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bromuro, what game did you play?Do you know service you used? While you cannot please everyone, curious to learn more details so we have a wider appeal.

Thank you for all the feedback and points of comparison. Based on all the feedback here, we lowered our initial price point by making prizes optional.

The way https://startplaying.games/ shows feedback is a great reference for how we could handle host reviews.

Thank you for the feedback! We’ve tested out Google Meet and happy to announce we can now fully support games on Google Meet.

Founder here again!

Just wanted to thank everyone again for all the candid feedback. It’s been super helpful. We’ve already made a few changes including adding a lower price point with a “no prizes” option and other copy updates. We’re also hard at work to add more compelling social proof.

Thank you HN community!

Great question. Unfortunately, we need to use Zoom at the moment because we require the breakout room functionality. We are looking into how to support other platforms but don’t have an ETA yet.

Thanks for kind words sentinel. Totally agreed about the two pain points you described with existing remote activities:

1. Not getting to know your teammates better 2. Not being fun

This is what really led us to want to do something different with Gamejoy. To this end, we try to train our hosts and pick games that not only encourage participants to have fun but also get to know each other better—through interactive and maybe slightly embarrassing questions. :-)

And, agree about needing to continue to experiment with games. We have a couple of ideas in the pipeline but we want to make sure they bring that combination of fun + team building that we want.

Thanks for the feedback! And, FWIW, remoteteams.fun is a pretty great domain name. Appreciate your point about hiring a designer and adding more social proof. A video of people having a good time would be great but we haven't been able to get a one yet for confidentiality reasons. I think it's definitely something we should prioritize.

We're still in the early stages but are seeing decent repeat business with other teams at an organization wanting to run a similar game. We do try to encourage social sharing by providing winning pictures and prizes.

Thanks so much the feedback. We've made the prizes toggle-able so now the price point is a bit lower.

ircshotty, thank you for the additional data point. Part of the reason for the higher price is that we provide prizes to the winning team. Perhaps we need to consider a lower price point without prizes. Would that help?

Or, maybe we need make the inclusion of prizes clearer in how the price is positioned.

That's a really great point about the role of HR generalists and your suggestion about moving to a more self-service model. We'll definitely consider this. Thanks for the feedback!

That's fair. Would definitely not consider this a concept as we have many paid, satisfied customers but we're always iterating on our website/product based on feedback and this is definitely an area of improvement. But point taken about "making a first impression".

How do you balance making a good first impression with getting feedback on an early-ish version of your product?

abhinuvpitale, love your suggestion about scaling to a platform to connect "live hosts". One of our hosts is actually an out-of-work actress affected by the pandemic and a big goal of mission is to help more artists affected like this. So, your suggestion really takes this to the next level!

Thanks GordonS. Really appreciate the data point. Interesting, the few managers we talked to as part of our user research indicated a much higher acceptable price point for employee engagement initiatives and the cost savings during the pandemic. Looks like we need to do more pricing research here.

Great feedback. We could definitely work on improving the testimonials and social proof on the website. Honestly, we weren't expecting such a strong response on HN so didn't much as much thought/effort into this as we should. We'll work on improving this ASAP.

We're seeing a live host as a main part of our value proposition. The host not only helps ensure an optimal game experience but also supports the team to get to know each better with fun questions and ice-breakers.

Long-term, we're hoping this could be also be a way to employ artists impacted by the pandemic as well.

Curious, what do you think would be a more reasonable price that would "justify this price for an hour"?

Thanks for the feedback. We made some changes that will hopefully make this more obvious.

That's fair feedback about the price and this is not for everyone. We're hoping people will experience value in prizes, a trained host, team-building aspects like ice breakers, and a high-quality game experience.

Hi HN! Founder here. Just wanted to share my latest venture with the HN community.

Backstory: the teams at my company got really tired of the usual remote "Happy Hour" activities and thought it would be fun to do something a little different — a little more fun! I decided to run a session of “Family Feud” for my team and everyone had a great time. Before I knew it, multiple teams throughout the company were reaching out to me to run a session!

After thinking about this experience and talking with numerous managers, I found it was getting harder to keep things fresh as many teams continue to work remotely and thought there was an opportunity to do something more scalable and high quality. Hence, Gamejoy was born!

Right now, we're focusing on games that combine fun + universal appeal/ease + the opportunity to get to know your teammates better (i.e. games with built-in icebreakers). We're starting with a few games and hoping to launch more (i.e. Poker is a common request) shortly.

Would love any thoughts or feedback. Thanks!