JohanCutych

It's true! This was done with an early prototype of the Welder so the quality is not the best. We should've reshot it already, but we love the vibe of it, haha.

haha we are asking the same question!

We have an uploader system. So if they quit too soon, you can always send them a link so they can finish the uploading.

Thanks for this valuable point of view! This is exactly our focus right now. The next two weeks we are doing a sprint called "Improving reliability by UX" where we are going to do exactly what you said.

Good question! We are quite similar. The main difference is, I believe in the attitude. We focus a lot on the ease-of-use and reliability and not so much on adding robust features that are requested by B2Bs like podcasting studios or media.

I also believe we are heading in different directions as we want to shift from being just a tool that does HQ recording remotely to start-to-end solution to help startups and product teams produce purposeful content with ease.

We believe there is a lot of space for an improvement for businesses in term of showing who is behind the product, building empathy and educating their customers. The process of putting out meaningful content and building brand love is cumbersome right now and takes a lot of energy.

yep, it's for content purposes. Podcasts, videocasts etc... I wouldn't participate in a job interview with demand like this haha.

Audio is recorded in HQ too, thanks for the feedback, seems like it's not clear enough.

About the phone on linux - it will work if there is any solution out there that allows you to use your phone as a webcam on linux, Welder will pick that up.

https://medium.com/@freeyourdesktopblog/need-a-webcam-in-ubu... this might be handy

It does, both audio and video in HQ locally.

Hey! We finally decided to show Welder to HN.

We built Welder for ourselves as we are a small product team that was forced to go remote and wanted to produce content.

We used Zoom, but the quality was.. Well, S*t.

It’s a super easy way to record full quality recordings remotely as each participant is doing local recording which is progressively uploaded to our servers so as soon as the call ends, it’s ready for editing.

We’ve validated the product in 2 weeks by doing LP and running YT ads. Built MVP in 1 month and found out no one used it as we did a mistake by not validating if Electron app is ok for people to download.

Lessons learned, Welder is now browsers based. We decided to stay bootstrap and right now we are trying to find a pivot from a tool that “Allows you to record an interview in HQ remotely” to a tool for a team like us to produce meaningful content with ease from start to end.

I would love to hear your feedback either about the tool or about your content creation process. As we are doing extensive research on the topic of how startups and product teams produce content.

P.S. We have now quite a lot of experience with running online video service in production for some time, so if you have any questions regarding this topic, let us know we will be more than happy to answer.