation / reply.
My simple hypothesis is that teams who see and hear each other more frequently will have more fun working, have better communication and build stronger working relationships!
Since you focus on videos so much you should make one for yourself that demonstrates the use case of the product, because I don't want to signup to see how it works. Plus my two questions are :
1. What external features are you adding to make this smoother? Just the basic ability to communicate via video is possible literally everywhere?
2. What are some features that might make me ditch current communication tools and switch here apart from just the core video functionality?
Cheers, Keep making
-Yash
@yash Agreed, the marketing site needs a lot of work. It was made in about 2 hours because I wanted to launch today :) It will get a bit more love over the next week or so, including explainer videos.
@yongfook Awesome good luck, I just checked your blog, love the hustle. Anyways incase you need help with the explainer videos, hit me up, I know a great team here, who can cut you a sweet deal.
Interesting idea! I'm guessing some teams are already using Loom + Slack to achieve what Talkshow is offering, what would be the main value proposition of Talkshow against this kind of set-up ?
This reminds me of a product @ddebow and team worked on last year.
What use cases are you imagining, @yongfook?
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Just tried it out. Looks great!
At first, I didn't understand how is it different from a slack channel but after trying it out, it does "humanise the interaction"
@samirmadhavan one of the biggest differences is that it's not a real-time chat app. Real-time works great for teams in similar locations, but in my experience when you're have teams in very different time zones plus people with variable schedules... real-time is not the best experience!
Love the idea. There is a big need for asynchronous conversations in remote teams. Will try it. Is the recording/ edit of the video done through talkshow or 3rd party app and then uploaded into talkshow?
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