Comment by cornholio
1 year ago
Does it use WebRTC? The last time I've looked at this - and what stopped me from releasing a more polished MVP of the same low impact continuous meeting-not-a-meeting concept - is that the only way to scale WebRTC is to use your own paid infrastructure. The only peer to peer topology available WebRTC clients support is a star, so without a multiplexing server you are practically limited to a handful of peers in any session.
So you are either offering a slow and very limited free service, or you need to pay hand over fist and burn venture capital to basically compete with Zoom and WebRTC. Slowing the video stream to very low FPS does help somewhat with scaling, but makes for a niche product.
If you can crack P2P multiplexing and offer an unlimited free service, and tack on some fremium model on that, that this thing can take off like a rocketship, if for no other reason that every team leader in the world wants a continuous feed of their remote worker's desktop. A free and capable screen sharing app can become THE tool for collaboration, disrupting things like Slack if the right features are there.
I'm seriously interested to cofound something like that, let me know if anything I've said makes sense to you.
Please do not do this. The product you're describing would make the world a significantly worse place.
The market would punish you too.
> every team leader in the world wants a continuous feed of their remote worker's desktop.
"every" -- why?
Do high-performance teams have low or high trust?
I'm not sure what you are arguing here: that low performance teams do not exist, or that they do not need to be managed, or that we should provide free educational resources to their managers instead of selling them the tools they want?
It's a real problem real companies face, look at r/overemployed for a taste.
Would YOU like to work with your manager looking over your shoulder at all times? A good manager builds trust, rather than needing to rely on control.
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Ah, yes, consistent spying on workers to make managers feel better. How about you feed each frame to an LLM for AI powered productivity monitoring? How about you incorporate web cam for next gen AR AI companionship? How about you make it customizable so that managers can easily roll out and maintain appropriate cultural practices? Studies show synchronized boot clicking, twice daily, can foster excellent dedication and energy to the improtant taskd at hand. Zillion dollar idea buddy.
> if for no other reason that every team leader in the world wants a continuous feed of their remote worker's desktop
ahem GDPR?
Besides, that's absolutely the sort of enterpriseware that should be charged for.
Not relevant in the context of an employer provided machine that is used only for work related colab and the employee is aware of it.
You can charge for the enterprise features (and get the resources to develop them in the first place) after you reach a critical mass of users.
Controlling your employees' day like that is still not allowed in a lot of places with strong worker rights.
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"every team leader in the world wants a continuous feed of their remote worker's desktop"
..talk about micromanaging