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By any mean, please feel free to reach out to me at mailan@padka.com if you want to share your thought,I will be happy to hear from you!

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

Wish there were a "Like" button! haha

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

Thank you for your kind words. Yes, actually that was one of the reasons we came up with the app, my co-founder has an 8 year old daughter and I remember she said "No kids want to be on Zoom". While Zoom is terrific for our remote team, we hope to bring something more for teaching and learning. Definitely when the time comes, we will approach schools districts and hopefully over the challenge of school district IT!

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

I'm sorry to hear that. Our MVP requires macOS Big Sur 11.0 or above. Hopefully we can get Catalina to work very soon!

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

They're fixed now as I tried from my side. Please let me know if you see them other way :)

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

No worry. We made some changes after your comment. They look all good now from my side in Firefox and also Safari. You can have a look again if you have time Ennea :D

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

Thank you!! Looking forward to have you try it out and share your experience. Padka doesn't collect any data from user, our MVP doesn't come with any users management actually. When new version comes with any form of collecting information, we will keep users aware of :D

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

Yeah, I can imagine...

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

You get it just right! I guess the HN title I use is a bit confusing. Actually it's based on some of our initial users suggestions, they used the app as business-oriented and suggested that there are quite some creative ways to apply it.

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

So I hope you enjoy the tool!!! If you're open for us to connect and learn from your experience, it will be wonderful. My email is mailan@padka.com

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

We actually aim at education and training, the app is kind of a simplified OBS studio with features targeting the needs of educators, normally a session there last for quite some time, and theme can be very divers. Ads revenue is one of the thoughts we have.

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

Wow, yes, this is one interesting way to describe it. Thanks for the idea!

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

You're right! We aim at online teachers, online instructors and online course creators!

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

You get it right! We aim at online teachers and online instructors, however some of our initial users have been using it business-oriented and suggested that there are quite some creative ways to use the app.

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

Thank you. That's actually a great idea testing out a few landing pages for different audiences. I will figure it out. The MVP doesn't do virtual background but we plan to make it soon!

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

Thank you for pointing this out, I will have a look at it now!

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

This is so sweet, you stays long enough to know that was an invitation to cat party. No worry, next version no more cat!

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

Thanks so much for letting me know!!! First time seeing this...

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

ohhhh thank you Ennea for pointing this out. Our website is built in Wix, do you have any idea why this happens?

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

We thought about subscription (free and premium) for individual and corporation; also totally free with ads revenue is an option. To be honest, right now we are most focusing on developing the product and we haven't make decision about the business model yet. Please feel free to share your thought, I'd love to hear.

surihae93on Show HN: Padka – Make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging

Hi guys! Come and try out our app for your next Zoom sessions. It's for free and it's fun.

We build a simple set of tools that can be used with any video communication app or streaming platform (Zoom, Google Meeting, etc.), through a virtual audio device and virtual camera, sound and visual effects are injected directly into your streaming video. Our MVP requires macOS Big Sur 11.0 +

The app provides a reaction board (with memes and sound effects), collections of background music and transition videos, set of timers and dice, and a feature to share multimedia files directly on your streaming video.

The app can be download in our website https://www.padka.com/ or directly via this link https://padkaassets.s3.amazonaws.com/Padka.pkg

Please share with us your opinions and reach us out anytime especially if you find a bug, so we have a chance to win you back :P

Really appreciate your time. I'm Mai Lan and looking forward to connecting with you guys!

surihae93on Show HN: Padka, make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging in a few clicks

Thank you for pointing this out. I thought that a direct link to download the app will be better for HN users to try it out. It looks like I read it wrong?

Updated: I tried to edit the link but it's not allowed T_T

surihae93on Show HN: Padka, make your Zoom sessions more fun and engaging in a few clicks

https://www.padka.com/

Padka allows you to share videos, audios, images and play with game tools directly on your streaming video during your broadcasting or online meeting sessions. You can use Padka in all your favourite platforms to meet, teach and stream online by selecting Padka as your camera and your microphone.

Our MVP is built for macOS and requires macOS Big sur 11.0 +

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Hi guys,

We just launched our MVP last week - an application to make online sessions, including business meetings more fun and engaging. The tool is very simple and compatible with any video communication app. The tool requires Big Sur 11.0 or above.

We're giving free access and learning from user experiences. Would love to have you guys try it out and share with us your opinions not only about points to improve but also bugs, technical issues.

Please feel free to reach out! Thank you guys very much!!!