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Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by rayiner on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:47PM (#16996002)
Inter-operable video and phone conferencing without prior setup required. Probably half the video conferences I’ve tried to participate in in the last year have been a disaater, with people having technical problems dialing in, dropping out, etc. Even phone confernces (using VOIP conference providers) have awful quality. I want to be able to email some people a link, and with no account creation, registration, or software install required, get an extrwmely high quality low latency (comparable to FaceTime) voice/video conference.
Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by simon_acca on Friday May 04, 2018 @05:13PM (#16998403)
I have been using jitsi for the past year or so and the experience is pretty much what you describe.

https://meet.jit.si

Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by SOLAR_FIELDS on Saturday May 05, 2018 @08:42AM (#17001569)
I used to use this in my company and while joining and creating meetings is pretty painless the audio/video quality was pretty crap. Perhaps they have improved in the three years since I've used it.
Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by jokh on Saturday May 05, 2018 @02:36PM (#17003120)
It's pretty good now.
Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by iamdave on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:39PM (#16996494)
Even phone confernces (using VOIP conference providers) have awful quality.

VoIP, especially multi-tenant voip like conferencing is 70% dependent on YOUR local network connection and 30% the provider's infrastructure. Having a high bandwidth pipe is no guarantee for 100% clear and jitterless voip communication. Have you had a network engineer take a deep inspection of voip traffic to see if there's any QoS or packet filtering going on that could degrade performance (i.e. if you're a small office that has your voice traffic occurring side by side with literally every other network device you're GOING to have a bad time).

Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by mabbo on Friday May 04, 2018 @02:19PM (#16996899)
Amazon has the entire company dogfooding Chime[0]. Pretty happy with it. Really good for video/phone conferences. Half-decent imitation of slack for chatting.

You can join a concall via phone number + pin, from your desktop, or from the mobile app. The mobile app will even let you view screenshares or video conf.

[0]https://aws.amazon.com/chime/

Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by akhilcacharya on Saturday May 05, 2018 @02:18AM (#17000609)
I personally didn't mind it, but I saw a lot of dislike of Chime internally compared to something like Slack. Anecdotal of course. Worked great for large chat groups though.
Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by mullen on Friday May 04, 2018 @08:11PM (#16999446)
The place I work uses BlueJeans and I really like it.

The dedicated app runs on just about everything'; iOS, OSX, Windows, Android.

On phones you can use Video and Audio or just plain Audio (Low Bandwidth mode).

You can send your BlueJeans room URL and they can join with just a web browser (Web browsers get less features though). Non-Hosts can join the meeting without signing up for anything. They just click and join.

I think the audio and video is pretty good. Much better than Facetime, which is not a good comparison because Facetime is pretty terrible. Audio quality is good.

There is dedicated hardware that supports BlueJeans so you can use it in conferences rooms.

You can record meetings.

All the standard stuff like screen share and what not. You can even ping pong back and forth. I worked with someone where they had to type in some stuff and I had to type in other stuff on their computer. They just joined my BlueJeans room and when I was not typing, they could type. No clicking to take control or give it back, it was more or less seamless.

Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by rb808 on Friday May 04, 2018 @02:48PM (#16997189)
I also want a screen for the audio/video conference to show where the sound is coming from, so we can mute that one guy who doesn't turn his mike off and is heavy breathing on the call.
Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by KillerRabbitt on Sunday May 06, 2018 @10:11AM (#17006469)
We've been using http://appear.in/ and it's worked perfectly for zero setup video conferencing.
Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by cakefactory on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:33PM (#16997518)
Full disclosure. I work for Synergy Sky. For a single person our products are way too cumbersome, but if your issue is also on the level of an organisation/company, then your problem is what we solve.
Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by tixocloud on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:55PM (#16996075)
We pay for a high-end solution at work and still experience the same issues.
Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by realPubkey on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:17PM (#16996284)
Have you tried appear.in ?
Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by Joeri on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:55PM (#16996666)
I’ve used it several times and while the UI was nice the audio quality was poor every time. It doesn’t seem to handle audio feedback loops as well as other videoconferencing tools.
Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by robbyt on Saturday May 05, 2018 @02:47AM (#17000683)
Try using Ethernet instead of wireless, and make sure you have a decent router.
Re:Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential star... by jcfrei on Friday May 04, 2018 @02:00PM (#16996716)
maybe uberconference.com?