@rrhoover Hey Ryan! They took it down last year so we're adopting 'Roger' for this new setup :). If you're on a Mac I think you'd have a blast with it!
Another Roger walkie-talkie?
What is the difference between this and the recently deceased one please?
Any plans of jumping in the mobile pool and fighting with the dozen-fold options in it?
Cheers @scottliang.
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hey @lyondhur! This one's completely different from the one you linked to. We've built a desktop button that instantly projects live video onto your contact's screen, whereas the other is a mobile app that sends voice messages.
Check it out—as a fellow UX guy, I'd love to hear what you think :)
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@scottliang Cool mate. Cheers for the response.
As far as the UX goes, I myself think that the click-and-hold is a mobile rationale that sort of adds an unnecesary layer of complexity in desktop video-conferencing.
Like I said, there are so many options out there (rooms.co, appear.in + a load of others, mostly with screen sharing, file sharing and side-chatting) that the only real UX differentiator I can think of is "onboarding". The simplest: the better.
That being said, Roger is stable enough (perhaps because the bandwith is better managed when scaled-down by the message-to-message approach?) and quite a praisable work on your end mate.
Once again, I'd replay another UX research round and revisit data focusing more specifically on a desktop-only experience.
All the best luck with the project Scott.
Warm greetings from New Zealand.
Hey everyone, Scott from Roger here...huge thanks to @erictwillis for hunting us :)
My teammates and I made Roger because we found communicating w/ Slack and Skype to be a pain in the butt.
Either we had to type out what we wanted to say, or we had to go through the tedium of scheduling a call, ringing, waiting for an answer, hanging up, and so on. It was just too much friction.
Roger cuts out all the cruft of Slack/Skype and lets you communicate as quickly and freely as possible. You just hold down on your contact’s bubble and start talking, right away. If they want to respond, they hold down, too. That’s it!
It’s as close to sitting next to someone as you can get, without sitting next to them!
Roger’s been a huge breath of fresh air for us, and we think it will be for you, too. Of course, if you have any questions or feedback, I'd love to connect below :)
Cheers,
-Scott
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Pro tip: If you call the ‘Roger’ user (hold down or use the hotkey), you’ll get a random puppy gif. A hotkey for puppies!!
Really love this product, my team is using it religiously. This a is a lean and very light application. I've been using it since their public beta, I have remote teams and it works perfectly. Specially when I need a quick chat to explain features, bugs, design and implementation to my team. Looking forward to see this product evolving, I'd totally pay for it. Great job @scottliang!
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Just tried it out, very seamless experience on Mac. I can definitely see this being useful. Plus very smooth onboarding as well. Great work @scottliang and @alex_padalko
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Nice, I can see this being pretty useful for working with our remote co-workers
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This is cool! I just tried workparty and thought "man it would be cool if this did video!" Bam!
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