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Re:Show HN: Simpler alternative to WebEx and GoToWebinar, bu... by lsiunsuex on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @12:52PM (#10004572)
Self hosting is of interest to avoid monthly fees / per event fees - I'd rather pay up front for software, run it myself and not have to pay hundreds / month - additionally, our (as most would) attendance would fluctuate - numerous times we paid for more seats at Webex only to have not as many attend as we anticipated, but the same conversely happens also - we paid for a low tier and more wanted to attend. Sometimes you don't know how many people will be interested in a specific topic, even though we try to gauge interest by forcing registration via our website.

Also - self hosting might lend itself to tighter integration. It would be awesome to embed the broadcast page directly into my events page, instead of emailing everyone a link to webex and maybe they got the email, maybe they didn't, maybe they missed it, etc...

.mp4 is fine - was just concerned it might be some proprietary format like Webex uses.

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Re:Show HN: Simpler alternative to WebEx and GoToWebinar, bu... by Adams472 on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @01:29PM (#10004851)
Good feedback. Thanks! Agreed on the pricing model. We'd prefer to not have a bad pricing model be a reason you need to host yourself. Perhaps, it means some type of elastic pricing where you have a base plan and pay per additional attendee?

I believe the problem with WebEx and others is they have to know how many attendees you expect upfront so that they can put you on the right server. I think we can solve that.

Embedding on your events page is a great idea! We've talked about that. We've heard the reminder emails are notorious for not showing up in the inbox.

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Re:Show HN: Simpler alternative to WebEx and GoToWebinar, bu... by scottmwinters on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @01:00PM (#10004646)
".mp4 is fine - was just concerned it might be some proprietary format like Webex uses."

Exactly what I was going to say. I've never understood what webex was thinking there

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