Dashbrain: Smarter chat for any video call, in just two clicks.

👋 Hey Product Hunt! I'm Marco, a 17-year-old high school student and web developer from Southern California. I'm super excited to launch my first-ever product on PH: Dashbrain. ⏳ Backstory Dashbrain started with a simple problem: in my classes' Zoom rooms, teachers would never notice that students were raising their hands. Zoom has a built-in "raise hand" button, but teachers would frequently miss the small raising-hand indicator on students' profiles. I built Dashbrain to solve this problem and ensure that everyone in a video call, no matter the scale, would remain in-sync, while also being easy to use in a couple of clicks. As I developed the project, I added new features to solve additional pain-points common with large video calls. 🧠 Enter Dashbrain Dashbrain makes your video meetings smarter — Zoom, Google Meets, Teams, FaceTime, custom WebRTC, you name it. 1. You open dashbrain.us next to your video call and click the "New Dashbrain" button. 2. You tell your participants 5-digit code. 3. They go to dashbrain.us next to their video calls and enter the code. And now, you chat inside Dashbrain, where you can... ✋ Get clear, obvious notifications when someone raises their hand When a participant clicks the Raise Hand button in Dashbrain, the host will immediately notice the notification at the top of their screen. No more scanning lists of participants' names to find one tiny icon. 💯 Send polls in two clicks Send polls and instantly receive feedback from participants. Hosts can choose whether participants see results immediately (like Twitter) or only after they choose to release the results. ❓ Asking questions just became fun Participants can ask public questions and receive "likes" from other participants. As with raised hands, hosts will notice right away when they get a question. No more awkwardly asking "any questions?" the end of your meeting. 💬 Custom group chats In most video call software, you get a choice: message one person, or message "everyone." With Dashbrain, you can message any custom group of people — one, two, three, four, whatever you want. (Of course, you can also choose to message "everyone" as well.) ✍️ Formatting: bold, italics, code, and URLs Dashbrain supports Markdown syntax for making text bold (like this: **bold**), italic (like this: *italics*), and monospace (like this: `code`), as well as automatically making URLs become clickable links. 🖨 Export to PDF With everyone's great ideas flowing in Dashbrain, you might want to save the contents of your chat after the meeting ends. In one click, you can export to a PDF. And don't worry, we filter out your private messages ;) . 😸 I hope you give Dashbrain a try. It's free forever at https://dashbrain.us. Let me know what you think!

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5yr ago

@mbthinks I've been looking for something like this for my Zoom calls!

I really love it! Can I ask what the difference is in the schools version

Thanks so much! That’s a great question. The only difference is the vocabulary used on the site. It changes “host” to “teacher,” “participant” to “student,” etc. The functionality is exactly the same on both versions.

Congrats on the launch!

Thanks so much!