Show HN: Fast, free online meetings - use code "hackernews" to play

I'm just going to hit the bad parts, so forgive the apparent pessimism. :)

The signup process is miserable. There's no reason to have it broken into so many steps. And damnit, after that many steps, why do I have to confirm my account via email and click a "Oh, gee, thanks. Now continue to your real account." No confirmation at all. Take me straight to my account.

Do you really need my phone number for registration ? Not a real question. Answer: NO.

Password length restriction ? Seriously ? My password isn't even that secure and I had to trim it for your guys' site. That's absurd and there's no valid excuse, no matter how plausible.

Six steps to schedule a meeting ? Not to mention the processes of each individual step -- the time selector is severely irritating; why do I have to make three conscious decisions per hour I want to select ? (First, what I click. Second, the hour. [and there's a moment of wait, is this AM/PM where maybe I cancel the click, change the AM/PM, then back] And finally, choosing AM/PM if I haven't already done so.) Just make it one nice big long list. Maybe if you want, select the hour and minutes separately.

Basically what I feel is that the UI is trying to present ALL of the features you provide without a clear understanding of how they're broken down. In your video, you present the tremendously arrogant tone of "everything else sucks, and damnit, we kick their ass" -- which is awesome!- but then I get into the product and it feels boring, bloated. Feels like a some old strung-out dude wearing ripped skinnies and a deep v-neck.

Ok, actually, it's nothing like that. That was a lie -- just that last part I mean. Skinnies rock. You should all wear skinnies.

I'll keep an eye on the product because I'm interested. Just try to embrace consistently the attitude you put forward in the video. Make sure the product truly fits that because then you've got something pretty cool. :)

Folks read the terms. Repeat read the terms. You are granting them the right in perpetuity to anything you broadcast. They can resell it without compensating you. You are waving any privacy for anything you do in a meeting.

Thanks, but no thanks.

The narration on the video is pretty funny. It didn't come across as exactly "professional" and at some point ought to be less trash talk, more demo. Nonetheless, amusing.

Maybe your competitor will be join.me. Do you know how it compares to them?

I created an account. It's a very neat interface. I'll try to use it in a meeting soon.

Chat! Please? I've done a few gotomeetings with people who were in a noisy environment and could only do text chats.

Based on the URL/name, I am disappointed this isn't some new way to goof of during boring webinars.

I was expecting some kind of racing game in canvas or destroying elements in the DOM, something like that...

You crushed it with your video. The voice over is killer. Hilarious. One of the best videos on a startup I've seen so far. You made me signed up because of humor and the product.

Why do you require that passwords only contain letters and numbers? This never makes sense to me.

We've been working on MeetingBurner for just over 9 months - fully capable online meeting / webinar platform built in the cloud (EC2 & Joyent backup) so we could offer a truly free product (with a freemium vers of course!).

Expect to see more on the build process, the tech, how we made it into LAUNCH at the last minute, etc in the future here - appreciate all the HN support and please send any and all feedback here or through the feedback list once you log in.

I like this alot. Is it just me, or is the recording missing audio?

How about a Google Translate plug-in?

Useless password requirements