Casually meet other hackers over video call (hop on whenever)
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"We strongly recommend using Sixfeet with Chrome". I wonder what issues you encountered with Firefox, that you strongly recommend against using it?
"Continue with Facebook" or "Sign in with Google"... sigh. Perhaps I'm atypical of your target audience, but for me, that's a really high barrier of "do I really want to deal with this?". Brainstorming remedies, perhaps a demo video of the site in use - the desert cart showing the tempting dish, rather than just the menu sketch with its imagined potential value severely discounted by uncertainty. Or more login options. ;) I wonder if a no-login immediately-visible public onboarding lobby, perhaps with restricted hours or population thresholds, might somehow be viable.
A meta topic, is how to make sites like this more easily visible to their target audiences?
I am using open-source video call platform Jitsi, which from my experience only worked fully reliably with Google Chrome (user feedback has been about issues with Safari/Firefox).
Great feedback with the desert cart :)
Interesting thing to think about with the meta topic! What is your perspective on that?
Perhaps establish the category as a (named?) thing, so comparison websites et al start listing and discussing? That process provides opportunities for blog posts, news articles, talks. Not my field - maybe this is already in progress.
For a tech audience, hmm...
Some tech meetups are hoping between conferencing setups. If ten+ people can be supported, perhaps offer it as a meeting venue. Also, some groups do "ambient" social, on slack or discord or such. Though my impression is small differences in onboarding friction have a big impact there.
Some fan populations, like around SpaceX, support a diversity of active communities (on reddit, facebook, websites), apps, video series, assorted small-scale commercial stuff, etc. Adding a "place to video chat about SpaceX topics" might fit right in. Events, like launches, might offer "try it now, rather than putting it off" activation energy.
Generalizing the above pattern of "might fit well with community niche X", perhaps ask current users "what communities/contexts might this be a good match for, and what might we do to support advocates/adoption there?". Perhaps think of the community advocate/champion, or the community itself, as being a customer or unit of adoption, and smooth that path?