A few months ago we launched Product Hunt LIVE, hosting text-based Q&A’s with some of the world’s most interesting founders, investors, artists, authors, game creators, and makers. Today, we’re hosting our first LIVE VIDEO Chat powered by our friends at Blab. Now you can see your favorite makers answer your questions on video and if you’re brave enough, join them on camera to answer your question live.
The animated and insightful @mazzeo will be our first PH LIVE VIDEO guest. Grab a seat here. This is going to be fun. :)
P.S. I wrote a bit about how @ShaanVP, CEO of Blab, and I met a few years ago. I applied for a job there and got rejected. Full story here. 😊
WOW! I sort of figured this was going to happen when I heard @ShaanVP and @rrhoover talking on a Blab about email exchanges. This is a fantastic partnership and definitely going to bring AMA's to a whole new level.
@rrhoover I took a screenshot of the brief moment we were ranking above you - something to show the grandkids one day...anyway I caved in and finally gave it the upvote it deserved.
Is this all part of the new (super secret) PH?
I joined the Slack group yesterday to try and glean some information but I couldn't read anything it was moving so fast (my computer nearly caught fire).
@rrhoover Keeping up with the questions, typing and talking at the same time was tough! As least the folks coming on will have an easier time of it.
This is awesome though, it will make it easier to be part of even more of these events now.
@shaanvp I was immediately excited (although I apologize for the super delayed response... the few weeks after our launch were hectic) and Blab seemed like a great fit. We all wanted to support video from the beginning but of course we can't build everything. 😄
Congrats.... Video streaming and collaboration is nothing new but embracing new tech and integrating it into a plan to provide more value to your community is a ton of work and scares off most brands. Congrats and kudos as I'm a huge fan of the Blab team and this collaboration is great for the tech & live streaming space!
@rrhoover very excited for this -- will you be recording the videos and saving for later if we can't watch live?
Also @shaanvp, it looks like the UI is customized a bit, is this a standard widget blab offers or is it custom for PH?
@matthartman YES! You'll be able to watch replays of the video on PH and on Blab. The embed is customized to include the question asked on PH beside the guest.
@matthartman What's up Matt!
1. Yes you can watch the replay (it lasts forever) if you miss the live chat
2. For now, the Q&A UI is custom to Product Hunt, but we built it to work for all other use cases on Blab.
Like Slack, our left side bar is home to integrations. We already had 'twitter' integration (it pulls tweets about this blab), and now we've added a 'product hunt' integration (pulls questions live from product hunt).
For today, these are the only two integrations, but soon we'll open it up so that they can be anything (eg. News headlines from CNN., NFL scores pulled from ESPN etc..)
Similarly, this is the first time that you can put questions 'in the box' on screen. That helps everyone watching know what the host is talking about. This functionality will soon be available for all Blab users, not just the Product Hunt ones :)
@shaanvp woah I didn't realize you had integrations in the conversation, that's great. could be cool to have a bot that pulls all the app links talked about in PH live and creates automatic show notes after the broadcast is over. I'd use that for my weekly product roundup live as well.
Now I know when Ryan and Shaan got so antsy when I went on camera a while back and was like " Why aren't ama's on blab?" Totally called it! Boom! So stoked!
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