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Re:Notion's Midlife Crisis on Saturday September 28, 2024 @09:30PM (#41684127)
If you wrote a book. I would buy it.
Thanks! I would love to learn more about why you think its great. Do you mind emailing me to follow up - [email protected] or you can join us on Slack
Thanks dapick! I would love to learn more about what you like about it. Do you mind emailing me to follow up - [email protected] or you can join us on Slack
Ali here - can you expand on your question? The idea is so people spend less time building infrastructure around fintechs and just build the fintech they want. The way to stand out is by building the better mousetrap.

Ask HN: Have you been rejected from YC or other incubators?

I am launching a side project with a few other YC, TechStars & 500 alums called YC Rejects. The idea is to help founders applying to any incubator with advice and support so they can get in. I was rejected twice from YC myself. If you’re interested, please check out the website and share the link with founders you know or share your story below. We aim to help everyone who applies within...

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Keep crushing it Kyriakos and Raouf!
Re:A new take on remote/hybrid standups on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:40PM (#26259433)
Definitely!
Re:A new take on remote/hybrid standups on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:53AM (#26250447)
Nice! How long have you been doing this for? Is the team all engineers?
Re:A new take on remote/hybrid standups on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:52AM (#26250440)
Yup this makes sense. Also to the original comment, our approach is not for everyone. It definitely skews extroverted.
Re:A new take on remote/hybrid standups on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:51AM (#26250423)
LOL we have enough fires burning as it is..
Re:A new take on remote/hybrid standups on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:50AM (#26250407)
Great feedback. Thank you! Will look into these comments!
Re:A new take on remote/hybrid standups on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:50AM (#26250404)
Fully agree. It's part of the problem we are thinking about. How do we make remote work fun for extroverts while not sidelining others? This was one take at the problem and I really appreciate the feedback you gave :)
Re:A new take on remote/hybrid standups on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:48AM (#26250384)
Thank you for this opinion! I completely hear you on forced-socialization ideas. I also understand that there is a place for work and a place for fun. However, I am curious on what you have tried or seen on top performing teams around building camaraderie and coming together - especially when remote.
Re:A new take on remote/hybrid standups on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:46AM (#26250342)
Appreciate this comment. Can you tell me more about this open Teams chat? Is it a video/audio only chat or it's just a channel like #random or #watercooler?
Re:A new take on remote/hybrid standups on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @04:17PM (#26243002)
I am curious about your thoughts on this approach to standups. Excusing the self promo of calling it a Rally, do you think adding in some time before or after your standup has been useful to bring your teams together? Do you think adding more people to a dedicated meeting with multiple breakout functions like Rally is a useful way to improve cross company collaboration? Are the problems of connecting and cross collaborating real problems your remote teams are facing?
Re:2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:14AM (#25748821)
These are great ideas - we are building something similar in Rally.video
Re:2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:02AM (#25748644)
Who are these folks? I have a tonne of suggestions and would love to give feedback!
This looks really good and well timed. What will you do if Firebase builds something similar?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020) on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @11:51PM (#24349820)
Rally.video | Engineering Positions | Toronto, CA | Remote | Full Time

Video calls are generally very exhausting. After being on a 20 person Zoom call, we decided to build Rally. Rally is a video application that makes it easy to hop between breakout conversations. Users can see and hear other conversations around them, as if they were in a shared space.

Rally feels like a real party or gathering, as opposed to feeling like a meeting. Instead of being stuck in a giant gallery view or siloed into breakout rooms, you are free to switch between tables and rooms as you like. Instead of everyone being on mute, you can choose to vibe off of the audible laughter and chatter from neighbouring tables in the room. You can also create private tables for more personal conversations and take the stage to present to everyone around you.

We launched on HN as part of YC’s newest cohort, and have been focused on organizations using us for happy hours, networking, virtual cafeteria’s and more. Our vision for Rally is to be the one solution where online interactions are more social. This could mean sidebar conversations during a presentation, matching you to the perfect person to network with, or just having a virtual cafeteria for serendipitous conversations.

We hare recruiting for two main engineering roles, and would be interested in speaking to people who would like to be operations interns. See our roles here: https://www.workatastartup.com/companies/22247

Https://rally.video

Chat is coming very soon. It won't be the same chat as all the other video applications. Chat streams tend to make it hard pay attention to the conversation so we purposely didn't add chat just yet.
Can you try chrome? We were working on Firefox until their most recent update.
We have! We should also chat if you want - [email protected]

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