Show HN: GoTeam – Simple Video Meetings

This is an alternative to Zoom. Some background: I work for Lookback, and our main thing is doing video recordings of remote user research (UX) sessions. For the "remote" part we use our in-house built WebRTC server network. At some point last year we got fed up with Slack calls, Zoom, Appear In, etc and said to ourselves "hey, we got this tech ourselves, let's use it!" So we've made this chat and used it for our meetings for over a year now, and it is time to share the joy :)

We share it for free now and we hope it will take off. If it is successful, we will think about bandwidth costs and monetization later. One thing this does give us already now is "free testing" of our Live server infra. The idea is an old one, that any meeting room can be created on the fly like https://goteam.video/whatever-you-want Performance wise we regularly have meetings with 20+ people, how this scales out is yet to be determined (please tell me if you find a limit!). If it takes off, we also plan to build native mobile clients (no cross platform frameworks).

Details: It's a full mesh network built on AWS where we put a server in every available AWS region. It's not using WebRTC peer-to-peer but instead opts for client-server. This obviously has privacy drawbacks, but recall our main business is _recording_ live sessions, so even if we don't (yet) allow recording of meetings, the solution is mainly for that scenario. However our experience is that client-server typically works better for meetings spread out over the globe because AWS internal transits are much faster than the open internet.

We're trying to do privacy right, I wrote some about it here: https://tinyurl.com/y9mv9jgm

Happy to answer any questions about the tech or otherwise!