Gather Town

Name: Gather Town
Rating: 4.82 (11 reviews)

Spatial video-chat worlds for work and play

4.8•11 reviews•

88 followers

Spatial video-chat worlds for work and play

4.8•11 reviews•

88 followers

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Video conferencing

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Virtual office platforms

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Video and Voice calling

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Virtual events

Make virtual spaces to bring people together and connect authentically. Gather combines video calling with fun features in a custom 2-D world, making it more spontaneous and enjoyable to get together for work, life, or play. Come join!

Launch tags:Virtual Reality•Productivity•Messaging

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Mint Club

I remember that I saw this epic product somewhere else. We've been also thinking to build this kinda product before but it seems you guys already created super amazing one :D By the way, your PH badge on the website seems linked with a wrong product (https://www.producthunt.com/post...).

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6yr ago

Gather Town

Maker

@andrew_cho Hey Andrew, thanks so much for checking out our product, and also pointing that out (oops) we just fixed it! Super interested to hear that you were going to work on something similar! If that does happen, would love to see it, and of course, would love any thoughts on platforms like this in general 🤗

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6yr ago

Gather Town

Maker

Hey ProductHunt 👋! We’re Alex, Kumail, Nate, and Phillip, co-founders of Gather. Since April, our team has been working non-stop to try to cure some of the exhaustion from online quarantined interactions. We really miss our friends, and felt that Zoom calls lacked the serendipitous “hallway conversations” you might get in real life, and set out to tackle the problem! That’s why Gather is completely spatial — in our app, you have to be virtually “close” to someone to hear them, which allows for many conversations in one space and wonderful spontaneous interactions. Gather has blossomed into a product that is used for: 🍹 Happy hours and conferences, where large groups of people break off into smaller groups to interact 💻 Remote offices, to work alongside each other and have serendipidous "water cooler" conversations 😊 And much, much more. We've been used for weddings, artist EP launches, university campuses, or just hanging out with friends. So how does Gather work? 🤔 🗺️ Build your map, or choose one of ours! Gather has a wide selection of premade maps to choose from, ranging from a moon pond to a beach side castle. Once you select the environment you want to hang out in, you can… 💡 Place down some objects!  In the space, you can place down interactable “objects” such as whiteboards to draw on, youtube videos to watch together, or even games to play together. Go crazy! 😎 Invite your friends! Simply send the link to your friends, and have them join you <3 we’re 100% free up to 25 users Thanks so much for checking us out, we’d love to hang out with you and meet you! Just come to the special space we’ve set up just for product hunters: https://gather.town/app/nO9uzqf6... Lots of love, Alex, Kumail, Nate, and Phillip

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6yr ago

Hello @alex_chen1 Is drawing a map within the free version ? I'm trying to explore this amazing platform for a number of events at my university (Penn State). We wouldn't mind paying if this platform proves to be a hit among students for small free events.

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6yr ago

Gather Town

Maker

@alex_chen1 @aero_bhaskar Completely free to make your own map! Go to https://gather.town/mapmaker

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6yr ago

Building Mobile Apps at Scale

Great product! Appears like a fun alternative to Zoom at first, but upon closer look, Gather has a number of features that appear to be building towards the Metaverse. Would love to see native games, such as Among Us, within the platform with my avatars.

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6yr ago

Gather Town

Maker

@jeffrey_li1 Thanks Jeff! Have loved your feedback on the platform <3

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6yr ago

I used Gather to host a work happy hour and it turned out super well! For an event of our size, it was important that we could socialize in smaller, manageable groups while still being connected in a larger space, so Gather was a perfect fit. We recreated our office (with a few extra bells and whistles) using the map editor. It was so fun to feel like we were back in that space and to see coworkers that we don't work directly with. For our summer interns, it was their first time seeing what the office looks like! Now everyone is free to re-use the map for any event. The Gather team was extremely responsive and helpful for all of my questions and I highly recommend working with them.

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6yr ago

Gather Town

Maker

@paulchoi Thanks Paul :) Enjoyed hosting the office for Flatiron!

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6yr ago

The first time I tried Gather.town was on Monday after the totally ground-breaking Filecoin event, it was an awesome user experience and was transported back to the late 90's with things like the original version of 'Habbo Hotel' ! When I entered the room there was the Web3 visionary and founder of Filecoin @juanbenet and some of his brilliant team. Juan guided us on how to use the room, and we all got into a conversation and sharing stories, which felt very intimate and inclusive in these crazy times. I would love to get my whole company on this as being remote-first we don't have offices and this might just be the thing to pull us all together in one place! Well done guys you all rock

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6yr ago

Gather Town

Maker

@juanbenet @rus_sellers No way! Our team is a fan of Juan's work. Feel free to contact us at hello@gather.town for help setting up an office space! We have some map templates up, and are currently also making custom spaces for folks.

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6yr ago

Just used Gather today for my university club meet-and-greet event! It's so liberating to be able to virtually "walk around" and "mingle" with other students, terms that seem almost taboo in our current times. One of the biggest pluses (in my opinion) is that all participants have control over who they want to talk to, whenever they want to, something that Zoom breakout rooms sadly overlook. The event went really well, people had a lot of fun, and I would totally recommend this platform for anyone trying to plan a chill social-type event (or meeting, or anything, really)! @ makers: Would be amazing if there was even more support for certain (perhaps) commonly-useful objects within the map, such as Clock/Timers, music players, etc. :)

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6yr ago

Gather Town

Maker

@fuzzy__elephant Thanks Claire! 100% agree that many more objects would be useful! We're working on it, and glad to hear your event went well.

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6yr ago

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Reviewers mostly praise Gather Town as a virtual office that makes remote work feel more like being onsite: people can quickly “walk over” to teammates, start informal chats, host easy guest meetings, and make meetings feel less flat and more engaging than standard video calls. One founder, the maker of Kai, echoes that daily use, saying it replaces calendar-heavy coordination with quick drop-ins. The main complaints are reliability issues, especially occasional voice-chat failures in meeting rooms and editing bugs that can cause changes not to save.

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