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Daily — A personal URL for all your video calls
Daily is your own URL for video calls, free. No downloads! Teams, 50 person calls, international dial-in, screen shares, lock rooms on your domain. Get a URL you like!
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Hey @rrhoover. Great question! In building Daily we placed a focus on removing as many barriers to getting into your meeting as possible. Meaning that we do not require any downloads; Daily meetings simply work in Chrome (with Safari and Edge support coming soon).
We also offer free 50 person calls, dual screen sharing, no meeting time limits, international dial-in to 20+ countries (currently) and team/meeting room management.
Regarding team/meeting room management. With Daily you’re able to manage your meeting type by: locking it so that only your team members can join, locking it so that anyone with the link must knock, or making it public (anyone can join without an account).
I hope that answers your question, happy to elaborate where we can 👍
My team is distributed across multiple time zones which has made video calls & screensharing very important. Obviously, not every conversation needs to involve everyone so I’m curious if you offer additional teams support. Also, as our team grows and we need more seats what kind of per seat costs should I expect to pay?
Impressed so far!
@joshuaemert Thanks! Yes - teams is something we were excited to tackle, since we're distributed. No seat fees, to knock that off the list. Daily for Teams is free – no host fees, no seat fees, no meeting time limits. (We have a separate, paying conference room hardware product, which we launched on Product Hunt last year.) Seat licenses are a pain for video calling. They're a headache for admin. They're a headache for users - some of us have been at orgs where there was a limited number of seat licenses, so only a certain number of people could be using the software at a time. Not great if you can't do a demo or support call cause someone else is using the license. Daily frees you up from that. No scaling headache.
In your Daily teams dashboard, any invited teammate can create rooms on the URL. (No admin involved.) That branded, shared URL is key. Team Gringotts might have gringotts-hq.daily.co/ops, gringotts-hq.daily.co/accounting, gringotts-hq.daily.co/dev. All these meeting rooms have our features - 50 person calls, international dial-in, dual screen sharing.
The goal was to have simple, powerful meetings, that your entire team can customize, in seconds. Hope that helps - ping us if you have any feature requests for your team!
@kkdub If you're nervous, you can always pay for our Pluot TV hardware, which is an inexpensive, zero administration, appliance for your conference rooms. $50/month for screen sharing and Daily meetings on your TV! :-) Seriously, though, charging for the hardware is what makes it possible for us to have the software be free.
Writing this just before I jump into our team standup where we use Daily with the Pluot hardware. Super simple, great call and video clarity...overall a big step forward in the world of video-based collaboration.
Can't recommend Daily (or the people behind it!) enough.
Have been using this for the past few weeks and have loved how easy it is to setup different rooms. Has fully replaced hangouts + skype for me. Keep up the good work!
We've been using this product since it's inception. I've used all of the other platforms and this is by far the easiest. Quality is great. No software, just click on a link and it works. (Disclosure: i've had access to the product since inception because we are also investors.)
Pros:Easy and works every time!
Cons:Meeting recording would be great
Long time Pluot user, and now Daily. This team knows how to deliver a great product!
Great product, easy to implement. Few feature requests : Can you add a logo/avatar to the meeting room settings + also a description of a room, so that we can fetch this via the API. Also, the name of the room doesn't accept spaces, special chars... maybe via an extra field ?
If this can solve the curse of video calls, and general mass-sync-real-time-comms (MSRTC?) then this will be my most favourite thing, ever. Looking forward to giving it a test.
@inthecompanyof Have you had a chance to try Daily? What do you think? What can we improve?
I’m really excited to have been a part of this release, and this great team! It’s truly been a huge team effort, and one in which we’ve designed and built as a distributed team ourselves.
As the sole designer I’m also very glad to have a detail-oriented and focused team to work with me; and many, many times, keep our design principles in check too 😅
That said we all appreciate any feedback, comments and the like. Feel free to reply to me here with any design related questions—UI, UX, you name it. There’s much to do and we are eager to improve our pixels and user experience for the Product Hunt community and beyond.
Cheers!
Steve
By far the best videoconferencing system I've ever used in terms of UX, reliability and video and audio quality.
Only 2 downsides: the lack of mobile support, which should be cured soon, from what I understand, and the chrome microphone bug. Yes, there's a long-standing fatal bug in Chrome's ability to access the microphone, which means you need to restart the browser. But typical of Daily is that it detects the bug and tells you what's going on and what steps to take, whereas Hangouts just leaves you on the line saying "hello? hello?" Similarly, another thing I like about Daily is that it is quite good at detecting bad connectivity, freezing video for you, and resuming video when bandwidth improves.
But just a super smooth experience overall.
@jim_reich Thank you! Mobile app def on the roadmap. (Dial-in for now.) Yes, the Chrome audio bug is frustrating - we apologize, and work hard to detect it and messages users, so they know their Chrome needs to be reopened. That's great to hear about the bandwidth shaping, thank you!
@jim_reich I am adding another vote for mobile support. I am hesitant to invite new contacts to Daily video calls since I don't know whether they'll be on the phone or web. Lack of mobile support forces me back to Hangouts.
@jim_reich @yurylifshits Good to know! It's on the roadmap. Dial-in maybe a backup for now? We prioritized dial-in since many people on mobile are on the go. Cheers!
Daily has been a game changer for me. Not having to coordinate which software the person I'm scheduled to speak with has already downloaded, easy access to a dial in number, and reusing the same URL over and over again has made video calling totally seamless.
Nice work guys. The teams dashboard to put your teammates on the same URL is dope!
I've been using this to host chats with my members and it's clear, easy to hop on and...well, that's it. So easy. I'm just waiting for the possibility to chat or send files while talking but it's so simple right now that I love it. LOVE.
Pros:SO RIDICULOUSLY EASY TO USE
Cons:Can't chat while talking
Hi Product Hunt, and thanks to @justinkan for hunting us!
Last year, our team launched inexpensive hardware for video conferencing here on Product Hunt, and now we're back with a pure software release.
We think video calling is super interesting. More and more people depend on video calls to get their work done every day. And using video regularly completely changes how remote teams work together.
Our goal all the way along has been to build the communications tools that *we* want to use. We think video calls should feel like a natural part of your life and your workflows. Daily lets you set up a URL that's all yours, manage teams and rooms in a simple dashboard interface, and join calls without downloading any softaware.
Features we're most proud of so far:
- Personalized and human-readable call URLs, like kwindla.daily.co/hello, and acme-hq.pluot.co/eng-standup
- No software download needed
- Dial-in numbers for every call
- Two people can screen share at the same time
- 50-people can be in a call at the same time
- Super-simple team management and meetings privacy/permissions
- All of ^^^ is free!
- Everything works on our Pluot hardware, too, if you want an affordable, zero-admin video calling appliance for your conference rooms.
What we're working hardest on right now:
- Safari and Edge support. (Right now we're Chrome-only.)
- Meeting recording
We'd love to hear what you think of Daily, what we can do better, and what features you'd like to see us add.
Now go get the custom URL you want, before somebody else does! :-)
@justinkan @adithya Thanks!!!
You're right - up to 50 people in a meeting. Also, dial-in telephone numbers for 20+ countries, so people can join by phone, too, if that's more convenient.
We're testing/tweaking for Chrome on Android, and working on iOS as well. We should be able to launch full mobile device support soon,
At the moment, we're not planning any premium software features. We are going to keep launching new features -- meeting recording, an API -- but we're trying to offer as much as we can for free. (We can do this because we *do* offer our hardware appliance as a premium service. The hardware is how we make money.)
We'd love to hear what you'd like us to add/improve/change!
@nur_myrza A couple of people have asked us about that. You're thinking of being able to use any domain, not just xyz.daily.co?
If so, it's something that's on our todo list, but will require some more backend code on our part, and will only work for people who have control over their own DNS.
In the meantime, here's something that will work ...
There's a really neat service -- http://redirect.name/ -- that lets you set up an HTTP redirect using only DNS records. Using redirect.name, you can set up http://something.domain.xyz to redirect to https://your-domain.daily.co/a-room
You can set up as many of those redirects as you want to (you just need to be able to add CNAME and TXT records to your DNS. The only slightly less than optimal thing is that the redirecting URL can only be http, not https.
@justinkan @kwindla This looks amazing! I will try it for sure. :)
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We love Pluot at Koan and are excited about the new Daily launch! One of our favorite features is auto-connected rooms — this makes our daily stand ups super efficient for remote folks.
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