Sleepy Time Conference
Consumer and social
virtual conferences
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Sleepy Time Conference
Sleepy Time Conference—conferences that comes together while you sleep
github.com#asynchronous conference#virtual conference#pre-recorded talks#online events
How HN took it
0 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score -0.49.
Idea: 0 for, 9 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Prerecorded talks plus live Q&A rooms worked well at FOSDEM
From 1 comment
Experience from FOSDEM that happened last weekend: all talks had been pre-recorded and started exactly on time. During the talk, an active room of chat discussion. At the the end…
zvr on HN
Deferred Q&A after a talk allows useful follow-up discussion
From 1 comment
Actually, having QnA sessions not immediately after the talk sounds kind of useful. It allows gathering of ideas, and an actual discussion after consulting external facts.…
freeone3000 on HN
Objections
Asynchronous format loses the interaction that makes conferences valuable
From 2 comments
The problem is real, but I don't think this is the solution. The point of conferences is discussing ideas, which asynchronously is hard to say the least. Remote conferencing is…
ghego1 on HNTo author, idea is cool. Any asynchronous communication helps to manage time and resources. But I believe there are some things that cannot be asynchronous. Conferences are meant…
sanmak on HN
Hard to replace in-person conversation
From 1 comment
No matter what you build it is so completely different than being able to walk around a room and strike up a conversation. There just isn't a comparison to real human…
asdff on HN
Recording and sending talks yourself is simpler than a new app
From 2 comments
Why is this better than everybody just recording their stuff and sending it?
robbmue on HNSo instead of having to learn how to use recording software of some kind, they have to learn how to use this application, just for this one specific reason. I get the Idea, but i…
robbmue on HN
Virtual conferences feel like a distraction
From 1 comment
One challenge that I feel like virtual conferences have to overcome is that they currently feel like far more of a distraction than their in-person equivalent. There was at least…
teeray on HN
Requests
Add threaded discussion section
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What if there were a slack/like discussions section with threaded conversations? It wouldn't be exactly like an old-school conference, but I feel like it would have it's place as…
omginternets on HN
Use an AMA-style question queue with top questions answered on video
From 1 comment
The ad-hoc live Q&A is always kind of a disaster. I think it’s more useful to the audience and the speaker to do an AMA kind of thing. Questions are open for a couple hours, and…
teeray on HN
Questions
How can questions be recorded before the talk exists?
From 1 comment
The description mentions that questioners can also record questions... But how can you record questions for a talk that has not happened yet? And if you hypothetically did…
cafxx on HN
How are follow-up answers handled when a later message changes earlier points?
From 1 comment
What if the last person needs to respond to what the first person said in a way it'd change what other people said? I mean, I'm not sure if this is a serious idea or…
gnulinux on HN
Alternatives named
Forums like Reddit or Hacker News
From 1 comment
How does this idea differ from "a web forum" (or like, reddit/HN ;P)?
saurik on HN
heysync, an async audio and text chat
From 1 comment
I've actually been working on something like that, with elements similar to the submission idea. My thing is an irc/slack-like chat system, that allows you to leave both text and…
wcarss on HN
Slack and Loom for async team communication
From 1 comment
To author, idea is cool. Any asynchronous communication helps to manage time and resources. But I believe there are some things that cannot be asynchronous. Conferences are meant…
sanmak on HN
Scrum updates or Slack update channels
From 1 comment
Why not just post a Scrum update or a video to or message to a slack update channel. This is silly
blondie9x on HN
Streamyard for recorded videos in live events
From 1 comment
Because 1.- speakers do not need to know how to record their stuff and send it by some means. 2.- There is no need of somebody putting them all together before broadcasting. As…
snadal on HN