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Chris Messina

Zipcan beta - Add video chat inside your website or application in seconds

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Embed a code snippet into your app or website to unlock a 2-way video experience within your platform. Using Zipcan, you can create new products, engage customers and connect your community. We offer button, iframe or NPM module connections to common tools.

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Harrison from VC Guide
Wait I feel like this is a bit game-changing to like inbound online chat sales (similar to how big of businesses Intercom or LiverPerson are) but also lightweight*. This is awesome, I'm excited for this!
Spenser Lea
Maker
@vcguidehq Thanks for the comment! We feel the same way. Customer engagement and sales enablement are excellent use cases for Zipcan!
Jack Phan
Congrats on the launch, @fritzly! Impressed with this product so far. A great improvement on being able to simply integrate video calls into website and apps. Pretty seamless. Interested to see how people plan on using this within their product stack.
Fritz Brumder
Maker
@fritzly @jackphan Thanks Jack! Your startup and media experience is inspirational in PDX! We had 2 goals in our product build. Make video chat work in any website or SaaS app. Then make it fast and simple to get into a call. How close did we get to our 2 goals?
Jack Phan
@fritzly @jackphan I think you nailed it. Both goals were achieved.
Chris Messina
Raycast
Hunter
Think about it — at one point, generic email was what everyone had (@aol.com, @prodigy.com, @gmail.com)... but gradually we moved to branded/company/personal domains that we owned. We're in the same era when it comes to video calls — relying on third parties like Zoom or Google Meet and others to provide what is becoming the de facto way for people to communicate. Zipcan makes it possible to use your own URL/domain for video calls. Indeed, here's mine! https://chrismessina.me/call-me
Spenser Lea
Maker
@chrismessina Thanks for hunting us! Great assessment. It's true, anyone with their own site can enable it with video calling. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Zipcan be used to facilitate all kinds of conversations across the web! We're excited to see the ways people put this to use.
Ron Sparks
This looks like a great way to spin up video! I've signed up did a quick test. Next step is to test out embedding for client communication in workshop space. Honestly this just opens the door to more possibilities and lower the barrier to entry for video. Excited about this product! Nice work to the team!
Spenser Lea
Maker
@ron_sparks Thanks for signing up Ron! Let us know how the embed goes!
Taylor Wakefield
Teleport Assist
Looks like a useful sales tool, like drift, but for higher touch sales process. I get the sense people are tired of the chat bots and this would make sense for higher priced sales.
Fritz Brumder
Maker
@ktwakefield You got it Taylor. My favorite alpha sign up? Porsche USA!
Tyler Phillipi
Really cool stuff Fritz! I have a use case that would be great but I need more time to develop. I can't wait to get started!
Spenser Lea
Maker
@phillipi Excellent to hear Tyler! We tried to make it as easy as possible to get video calling integration in your site with little friction. Let us know if you have any questions getting set up!
Damion Parsons
Thanks for connecting today @fritzly! I'm excited try Zipcan. Enabling our shoppers to connect with a stylists will definitely be a value add.
Fritz Brumder
Maker
@fritzly @damionp We love your use case so keep us up to date on how it is coming.
Bikash Makaju
Awesome product and it was really exciting in getting an early look and working on bringing Zipcan's vision to life with animation. Fritz and Spenser were really cool to work with and I really think the product has a lot of applications and is going to be very useful and interesting to communicate with customers.
Hey @fritzly I'm super impressed by your work, totally love it. Clear idea and looks already well designed and working
Fritz Brumder
Maker
@fritzly @timz_flowers 🙏 Appreciate you taking an early look. As a fellow maker, we are cheering you on to your launch! 🚀
Spenser Lea
Maker
Hey everyone! CPO of Zipcan here. There's always the question of "how is this better / different than _blank_?" Well, we think that conversations on the web are more meaningful in context of your content, and owning / powering that conversation in your web experiences is where Zipcan comes in. Think of what you can do by enabling direct chat in your ecosystem to connect with your customers, community, employees, students, and collaborators. So here’s a little poll for you. Would you rather host your video calls on your own site, or send your users elsewhere to connect? To us, the answer is simple. But we would love to hear your preference!
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