Flat.social
Productivity
video meetings
SHOW HN2022
166points
64comments
#364of 2,570 in 2022
Top 15%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
17 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score +0.41.
Idea: 5 for, 2 againstDesign: 6 for, 0 againstExecution: 3 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and intuitive movement and interaction
From 3 comments
This is absolutely awesome. As someone who has used Gather a bit, this blows it out of the water. Incredibly intuitive and fun way to move around and talk to your friends and…
aklarfeld on HNHey there, Great work! I loved how responsive it's. There is fun to play with animations. The flying emojis, and animations!!! Love the backgrounds but needs some improvements as…
firatcan on HNLove the way that you interact with the space. Feels very intuitive. Nice job!
mcelearr on HN
Polished and responsive UI
From 3 comments
This really surprised me! It's super polished already and works great! Gonna try to do our company's virtual happy hour here. Great job!
brumm on HNThat seems to be more corporate / educational focused. There's a few of these types of solutions around though. I've used Gather (https://www.gather.town/) before because I quite…
hnlmorg on HNHey there, Great work! I loved how responsive it's. There is fun to play with animations. The flying emojis, and animations!!! Love the backgrounds but needs some improvements as…
firatcan on HN
Better than Gather.town
From 2 comments
This is absolutely awesome. As someone who has used Gather a bit, this blows it out of the water. Incredibly intuitive and fun way to move around and talk to your friends and…
aklarfeld on HNThis seems to be a take on Gather.town with more realistic graphics. My team has been using Gather for almost a year now, so I'll give it a shot.
CodeBeater on HN
Objections
Privacy and harassment risks from proximity, pushing and magnetising
From 2 comments
One thing these types of tools also need to consider is online safety. I've seen others implement things like personal boundaries, hiding from others, and avoiding being boxed in…
midenginedcoupe on HNOr, presumably, people could box you in by anchoring themselves around you? Similarly, I give it 5 mins before magnetising to others makes people uncomfortable, or is used for…
midenginedcoupe on HN
Hard to find other users
From 1 comment
Love your UI - nice work. Edit - no way for me to delete my account though Just as a note - the reason I decided to stop using it was it was too hard for me to find anyone else…
failTide on HN
Teleport home button did not work for one user
From 1 comment
I tried that, but the button didn't do anything. Maybe I should have just waited a few secs more.
sgt on HN
Requests
Optional camera use
From 1 comment
Wonder if you could make using a camera optional?
apineda on HN
Slack integration
From 2 comments
Hey amazing work. I attempted a 3D version of this in 2020 using playcanvas and Agora.io but ran into the realization that navigating a 3D world is not intuitive for non-gamers.…
mentos on HNAwesome thank you for sharing sounds great! I think you have enough features so to me the challenge is finding how to make it feel like it already lives inside the applications…
mentos on HN
Ability to delete account
From 1 comment
Love your UI - nice work. Edit - no way for me to delete my account though Just as a note - the reason I decided to stop using it was it was too hard for me to find anyone else…
failTide on HN
Questions
Revenue model and server costs
From 1 comment
How is it different from InSpace? https://inspace.chat/ What’s the future revenue model? How expensive are the servers?
WoodenChair on HN
Why audio and video run on backend instead of SFU
From 1 comment
Any reason for doing audio and video work on the backend rather than adopting the (much easier to scale) SFU model and just forwarding packets? Similarly for the physics, seems…
jhugo on HN
Whether audio uses HRTF spatial audio
From 1 comment
Very creative. Is this HRTF-like spatial audio or are you just modulating volume based on proximity/walls?
korm on HN
Alternatives named
Gather.town
From 2 comments
This seems to be a take on Gather.town with more realistic graphics. My team has been using Gather for almost a year now, so I'll give it a shot.
CodeBeater on HNThat seems to be more corporate / educational focused. There's a few of these types of solutions around though. I've used Gather (https://www.gather.town/) before because I quite…
hnlmorg on HN
InSpace
From 1 comment
How is it different from InSpace? https://inspace.chat/ What’s the future revenue model? How expensive are the servers?
WoodenChair on HN
WorkAdventure
From 1 comment
Also see https://workadventu.re/ . Already seen it working well for 1000+ visitors congress meeting hub. Plus it has some well matured Web 1.0 capabilities: Everyone can host…
herschel113 on HN
Around
From 1 comment
Reminded me of https://www.around.co/ , but they’ve clearly grown beyond the simple “fun video calls” value prop since I last saw them and raised venture. Fun idea!
sophrocyne on HN
Wonder.me
From 1 comment
Looks like a wonder.me copycat
l7l on HN
dotdot.social
From 1 comment
looks eerily similar to https://dotdot.social/
mattanimation on HN