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Re:Google Hangouts without the Google: Meetings.io (YC W11) ... by DanBlake on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @04:13PM (#3829425)
Some competition for us, I like it! You will soon find the major disadvantages of using flash p2p. We completely abandoned using p2p for tinychat.com as it caused way more issues than it solved.

The one bit of advice I will give you is to choose what you are trying to do. If you want to be a meeting site for teams/business, do that. If you want to be social, do that. Trying to do both will make things extremely difficult and likely alienate both sides.

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Re:Google Hangouts without the Google: Meetings.io (YC W11) ... by nl on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @09:35PM (#3830569)
Can you talk some more about the problems with P2P in flash?

I've never used it, but have always been fascinated by that feature. I imagine for your case it could have saved reasonable amounts of bandwidth too, so presumably the disadvantages really must be quite major...

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