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Re:Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for ... by nxmnxm99 on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:05PM (#25039888)
> (Our own team works out of a Gather office--most of our team has actually never met each other in person)

Yikes. As someone who's worked remotely for over a decade, I can't imagine starting a company with people I've never had a beer with.

Re:Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for ... by alexlchen2019 on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:30PM (#25040180)
Hey y'all, member of the engineering team here: I actually have become extremely close friends with a lot of our team members here at Gather, even though we haven't met in person — something about dropping by my coworkers' desks really makes it feel like we're together. But yeah, you really do miss out on grabbing a beer, or, for instance, knowing how tall your teammates are haha
Re:Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for ... by grahamburger on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:42PM (#25040311)
Times are a' changing! I started a job in August and haven't physically met any of my coworkers. With a culture of 'video on during calls by default' it's actually not that bad, imo. Much better than would have been possible 10 years ago.