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I don't understand, how is this faster? There is nothing on the page but a button that says Start. When I click it, it takes me to https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_ which then redirects to a page that says "Please wait" for about 5 seconds. After than I get another redirect to a google page asking me to install a plugin. Why do I need a plugin to use Hangouts? At the moment I just open my Gmail tab. What problem exactly are you trying to solve here?

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As I said in other comments sometimes on hipchat I need to have a call with teammates that I do not have on gmail/hangouts. So I need to create a hangout with a link to share so that I can copy it into hipchat. There is no way to do that on gmail. You need to open google plus that takes a while to load, then you need to go to the bottom right corner and wait for the Start video chat button to appear and finally click it.

I was not aware that there was a link (https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_) that lets you create a hangout with a link to share so that other people can join it. So I created a simple landing page with a button created with google hangouts api. After learning about the link I mentioned before, I changed the google hangout button by a normal link.

What I don't understand is why this got voted up. It is webpage with a link.

Probably because many of us had the same issue: no easy way to create google hangout with a link to share where anybody can join. After creating the page with the google hangout api somebody mentioned a link to resolve the issue I/we had. Since it is very likely that many do not know about the link or do not want to learn it, I think the webpage is useful. It is something very simple and stupid, but it is useful enought, at least for me.

He's trying to make a problem, and then solve it.

You got it

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