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Openvid 2.0 — One-click desktop, cam, & mic recording tool for Chrome 🎥
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@ompemi Too kind Omar! Really appreciate you and the Reply.ai team putting up with our upstairs shenanigans.
@helencrozier we can't wait for you to either! Let us know how it goes ;)
The team behind Openvid is something else. Truly awesome guys. I've been playing with their product as they iterate and slam this thing out of the park.
You guys *need* to try this product.
@danielsing3r Dude, thanks for all of your support. Appreciate the ❤️
@davidbyttow Hey man, sorry for the issue you're running into. I looked into our logs and it seems like you were successful at creating your first recording. Did the log in end up working or are you still running into issues?
@_shahedk The oauth redirect kept timing out, but the login did in fact complete. When I refreshed, it reflected that. Then I made a recording. Pretty cool. :)
@davidbyttow Ah, looking into this. Glad you like the recording experience though!
@cindywu it is good to know the relationship is mutual 💑
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What's the difference between you and ViewedIt (https://viewedit.com/)? They look pretty similar.
@lukethomas14 Hey Luke! We appreciate the question over here. As of today the products are fairly similar. We launched Openvid 1.0 ~4 months ago and 2.0 a couple weeks back. Vidyard has been a power user company with 40+ employees using us since the first day we launched. They saw value in building a fraternal twin offering so they did.
Their core product is video analytics and their overall offering is targeted for Sales and Marketing folks. A valuable tool for those individuals.
As for us, we're fortunate enough to be looking at video communication with a fresh set of eyes. It is our core focus. The differences will become more obvious over time but we're already working on some next gen features that will know some socks off 😜
Heyo Product Hunt! 😀
First of all, thank you @hnshah for not only hunting Openvid 2.0, but also being super generous with your time & feedback over the last few months that is now being shipped as the 2.0 product! 👏🏻
@joethomas_x, @vhmth, and I launched Openvid a little over three months ago (100 days to be exact 🎈) and witnessed resoundingly positive feedback from all of you!
Fast forward to today, we have over 12,800+ employees from leading companies such as: Uber, Dropbox, Zendesk, Salesforce, Intercom, and others using Openvid to communicate more effectively in the workplace.
Openvid is the fastest way for you to share knowledge and collaborate more easily––through video. The seamless experience makes it perfect for:
- Walking a co-worker through a project
- Bug tracking/QA (both web & mobile)
- Personalized sales demos
- Customer support
- + many other use cases!
Openvid let’s you do all that (+ more) for free without having to worry about video storage, upload time, or recording time limits.
With this new update, you can now:
- Record your entire desktop (not just limited to the tab anymore!)
- Front facing camera recordings
- Record with a single-click and your videos immediately get uploaded and you are given a shareable URL that you can send out in an email, Slack, Hipchat, etc.
Ask us anything! 💬
@_shahedk totally different use case but this could be huge for livestreamers if you guys supported twitch
@poolnoodle93 @_shahedk hey there Saarim! We don't currently do live streaming from our tool, but you can certainly use it to record live streams! I do it all the time for Skype meetings. :-)
@ddavis haha thanks for the kind words brother. We're due for one of those sushi lunches!
@varunkhona We've been seeing a lot of back and forth communication amongst remote/local employees at work. What used to be a ton of back and forth emails and skype/hangouts sessions has now boiled down to a single asynchronous video detailing everything you need to send over (project materials, time-sensitive info, etc) to another employee half way across the world.
That employee can then respond with a few sentences when it's most convenient for them. Given you're headquartered in India, you should give it a spin and let me know what you think. Keep me in the loop if you have any questions/comments. You have my direct line ;)
This product is one of the best tools I use on a daily basis. Going back and forth with my CTO on bugs or client issues is simply a breeze! So much easier when people can see what you're talking about. Removes the confusion that comes from trying to describe issues with the limitations of words. When clients tell you they love receiving the instruction videos and our onboarding is easy, I give some credit over to these guys! Seeing is believing with OpenVid! You're awesome @_shahedk @joethomas_x and @vhmth
@disruptart @_shahedk @joethomas_x Thank you Sean! Left you a video.
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@vhmth @_shahedk @joethomas_x Thanks Guys! Saying I'm a big fan is an understatement as I've been looking for a product like this that is so simple and easy for a while.
a 2.0 after 100 days, very good pace guys! When can we expect mobile support? We've been using Instabug this past year but Openvid seems like a more suitable fit for Product people. Also a tiny something: https://www.opentest.co/share/43...
@kachchani My man! Thank you very much for catching that bug in the video! Instead of just fixing the bug we decided to deploy an entirely new homepage ;) Thanks @_shahedk for whipping that up so quickly.
Mobile we're looking at the 9-12 month range to hyper focus on desktop video communication for internal teams and external communication. Until the marginal rate of return that we're getting from desktop platform development seems to reach a point of near saturation, we'll quickly hop over to mobile.
Here is a video version of that: https://www.opentest.co/share/8e...
@kachchani @joethomas_x haha we always personally give @_shahedk trouble about his designs (all out of jest), but I must admit he has an eye for it. :-)
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Could we define https://lookback.io/ an Openvid competitor?
Why should I prefer your product? Which are the differences? Are you going to create an iOS/Android SDK?
@stermi Hey Emanuele. Great question. We would have definitely considered lookback.io a tangential competitor as recently as 3 months ago. Where Lookback focused on mobile oriented user video feedback, our technology and platform focused on web oriented user video feedback.
We decided to pivot and utilize our recording technology not for user feedback but for general video communication once we realized how quickly we could get videos to render. I wrote a piece about this for Invision if you're interested: http://blog.invisionapp.com/desi...
Maybe I'm using this tool in the wrong way or at least I'm trying to use it for a different purpose.
I would like to use it to gather user feedback when they test my site/app. One of the main (of many) things that I actually miss is a rich comment system that allow me/team and the final user to discuss about the video.
For istance, a user just sent me a video collecting feedback, I would liket o respond to that video with an answer and I would like that the user reply with another video that will confirm that with that comment he has completed correctly the information.
@stermi hey Emanuele! We definitely have ideas around collaboration/commenting on videos. Mind shooting me an email? I would love to hear what your thoughts are here. vinay@opentest.co
@metalhaze hey Alex the latter point (keeps blocking access) makes me think there is a driver issue between your cam and Chrome. Would you mind emailing me? I'll get this sorted for you immediately. vinay@opentest.co
@rudpunk Would love to hear your thoughts! Btw, very unique and cool personal site you got there :)
Tell us about the seeming slight pivot? Or step in a slightly different direction shall we say ha
Looks very different to what was originally launched
What did you learn since launching?
@bentossell Hey there Mr. Tossell! Thanks for being the first to weigh in.
It is interesting you perceive a slight pivot. We actually built out 2.0 based entirely off of feedback from users of Openvid 1.0. I think we have pushed the product forward in terms of the types of recordings you can do (Desktop Recording & Front Facing Cam) which in essence changes the way people use the video recording tool, but I believe that these new recording types stick to our core of video communication.
There are two different types of videos that can be recorded:
1) Those that are transactional in nature (quick feedback on designs, real-time personalized customer support)
2) Videos that are more evergreen (employee training videos, feature walkthroughs)
We'd love for people to adopt desktop video communication in their day-to-day in a more consumer oriented, personalized way (think Snapchat and now Instagram Stories). But for now we are still heavily focused on business use cases and team communication!
TL;DR we've evolved but haven't pivoted 👶🏽➡️👦🏽
@joethomas_x Yeah I thought 'pivot' was too strong and thats why I said slight different direction haha.
@bentossell true true! I guess I should answer your original question now.
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@jkalmadi thanks Junaid! It's been a huge privilege to be able to get so much valuable feedback from you and have you be our early customer back when we collected video feedback. You're the real MVP.
It's been fun to watch Shahed and the team release and iterate this product. They've got a friction-less experience that makes many different common tasks much more seamless to do right from your Chrome browser. Pretty slick, a must try for any one wanting to learn how they do it. And as a bonus, I'm sure you'll find the product quite useful too!
@hnshah LIFTOFF 🚀 // THANK YOU HITEN!
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