They will notice that they look more like photographs than still frames from a webcam chat.
My initial reaction was that they were profile images representing the people involved in the chat. I have a hunch that "normal" people will think the same.
Otherwise, the product looks very interesting, looking forward to having an opportunity to try it out.
Agreed. My initial impression was those photos were static implying that the service was audio chat only. I went looking through the features to see if video chat was possible.
I somewhat agree that "normal" folks won't notice - at least they wouldn't specifically mention anything about stock photos (and these don't look terribly "stocky" compared to others). But, overall the trust or incentive to take the next step that needs to be captured in the first 5-15 seconds will be lower. Even if they can't express it, it just wouldn't feel right in their subconscious.
Also, if possible have the photos set up so the person is facing towards the action you want them to take - the get a meeting room button. Anyways, just a tip, I think it looks very clean overall. And, just went to a meeting room and the onboarding is great. I was in a meeting room within 10 seconds - very nice.
it's just a start for version 1, day 1, but point taken - happy to place better pics so email us your screenshots at team at meetings.io and we'll put up the best ones :-)
Sorry to hijack the thread, but are you planning on raising the 5 person cap? We are an eight person distributed team, and gotomeeting only allows 6 cameras at a time, so the last two people to the meeting are always getting ignored. I would happily accept a lower quality feed if we could get 10+ people in a single room.
I think what makes it confusing for me is that the link between the pictures isn't hugely clear. If it could be more clear that there's actually a meeting taking place, it could be easier to make the link. ie. have some similar object or other attribute in each that assists the mind in forming a connection.
I can't seem to get it to work -- all I can see is myself, after inviting someone sitting next to me. He gets the same thing. And we're both at the same URL.
I get this error when trying to create a meeting (Chrome/Ubuntu). I was never prompted with a Accept/Deny dialog, so I'm guessing the meeting features just don't work on Linux?:
Oops, looks like you clicked Deny.
You need to enable peer assist and your webcam to
participate in the meeting.
Hmmm... they appear to be using iterative room names. Makes it not particularly difficult to find other chats that are active. Not sure how much I would like people randomly entering my meetings.
You should probably auto-populate the Date/Time fields with their existing values since you do that with the Title field already (it's a little confusing otherwise):
Ugh, RTFM. I skimmed the no signups, no downloads, and basic meeting details, and it all felt strangely familiar.
I like that you noted it's a videoconferencing app. Meetings.io is a good name, but it doesn't really imply video conferencing to me. That's a pretty nit-picky (and subjective) concern though, and I'll likely give it a try.
Very nice. A year ago, I would have been floored. Now, with Google+ Hangouts, not so much. For demonstration purposes it would be nice to have a public lounge where a user could say, give me (three) random people in the lounge waiting to hang-out. That way a user can try it without having to send an invite to someone else, etc. But even that sure was easy. Congrats on your first day!
The continuous stream of new web/video conferencing services acknowledges the desire (and potential) to build a better user-experience in this industry. Unfortunately, most of these new services miss the hardest part about the industry: go-to-market. Webex, GoToMeeting, and others spend millions of dollars a quarter trying to reach all of us and our corporate buyers. That coverage and mindshare makes it really challenging to get meaningful traction in the web conferencing market these days.
Being able to dial into a conference instead of just out would be super-useful, especially if, like reserving a URL for a room, you could also reserve a dial-in code. We have a regular morning meeting in my office for which we currently use Google Hangouts, and it's not really practical to keep track of who's traveling or whatever and won't be able to video-conference in.
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Otherwise, the product looks very interesting, looking forward to having an opportunity to try it out.
The issue isn't so much that they're stock images per se - more that they don't give me an idea of what the product actually looks like in use.
Also, if possible have the photos set up so the person is facing towards the action you want them to take - the get a meeting room button. Anyways, just a tip, I think it looks very clean overall. And, just went to a meeting room and the onboarding is great. I was in a meeting room within 10 seconds - very nice.
Any tips?
Oops, looks like you clicked Deny.
You need to enable peer assist and your webcam to participate in the meeting.
Edit: and only on safari, chrome works fine.
Chrome uses its own, internal version of Flash and not the "system" Flash.
Otherwise looks like a pretty slick site.
As for room security - ensure you enable the auth for new entries - then people must have your OK to enter.... secure enuf for my purposes... for free
I like that it's instant and also the ad-hoc nature of it. I think this will appeal to many market segments.
Can't wait to see the web sharing and other collaboration features once they come online.
http://www.evernote.com/shard/s146/sh/0b9f462b-f1d7-46d8-8f6...
I like that you noted it's a videoconferencing app. Meetings.io is a good name, but it doesn't really imply video conferencing to me. That's a pretty nit-picky (and subjective) concern though, and I'll likely give it a try.
You could check if the settings dialog is shown at all (see https://github.com/cataclysmicrewind/CameraDetection/blob/ma...) and if not then manually open up the (P2P) settings dialog.
I would suggest working on the navbar just a little bit, to have its look not be so readily recognizable as the 'Twitter Bootstrap, yo!' one.
It should be "Hang out with co-workers and teams", not "Hangout with co-workers and teams".
Beautiful application.
Does anyone know which ports does it use?