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Ankith Harathi

Macro Beta - A customizable meeting interface, built on top of Zoom

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Macro is a customizable meeting interface built on top of Zoom, reimagined for collaboration and inclusive conversations. Same Zoom links, same people, same meetings - but now so much better.

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Rudy Arconte
Great app, great vision! Is that possible to integrate Whereby instead of Zoom? I know Zoom is very popular but there are great alternatives out there. Kudos for your good work and stay safe!
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@westkast Rudy, thanks for the feedback. Right now we're fully integrated with Zoom, but more integrations are coming soon!
Rudy Arconte
@aharathi Thanks Ankith, hope you will take in consideration Whereby in your future integrations. This visioconferencing solution is so great, I use it with my partners and clients. It will be a level up and game changing.
Jake Kayser
Hey @aharathi, congratulations on your seed round! I'm an EdTech founder here in Boston (youragora.com) and Macro seems like a helpful, dynamic Zoom upgrade. Our clients are universities and language schools; many of them have strict privacy standards they must adhere to (pertaining to vendors and software). A few questions: 1. Does Macro track user activity (such as applications used) during calls? 2. Are videos/images taken during calls of user activity at any time? 3. Is Google Calendar information collected? 4. In section 1>Contact Information, what is "and other relevant information necessary for us to offer the Service."? We'd love to give Macro a try and want to ensure our clients conform to their privacy/data security standards. Thank you, Jake
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@jake_kayser Great questions! 1. Macro tracks *no* user activity or applications used during calls outside of the Macro app 2. No videos or images are taken of user activity during any time. If you're screen sharing with Macro, your screen is shown to other attendees, but that information isn't stored anywhere (unless you have Zoom recordings turned on - in which case its stored on Zoom!) 3. Nope! We only query calendars in real time, never stored on our servers, to display your upcoming calendar events in our home screen with quick 'Launch' links to take you right into your meetings! 4. Aside from your Zoom information, we collect the macOS version number What's awesome about the Zoom SDK is that we don't touch any of the raw data feeds (audio/video/screenshare/etc) that passes right from Zoom to you, we just get to put a pretty interface around it 🎨 Hope that answers your questions!
Jake Kayser
@aharathi Thanks for the detailed answers, excited to try Macro!
Ash Barot
DO NOT TRY THIS. I am on MacOS and here is my feedback. 1. My fan started blowing as soon as I started zoom call. I have an extremely powerful mac. 2. During the call, I just could not share my screen. I had given all permissions to the app. But it hijacked my zoom and I had to uninstall Macro in middle of the call to make this happen. Not cool.
Ankith Harathi
Maker
hey @aakash_barot, sorry to hear about that! Our app uses a wrapper on Zoom's native SDK and in our testing we show statistically similar CPU / memory utilization to the native Zoom client. For the screen share portion - did the host in the meeting have 'allow attendees to screen share' enabled?
Ash Barot
@aharathi Yes it was enabled for the attendees. But I was the host of the meting.
Ash Barot
@aharathi It looks like a good product. Just that it was an embarrassing experience with the client and hence I ranted. I will download and try it again on weekend to ensure everything works as expected.
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@aakash_barot No worries at all, I completely understand. Meetings are important - especially with external clients. I'll check through the logs to make sure nothing out the ordinary happened and get to the bottom of this!
Ashley Whitlatch
Definitely looking forward to trying this as soon as a Windows version is available! :)
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@ashley_mw one of our top priorities! Excited to get you onboard soon.
Monisha Rajinikanth
👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Jose Paul Martin
Haven't got around to testing this out. But just by the video & description two things stand out... 1) Airtime Map! I'll probably be the one talking the most on a call, so this keeps me in check! and 2) Outcome Automation with Google Doc. Wishing you guys all the best!
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@jpmartin Thanks Jose! Give a shout after you get to try it and let us know what you think
Fernando Lopez
Congrats on the launch! As an executive coach for leadership teams, I am super excited for this product, especially the airtime indicator feature. This will make life easier! I have lots of ideas for how to further improve online teamwork through a better UI. Feel free to reach out
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@fernando_lopez6 That's amazing, will reach out!
Keith Corso
Keep up the great work!
Ankith Harathi
Maker
Sebastian Valencia
Can't wait to try it. Can I customize views foe attendees as well? Has someone used it for webinars?
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@sebastian_valencia the simplicity of Macro is that you can use it without any affect on your attendees. What that also means is that unless your attendees also have Macro you can't control their view (it'll just be normal Zoom). Once you start using it we're confident your team will want to get on too 😄
Laurent Thevenet
?makers Great product! Any plan on supporting virtual backgrounds? It doesn't seem to work despite setting one up in the settings.
Ankith Harathi
Maker
@thelau this should be working! We're looking into it :)
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