Amp your remote meetings with BWAMP

Re:Amp your remote meetings with BWAMP by mmastrac on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:19PM (#23116452)

This is a company-wide "show HN" for us here at FullStory. We had a workforce that was 80% office-based and went to 100% remote. There was a lot we lost in that transition, so a number of engineers started working on a tool that would give us back that interaction.

On our weekly company-wide meeting we've got 100-200 people joining into the BWAMP session alongside the hangout and it adds a ton of colour.

There's also a volume slider so you can get "just enough BWAMP" and not go crazy.

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Re:Amp your remote meetings with BWAMP by jamestenglish on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:56PM (#23118157)

My experience: The first thing I see is a big in your face "please accept our cookies so that this will work!"

Uh, what is it? Do I want it to work? I tentatively click "YES COOKIES"

Big cookie plea is now replaced with a big "Sign in with Google/Slack"

Hold up! What the hell is this thing? I am not just going to potentially link you to my slack or gmail!

There is a sandbox mode button? What is this thing, why would I need to run it in a sandbox?!?!

The only way to know what this is or will do without actually trying it is to watch a youtube video and the explanation doesn't even come until 20 seconds into the video!

I imagine this would have gotten more traction on HN if your page contained even a single line of text explaining what this is: an interactive sound board. Rather than forcing users to watch a video or try out some unknown thing first.

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