Kumospace

Name: Kumospace
Rating: 3.0 (2 reviews)

Immersive video chat built for groups

3.0•2 reviews•

19 followers

Immersive video chat built for groups

3.0•2 reviews•

19 followers

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Kumospace combines the creativity of video games with the simplicity of video chat. Rich illustrations, interactive apps, and customizable environments delight guests and sponsors alike. Meetups, happy hours, or conferences...there’s a Kumospace for that!

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Kumospace

Maker

Howdy folks! Brett here, co-founder of ☁️ Kumospace. Pumped to share a bit about what led us to build Kumospace, what problems we are trying to solve, and where this thing is going. 👣 How we got here - At Charge.vc, I used to run a monthly IRL meetup for angel investors. When the pandemic hit, I quickly realized that existing video chat solutions simply don’t work for participant-focused events like conferences, meetups, and happy hours. One person speaks while everyone else waits to speak, or simply tunes out. We knew there had to be a better way. That’s why my co-founder Yang and I built Kumospace. ⛓️ Break free from breakout rooms - In real life, the best networking doesn’t happen in the “dedicated networking rooms” but rather fluidly and serendipitously in the hallways, bars, and chance encounters between talks at an event. Kumospaces, like the physical spaces they mimic, enable participants to explore and converse with agency. Guests who are closer are louder (a.k.a. spatial audio), allowing groups to organically form and dissolve in different regions of the same space at the same time. 🎨 Customize your space - The same two people will have very different interactions depending on whether they meet in a coffee shop, boardroom, or bar. Rather than the undifferentiated experiences of existing video chat apps, Kumospaces are rich, customizable, and expressive. Choose your favorite layout or (coming soon) build your own. 🍸Turn conversations into experiences - Humans build trust and relationships by doing things together. We enable our hosts to enrich their spaces and entertain their guests with virtual bars, jukeboxes, big screen TVs and more. Since launching our beta in August, we have seen teams from Google to Harvard to Facebook to Columbia host escape rooms, birthday parties, and design studios in Kumospace. 📅 Today we’re opening up out of beta here on Product Hunt to share Kumospace with the PH community. We can’t wait to see what amazing use cases y’all will come up with! 🥂 COME VIRTUALLY CELEBRATE WITH US! We are inviting Product Hunters to join us for Kumospace’s Virtual Launch Party between 9am - 6pm EST. We’ve invited some of our coolest friends (who’ve invited their coolest friends) from the tech, VC, and startup worlds. To join, simply click on this link: www.kumospace.com/launchparty! We strongly recommend using Chrome and a desktop computer for the best experience. Thanks for checking out Kumospace. Let us know what you think! Have fun, Brett, Yang, and Team Kumo

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6yr ago

Philosophical Foxes

@brett1211 Amazing to see this! Can't wait to see what you guys build next :)

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6yr ago

Kumospace

Maker

@brett1211 @mdagabriele Thanks for the love friend. Need to get the growing Generalist army in there for a cocktail hour soon!

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6yr ago

@brett1211 All the best!

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6yr ago

Philosophical Foxes

@brett1211 Love it!

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6yr ago

Kumospace

Maker

@brett1211 @pradeep_paniyadi Thanks brother! hope to see you in there!

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6yr ago

This is neat! Zoom Fatigue is definitely real so solving a real problem. Love products that are built for whatever the new normal is 1. Is Kumospace it's own thing? or it sits ontop of Zoom/Teams etc? 2. Is this more of a social product ex. break room? Or a place to do business. Feel like this would play very nicely with https://www.mmhmm.app/

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6yr ago

Kumospace

Maker

@mrmikesmith Hi Mike, great questions. Kumospace runs in your browser and is its own thing. We've had people use it for more social and more professional use cases. It's really up to you!

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6yr ago

Kumospace

Maker

@mrmikesmith Hi Mike. Thanks for the thoughtful questions. 1) Kumospace is its own thing. We think that the design space provided by spatial audio will enable far richer and more engaging interactions than what you can build on Zoom today. 2) Honestly, we're focused on our hosts. We want to provide hosts with the best possible platform to create, share, and consume immersive virtual events. We've seen hosts throw happy hours, employee onboadings, all hands, internal workshops, external conferences birthday parties, baby showers and more in our rooms.

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6yr ago

@mrmikesmith @brett1211 what a wonderful customer development answer to focus on hosts. Hope the launch party went well. Wish I could have made it. Will try it for my next gathering

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6yr ago

How does the spatial audio work? Does background noise and chatter increase the more participants there are in a space?

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6yr ago

Kumospace

Maker

@arthurbostic Hi Arthur. Another great question. In short, the spatial audio mimics real life. The closer you are to a person or object (e.g. a jukebox) the louder it is. The further you are, the quieter. So even if there are 20 people in one room, you can always find a quiet corner for private conversation! Hope that makes sense. LMK if you have any more questions!

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6yr ago

This seems like a revolutionary video chat platform. I agree with the makers that zoom and others are very much focused on just one speaker. What case studies and use cases have you seen become most popular with your platform?

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6yr ago

Kumospace

Maker

@garciagarcia Thanks so much for the kind words Garcia. The range of human interaction that we've seen in Kumospace is pretty astounding. We've seen teams from big companies like FB, SHOP, GOOG, LI, etc use kumospace for happy hours, all hands, employee onboarding, sales training. We've seen big 4 consultancies use kumo for executive workshops. We've seen insurance companies, and meditation-focused intentional communities and Harvard Business School throw events in Kumospaces. Our goal is not to be prescriptive but to give hosts the best tools to throw amazing immersive events. Your community looks amazing. Ping @maxwellscomment if you want to build a special space for it to connect in Kumo!

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6yr ago

Kumospace is so fun! There's so much potential to add gaming, collaboration, productivity, and more in this app. Can't wait to see what happens on the mobile version. ?makers any chance you'll integrate with Among Us?

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6yr ago

Kumospace

Maker

@tallgoods haha. Thanks sir. We agree! Among Us integration sounds dope.

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6yr ago

What are some of the nuances that make Kumo different from some of the other similar spacial virtual spaces that are popping up right now?

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6yr ago

Kumospace

Maker

@aaron_cohn Hi Aaron. You are correct in that several companies are using "spatial audio" as a useful primitive for enabling multiple conversations in the same space. IMO what will differentiate and define companies in the space is what they enable users to DO in those virtual environments. Are they rich and interactive or are they flat and ephemeral? :)

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6yr ago

@brett1211 awesome work. Had a big smile on my face watching the intro video. Upvotes on a product are one thing, but you know someones has hit on something when people leave comments and reviews in droves. It the equivalent of retweeting with a comment versus liking something! I respect you guys for engaging and keeping up with them a few days post-launch. It amazes me how many makers don't engage even on the day of their launch. I am looking forward to checking this out later as I've been actively avoiding most other Zoom type gatherings. On the broader subject, I was going to ask for your take on Hopin but appreciate like any seemingly huge and growing market with a lot of pain there is a lot of competition popping up. (Some interesting mentions here: https://twitter.com/anildash/sta...) A better question might be, are you more of a professional groups product than a virtual conference app? Keep up the stellar work.

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6yr ago

Kumospace

Maker

@brett1211 @lynnastyie Thanks for the kind words. I hope you've had a chance to check out the product! Re: Hopin, I think there is always going to a place for massive virtual events that are more broadcast than participation. Personally, I think http://www.experiencewelcome.com/ is the best for this. That said, I don't think this type of product makes sense for most "events" especially participant driven ones like mixers, networking events, happy hours, all hands, trade shows etc. This is where we are focused.

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