July 12, 2018

Found an awesome new role because of Indie Hackers

I recently posted on IH that I was looking for a change from my then-current role, and decided to throw it out to the IH community to see if there might be a good fit with any of you awesome people.

I got a ton of responses, including one from a startup called Hallway that I ended up accepting - and I'm really excited about it :) Wanted to say thanks to @csallen for putting together such an amazing community!

In case you want to know more, Hallway lets you collaborate remotely, with all the tools you might need inside one online meeting room:

📹Video calls

💻Screenshare

💬Chat

📑Shared docs

📝Whiteboard

🔧Code pad

📺Watch YouTube together

✅Tasks

📊Polls

📈Slides

Some use cases: Meetings, coding bootcamps, online tutoring, gaming, YouTube watch parties for long distance relationships, etc.

If you have ever had a video call before, I would be super grateful for some feedback from you:

👉 What service(s) you use? (Google Hangouts, Skype, Zoom, etc.)

👉 What you like/dislike about it?

👉 What features you wish it had?

We are trying to figure out what other tools would be beneficial, and what would make remote collaboration much better :)

Thanks for your feedback!!!


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    YEAAAA MANNN!!

    Just came in here to say that Davis is one of the nicest/helpful dudes I've come across IH and is a super hustler when it comes to marketing and shipping :)

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      Thanks Kevin!!! Reading that made my day 🤓

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    P.S. If you want to be a Hallway beta tester, you can sign up on our Product Hunt Ship page: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/hallway-2

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    Congrats dude! Been a remote worker before and got lots of ideas. Feel free to email me Ben.tossell@gmail.com

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      Thanks Ben! I will definitely send you an email 😊

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    In terms of video calls: we use Appear.in because you can create your own custom rooms really easily and there's no downloads. It's also very reliable.

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      Nice! Do you use their free version or pro version?

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        Just their free version!

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    Congrats Davis, hard work is paying off! To the infinity and beyond! 🚀

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      Thank you Bart!

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    Zoom.

    Poor audio quality. If it's a group meeting, everyone who's not physically in the room has a hard time being heard. Some of this could be alleviated by the individual running the meeting, but it's not always done. Frequently there's a laptop setup somewhere in the conference room that no one really pays attention to, it's just there to act as a "phone".

    Features to fix those problems ^ :D

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      This is awesome feedback! So you are talking more of a mixed meeting where some people are dialing in remote and some people are there in person?

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        Exactly right. Its that mixed scenario that occurs in my work place quite frequently. When you're on the remote end you feel like a second class citizen.

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    Zoom/ GoToMeeting mainly

    Zoho/Slack/Flock to keep it tidy!

    And congrats :)

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      Thanks, really appreciate the feedback! 😀

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    That's great Davis, congratulations! :)

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      Thanks Mark!

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        It's awesome!

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          Thanks Mark U!

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