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remotelyyourson Ask HN: What are you working on?

I'm building Reslash - a video calling app which is the antithesis of Zoom. You can play with everything - backgrounds, gifs, stickers.

You can recreate a bar lounge, classroom, office, 80s party and more. It also has spatial audio - just move closer to talk to people, like you do IRL.

We launched 3 weeks ago. Have about 2k users right now.

Check us out at https://reslash.co

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

Thank you so much!

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

We can boring as well. Just change the background to black and disable the ability of making any changes.

This is the point actually. If "boring" is your video call vibe, go for it. It's still an expression.

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

Our focus is to communicate that you can REALLY make the space feel like your own. It should be an emotional response. The imagery on the website may give the idea of fun because we're focusing on help crowds socialize but that's not our end goal.

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

Interesting take. Yeah, we want to help people build spaces that they can feel connected to. Creating a "vibe" is underrated online.

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

Hey! We fixed this.. Can you please try again?

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

That's cool! Try us out and let me know what you think?

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

We'll be building a proximity chat system soon!

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

We're thinking of adding Twitch integration which will let you have Twitch watch parties as well :) What do you think?

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

You can turn it off! You can personalize the space to make it work for you. That's one of our key differentiators. We don't want to force you into a single format.

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

YAY!

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

Valid feedback. Reworking this. Thank you!

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

I need to check out Palace soon. Do give us a shot and let me know what you think :)

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

We actually have chess! Do give it a try ;) We'll be adding a lot more!

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

You're right!

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

You mean the same room? We've built our solution using webrtc. For the infrastructure bit, I'll have our CTO write back to this comment as well.

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

Awesome! How was the experience like? We've tried multiple products. This is third pivot. Took two months to build this.

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

We'll come and find you haha

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

It is so much more fun! If you use discord for gaming, then the experience would be similar. However, if you use it with crowds, it'll be much easier to have multiple, spontaneous conversations within the crowd without getting into multiple threads/rooms. It is also a lot more visual. So, you can customize the space and really set the mood with this.

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

Thanks! You're right. It is webrtc and react.js.

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

I get it. We wanted to have this to really help people customize the space the way they like. Gather has a different interpretation of it and more in line with what you are looking for.

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

You've not seen our product.. We may have gifs like here.fm but our spatial engine is completely different. Plus, we've built it to handle crowds. You can have up to 100 people in a room. Here has a limit of about 12.

Btw, the real OG of this space is New Hive. It has been an inspiration of many such products.

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

We actually are working on a broadcast feature so that you can have speakers talk across rooms. And people can still interact with each other. If you will be interested in trying it out, let me know.

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

I enjoyed this comment :) Just wanted to tell you that we're not funded :P

The 18 apps may have similar elements but are approaching this very differently.

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

You're right. The interactions can a lot more "natural" than it is right now.

remotelyyourson Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

Hey, this is fixed. Can you try signing up again please? Let me know if it still doesn't work.