Heyo Product Hunt! 😀
First of all, thank you @hnshah for not only hunting Openvid 2.0, but also being super generous with your time & feedback over the last few months that is now being shipped as the 2.0 product! 👏🏻
@joethomas_x, @vhmth, and I launched Openvid a little over three months ago (100 days to be exact 🎈) and witnessed resoundingly positive feedback from all of you!
Fast forward to today, we have over 12,800+ employees from leading companies such as: Uber, Dropbox, Zendesk, Salesforce, Intercom, and others using Openvid to communicate more effectively in the workplace.
Openvid is the fastest way for you to share knowledge and collaborate more easily––through video. The seamless experience makes it perfect for:
- Walking a co-worker through a project
- Bug tracking/QA (both web & mobile)
- Personalized sales demos
- Customer support
- + many other use cases!
Openvid let’s you do all that (+ more) for free without having to worry about video storage, upload time, or recording time limits.
With this new update, you can now:
- Record your entire desktop (not just limited to the tab anymore!)
- Front facing camera recordings
- Record with a single-click and your videos immediately get uploaded and you are given a shareable URL that you can send out in an email, Slack, Hipchat, etc.
Ask us anything! 💬
@poolnoodle93@_shahedk hey there Saarim! We don't currently do live streaming from our tool, but you can certainly use it to record live streams! I do it all the time for Skype meetings. :-)
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@_shahedk Thanks for the help, mindshare and great sushi lunches. Congrats!
It's been fun to watch Shahed and the team release and iterate this product. They've got a friction-less experience that makes many different common tasks much more seamless to do right from your Chrome browser. Pretty slick, a must try for any one wanting to learn how they do it. And as a bonus, I'm sure you'll find the product quite useful too!
a 2.0 after 100 days, very good pace guys! When can we expect mobile support? We've been using Instabug this past year but Openvid seems like a more suitable fit for Product people. Also a tiny something: https://www.opentest.co/share/43...
@kachchani My man! Thank you very much for catching that bug in the video! Instead of just fixing the bug we decided to deploy an entirely new homepage ;) Thanks @_shahedk for whipping that up so quickly.
Mobile we're looking at the 9-12 month range to hyper focus on desktop video communication for internal teams and external communication. Until the marginal rate of return that we're getting from desktop platform development seems to reach a point of near saturation, we'll quickly hop over to mobile.
Here is a video version of that: https://www.opentest.co/share/8e...
@kachchani@joethomas_x haha we always personally give @_shahedk trouble about his designs (all out of jest), but I must admit he has an eye for it. :-)
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Awesome to see you guys back on Product Hunt!
Openvid has saved us tons of time with our clients over the past couple months. We started using it as a personalized way to welcome them to the company, walk them through their social metrics, and visually explain their options for advertising.
Great to see it progress to 2.0!
The team behind Openvid is something else. Truly awesome guys. I've been playing with their product as they iterate and slam this thing out of the park.
You guys *need* to try this product.
@davidbyttow Hey man, sorry for the issue you're running into. I looked into our logs and it seems like you were successful at creating your first recording. Did the log in end up working or are you still running into issues?
@_shahedk The oauth redirect kept timing out, but the login did in fact complete. When I refreshed, it reflected that. Then I made a recording. Pretty cool. :)
@_shahedk@vhmth Really really happy to see this product evolve over time and excited about the new release.
I've really loved using OpenTest for Commaful for a few things:
- customer service (when people ask how to do certain things)
- demos sharing what Commaful is
- asking users for feedback on new features
I've tried a bunch of recording services. This is by far the easiest and most powerful. I love being able to send the link immediately without having to upload to YouTube or anything. BOOM! Congrats guys. Awesome product
@sydney_liu_sl@_shahedk thank you Sydney! I've really appreciated having you as a very early adopter (from when we did "Expert Tests" :-) ). You're the best!
@varunkhona We've been seeing a lot of back and forth communication amongst remote/local employees at work. What used to be a ton of back and forth emails and skype/hangouts sessions has now boiled down to a single asynchronous video detailing everything you need to send over (project materials, time-sensitive info, etc) to another employee half way across the world.
That employee can then respond with a few sentences when it's most convenient for them. Given you're headquartered in India, you should give it a spin and let me know what you think. Keep me in the loop if you have any questions/comments. You have my direct line ;)
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I've been looking for a tool like this for a while now (others exist, but none quite as seamless and user friendly as this is), and I'm already planning on pushing out a series of onboarding videos for my new users using this platform. Fantastic work here, and @vhmth does great user support :)
@khorstmannshoff@_shahedk
Hey Kai! Really cool to see you weigh in here because we were just sent Ryan Holmes Fast Company article this past week. Not sure if you had a chance to read it: https://www.fastcompany.com/3062...
Would love to hear your thoughts here if you have any!
TL;DR for those that are curious: Ryan talks about how video updates to the HootSuite team has really helped them be transparent, up-to-date, and collaborative because as an organization grows it becomes increasingly difficult to transfer knowledge to everyone in a real-time fashion. And this is exactly the direction we're trying to go with our platform.
As for the others that play in our space there are two major differences from those you pointed out:
- Screencastify: Videos are stored locally or in Google Drive. This makes video more cumbersome file to deal with which we're trying to alleviate people of by making videos instantly shareable
- Record.it: Similar with the instantly shareable but their GIFs only. With mic and cam recording thrown it is makes Opentest videos significantly more "human and personal".
For those who'd rather watch than read: https://www.opentest.co/share/ef...
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@joethomas_x@_shahedk Hey Joe, great to hear you liked Ryan's article. His updates are a real treat and help employees stay connected and engaged, even when working across many country lines and time zones. Video is definitely a great way to connect with both employees and customers. I'll give Openvid a spin. Also, check out Hootsuite's many video integrations here: https://hootsuite.com/integratio... 😉
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