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Hey guys, I'm really excited to announce www.getnando.com — a team collaboration and video chat tool. I've been working on this project with a couple of people and it first started out as an exploration in webRTC and really fast video conferencing.

We've been working on this tool for the past month. It's super easy to use (just click and go!) and can hold up to 9 people in video / audio chat.

We're now starting to focus more on team collaboration. So if you look at the product in the left pane, we are working on adding more features to the codepad and the Presentation mode, as well as more collaboration tools.

Let me know what you guys think of the product and what additions to it would be awesome to see!

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I dig it!

Random little things off the top of my head:

1) the left hand collaborative notepad is an awesome idea, this is very cool. Maybe don't need line numbers in the plaintext mode though? Can't really tell what the other formats allow either, just syntax highlighting? Would maybe be neat if they were rendered in the appropriate formats?

2) Let us pay for it! No seriously, I want this to live!

3) Will there be logins or always just dynamic? Maybe save an email address in a cookie and use gravatars?

4) If using email addresses having a way to send the 'codepad' to all participants would be a good way to send out meeting notes / todos.

5) No kill/yank support in the editor! :(

That's all off the top of my head, but super cool! We'll try it out for our next team meeting.

Awesome start. Here are some features our team would like to see:

- Private rooms with an owner - Persistent rooms (once everyone leaves, all the content is lost) - Outbound calling to real phone numbers (let us call out to a conference line, or someone's cell phone)

Outbound calling to real phone numbers (let us call out to a conference line, or someone's cell phone)

Heck or even INBOUND calling directly to a room. Our team uses Join.me frequently, and while our dev team all have their own "rooms" (so if Bob needs to have a meeting with a few devs in Chicago, he can just throw join.me/bob at them) I've long wanted to be able to just call a number and get thrown right into the audio stream.

It looks great! Are you willing to talk a bit how this is implemented? i.e. js stack, libraries etc.

Hey superklevint! I explained our stack inside the Video room www.getnando.com/showhn and I'll do it here again:

We're using ReactJS with Redux which is really nice. It lets us pass data effortlessly and the whole ReactJS paradigm is just great.

We're using a couple of services -- Firebase to handle our coderpad and Sendbird to handle our chat.

Then we're using pretty vanilla webRTC to a server, so the peer connections aren't peer to peer, but peer to server to peer. This makes scalability better as well as connectivity (one guy who has really slow internet won't affect the group as much).

Then our application server is a simple NodeJS server that manages each individual room.

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