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Re:Mmhmm by frereubu on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:05PM (#25213665)
If the people who develop this app are here, it took me quite a while to figure out that it uses a "virtual camera" to work, and therefore potentially works with most videoconferencing software. That should be front and centre - for a while I wasn't sure whether it was a separate videoconferencing app because the screenshots are just the app, rather than it being used in Zoom or whatever. The only reference is "Funner Zooming", but for some reason that wasn't explicit enough for me without an example Zoom screenshot.
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Re:Mmhmm by AlexTWithBeard on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:24PM (#25213873)
It took me a while to figure out what this product is. Much more time than I was willing to spend on it.

- Be the star you are!

- Level up your presentations!

- Make high-quality video content in minutes!

- Direct everyone's attention!

What do you guys offer? Bullhorns? Public speaking training? Pro camera rental?

I feel like an old fart.

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Re:Mmhmm by encom on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:03PM (#25215655)
It's not just you. I looked around for a bit, then bounced and figured someone in HN comments would mention what this is. And while I appreciate that the name is not another -ly -fy or -r or something with umlauts, "Mmhmm" is just... really bad.
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Re:Mmhmm by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @04:58PM (#25214741)
Even after opening the link I couldn't shake the feeling it had something to do with that awful Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm song from Crash Test Dummies, I hated that song and I hate this app even though they are evidently not connected after all.
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Re:Mmhmm by mwcampbell on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:35PM (#25215506)
Speaking of music, this app's name made me think of the album MMHMM by Relient K, which has a hidden track also called MMHMM (at the beginning of the CD).
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Re:Mmhmm by jiofih on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:30PM (#25215808)
That song is awesome. Great story.
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Re:Mmhmm by tomcam on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @08:05PM (#25215984)
Mmhmm
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Re:Mmhmm by Dave9k on Thursday November 26, 2020 @05:45PM (#25224089)
I actually thought it was a well made parody site, funner zooming/mmhmm, the bs marketing speak. On further inspection it actually looks like it could be useful in presenting slides, like a corporate obs or something.
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Re:Mmhmm by throwaway201103 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:41PM (#25214067)
I guess I'm old too. Unless you're presenting to children, I'm not sure who wants this. Adding funny visual gags to your content isn't going to do much for me except make me annoyed with you.

If you have something worthwhile or compelling to say, that will stand on its own.

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Re:Mmhmm by robofanatic on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @04:15PM (#25214383)
Well "presenting to children" is a big market now. 2020 has brought a lot of different kinds of people online, it's not just developers or people in corporate sector anymore. These days my kids hangout on Zoom every single school day, which is way more than I have ever been in a virtual video conference in my life.
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Re:Mmhmm by radley on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:15PM (#25216516)
The gags are placeholders for actual presentations. Essentially the service allows people to watch you and your presentation at the same time, which is superior to only one or the other.

In time, it should allow you to present a more professional presentation. It's essentially the difference between 2010 & 2020 YouTube videos.

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Re:Mmhmm by Liquid_Fire on Thursday November 26, 2020 @04:40AM (#25218411)
No thanks, I don't want to watch slides mangled by video compression tuned for a camera. I'd much rather see them through screen sharing, which is optimised for compressing on-screen content without making it look terrible.

This should just be a feature of Zoom, Teams, etc. And it probably is.

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Re:Mmhmm by Stratoscope on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:23PM (#25215425)
Wait, "Funner Zooming" is a reference to Zoom meetings?

I saw the phrase next to the bouncing down arrow and I thought it meant that when I scrolled down, things would zoom around on the screen. Or something.

Perhaps my mind had been primed for that by this discussion from the other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25191802

It honestly did not occur to me that the phrase had something to do with Zoom meetings. I use Zoom nearly every day but I'd never heard of Zooming before.

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Re:Mmhmm by jspash on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:00AM (#25218842)
I missed that discussion yet had the same trouble grokking the phrase. Even after watching the video and sort of understanding what they do it didn't click until I read your comment.

But then again, I rarely use Zoom since my company is beholden to Gsuite.

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Re:Mmhmm by ObsoleteNerd on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:23PM (#25215783)
I looked through almost their entire site and halfway through these comments here before I realised this WASN'T a competitor to Zoom/Skype/etc. The website completely and utterly makes it look like video conferencing software, to the point where I was digging through their pages trying to find out if it was encrypted or what their back end was for the streaming.

For a product about presentation, their presentation needs a lot of work.

Also the price is utterly ridiculous. When I thought it was a full video conferencing suite I was on the fence about it "possibly" being worth USD$10/mth, but as a pure virtual-video-editor it's maybe worth $20-40 once-off and definitely not worth any form of subscription.

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Re:Mmhmm by thomascgalvin on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:28PM (#25213927)
Yeah, I scanned the landing page, then scanned the "Product" page, and couldn't figure out of this was an add-on to Zoom, or a competitor with Zoom. That absolutely needs to be made clear right at the top.
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Re:Mmhmm by dakial1 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @04:44PM (#25214633)
I second this. Saw the site, and was not sure if it was another Zoom or another Snap Camera.
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Re:Mmhmm by IshKebab on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:54PM (#25214186)
Yeah I thought it was talking about actually zooming for a minute. Definitely took me half of the video to figure out what it was.
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