Ali_Jiwani

If you wrote a book. I would buy it.

Thanks! I would love to learn more about why you think its great. Do you mind emailing me to follow up - ali@usevenice.com or you can join us on Slack

Thanks dapick! I would love to learn more about what you like about it. Do you mind emailing me to follow up - ali@usevenice.com or you can join us on Slack

Ali here - can you expand on your question? The idea is so people spend less time building infrastructure around fintechs and just build the fintech they want. The way to stand out is by building the better mousetrap.

Keep crushing it Kyriakos and Raouf!

Definitely!

Nice! How long have you been doing this for? Is the team all engineers?

Yup this makes sense. Also to the original comment, our approach is not for everyone. It definitely skews extroverted.

LOL we have enough fires burning as it is..

Great feedback. Thank you! Will look into these comments!

Fully agree. It's part of the problem we are thinking about. How do we make remote work fun for extroverts while not sidelining others? This was one take at the problem and I really appreciate the feedback you gave :)

Thank you for this opinion! I completely hear you on forced-socialization ideas. I also understand that there is a place for work and a place for fun. However, I am curious on what you have tried or seen on top performing teams around building camaraderie and coming together - especially when remote.

Appreciate this comment. Can you tell me more about this open Teams chat? Is it a video/audio only chat or it's just a channel like #random or #watercooler?

I am curious about your thoughts on this approach to standups. Excusing the self promo of calling it a Rally, do you think adding in some time before or after your standup has been useful to bring your teams together? Do you think adding more people to a dedicated meeting with multiple breakout functions like Rally is a useful way to improve cross company collaboration? Are the problems of connecting and cross collaborating real problems your remote teams are facing?

These are great ideas - we are building something similar in Rally.video

Who are these folks? I have a tonne of suggestions and would love to give feedback!

This looks really good and well timed. What will you do if Firebase builds something similar?

Rally.video | Engineering Positions | Toronto, CA | Remote | Full Time

Video calls are generally very exhausting. After being on a 20 person Zoom call, we decided to build Rally. Rally is a video application that makes it easy to hop between breakout conversations. Users can see and hear other conversations around them, as if they were in a shared space.

Rally feels like a real party or gathering, as opposed to feeling like a meeting. Instead of being stuck in a giant gallery view or siloed into breakout rooms, you are free to switch between tables and rooms as you like. Instead of everyone being on mute, you can choose to vibe off of the audible laughter and chatter from neighbouring tables in the room. You can also create private tables for more personal conversations and take the stage to present to everyone around you.

We launched on HN as part of YC’s newest cohort, and have been focused on organizations using us for happy hours, networking, virtual cafeteria’s and more. Our vision for Rally is to be the one solution where online interactions are more social. This could mean sidebar conversations during a presentation, matching you to the perfect person to network with, or just having a virtual cafeteria for serendipitous conversations.

We hare recruiting for two main engineering roles, and would be interested in speaking to people who would like to be operations interns. See our roles here: https://www.workatastartup.com/companies/22247

Https://rally.video

Chat is coming very soon. It won't be the same chat as all the other video applications. Chat streams tend to make it hard pay attention to the conversation so we purposely didn't add chat just yet.

Can you try chrome? We were working on Firefox until their most recent update.

We have! We should also chat if you want - ali@rally.video

There are a few on the website. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x70-RB9dFs&feature=youtu.be

and more on https://rally.video/hosting

Our team thinks and builds consumer first - we're all fairly young and artistic (some of us were musicians, standup comedians, and prank show hosts in our past lives.)

We started by telling bars this could be a way to talk to your customers during COVID but they wouldn't budge. We then saw business uptake first and thought, this is what we should do, so we decided to go down this route.

Through YC we have been exploring different use cases and thus kept the platform open for anyone to try. I think what we realized is the money is in large conferences and remote teams. There will always be a free tier for consumers and smaller communities, but b2b or b2b2c seems to be the direction to take this.

I'd love to hear more ideas from you but definitely agree a fully open funnel isn't right.

interesting point

Did you try it out?

You can turn down or off the background chatter and choose to have a private table so no one can hear you or join your conversation. Also the background chatter is never high enough to disrupt ongoing conversations.

I'd suggest giving it a shot and seeing how it goes. The founding team is also pretty extroverted, so we really built this for socializing first.

nice!

haha was the party fun?

Oh just saw this. We have a shuffle feature that is similar to speakeasy but I think our room structure and goals are very different.

Houseparty is focused on social consumers and maxes out at 8 people. We are focused on networking and events that would normally require a bar or banquet hall, and right now we max out at 35. Houseparty might work best for small groups, and we find most people use it once and leave. With Rally we see people coming back at least weekly for events on our platform.