Instant Visio - Video Calls

It started with an article in Italian newspaper "Il Giornale" about of a doctor (Francesca Cortellaro 🙏) who was organizing calls between patients and their families & friends. Thinking about this situation, we realized it was complicated for doctors, nurses & caregivers to identify and choose a video call tool: there are too many options, with complicated on-boarding/contact browsing/install issues. And almost all of the existing tools require to surrender data privacy. Asking ourselves how we can ease the process, the answer was: no register, no login, no install, no personal data stored, and of course, for free. Instant Visio is based on the 3 most universal tools to generate video calls: email, SMS, and web browser.

I worked closely with @stephane_lucon @sebastien_superpositif and @abeba_ngwe to help improve the communication of the release of this product and i fully support their work: they made a such great app in times of crisis ! I'm convinced that this product could inspire a lot of people, both for the open mindset of this self-involved team, and for the efficiency of this tool : they made it fully functional, reliable, trustworthy, and for the most important part "user-centric", focusing on the most needed functionalities. Great job guys and the whole team of makers !

The first version of the product was an Android MVP published on a hackathon, then the whole team joined to build the webApp in a couple of days. A great moment for us was when daily.co opened us a premium account in order to help us provide our service for free. They were really the first to help: thanks again @kwindla & @ninacali4 🙏

We're proud that Instant Visio has been deployed to covid patients in Paris' hospitals, Strasbourg and more ICU & nursing homes in France in order to help keep people in touch with their family. We're now incorporating as a non-profit to keep the service running!