Here is a new real-time, shared canvas where teams and friends can video chat, upload pics, decorate with GIFs, write, draw and screenshare -- all in a browser.
I've been testing Here for a while now and it's such a fun, collaborative way to connect with people. Zoom's and Google Hangouts are getting old, so I'm excited to see a fun alternative!
If you're just discovering Here and @jexe he's a creative genius! I've been lucky enough to work with him and he is always pushing the boundaries on product and code. I can't wait to see where Seth and him take Here.
Congrats @jexe and @sethharris for launching Here (the app) on here (Product Hunt)!
I have been chatting with Seth & Jesse a ton about here.fm
Atm it's my go-to tool for crazy team happy-hours.
To me personally, it's myspace meets whiteboard meets video party.
I love using Here for design sessions, collaborating with other creatives and doing critiques. It's easy for me to share a screen and outline notes for the team or my friends. Whenever I'm working with founders we can share screens at the same time and I can pull up examples of what I'm talking about, as well as drag and drop images/screenshots simultaneously. It's like having a design war room to collaborate in, every time we want to meet. It's amazing!!
The Gif feature let's you really create a vibe too and almost make it like your own podcast show. Keep it up guys!
Hey PH! So excited to show you something @seth_harris and I have been hacking on.
Here is a new real-time, shared canvas where teams and friends can video chat, upload pics, decorate with GIFs, write, draw and screenshare -- all in a browser.
In March, we were all thrown into sudden remote life, and our wellbeing and ability to connect on a human level took a big hit. We tried to get by on Slack and Zoom, and while talking to each other while remote is easy, actually working together to build something new is really hard! So - we built Here, essentially as a tool to build Here.
Three important points about Here:
🧑🎨 It’s more than video: Decorate your room, draw, share notes, screens, and images, play games, and more.
🐣 It’s crazy easy: A few clicks on Chrome and someone is in a room with you on video.
🔒 It’s persistent: Lay out a room today and it will look just how you left it tomorrow.
💸 Bonus point: It’s free! So there’s no reason not to check it out. ;)
What are our early users doing on Here? A few examples:
⚔️ War Rooms: You know that room we all had in our office plastered with charts, plans, goals and a big sign that said “Do NOT Erase!!!”? Build one in Here in minutes.
🎸 Jam Sessions: Brainstorming, working through killer calculus problems, or playing games all work better when you’re sharing a common canvas.
🍻 House Parties: Zoom happy hours are the least happy of all. Host on Here to traverse different rooms, co-watch videos, share, and hang just like the good old days.
👨👩👦👦 Normal, everyday meetings. The ones where you need to share, collaborate, see someone’s authentic reaction, or just express ideas clearly. Customize rooms for everything from 1:1s to sprint planning to a virtual graduation to a D&D game.
Our ask to the community:
- Try it! Go to here.fm and create your first room in seconds.
- Share your room’s URL to get friends to join, or swap out a meeting in your calendar with a Here room and try it with your team.
- Please send us feedback! In Here, Discord, or comments.
Congrats to the launch!!! Most interfaces these days look the same and don't feel "personal" anymore. Here.fm makes it fun to discover new features and make the space feel yours.
I love jumping around different spaces and see how people designed theirs.
Congrats Jesse and Seth! :)
@jexe & @sethharris are creative geniuses — Here makes WFH life fun and collaborative. It's a much better experience than typical video conferencing and it can be used for meetings, team lunches, happy hours, and much more!
@jexe@smh We've had ~20 in a room with good performance. We expect some wonkiness around 30 to 40 concurrent users in a room, but we haven't done full perf testing yet.
We've been using Here for a few months for our standups, Friday team lunches and even bedtime chats with colleagues. The things I most value in Here are audio quality and concurrency: people can talk and listen at the same time with no order, so it's natural and fast. It felt so liberating after the Zoom prison.
For a relaxing bedtime chat you can set the aura of a night time, e.g. candles, quiet ambient music, tranquil background of a night sky with stars, and it stays persistent! Playing Tic-tac-toe brings in some genuine smiles as well :)
Here brought intimacy back! Thank you Here team!
I love that a sense of fun is built into every detail of this product. Why did WFH ever have to feel so dull and monotonous? Here shows us a better way, and it's a refreshing change!
I've been using Here for virtual guitar lessons for a month or so and it's been awesome! We can pull up sheet music side by side with a youtube video of a song we're working on, and build out entire spaces dedicated to different songs and techniques. Would highly recommend it!
Out team keeps our Here link in our slack channel and use it for daily syncs and random meetings. We love it as our virtual conference room. We often discover new features that come in really handy like multiple screen shares for pair programming. Here is definitely a lot funner and less exhausting to use compared to Zoom and Meet.
I've been using here.fm for collaborating with engineers while being remote. It's been amazing feeling like we're in the same room while we brainstorm some problem. Having the ability to add pictures, draw on them, and keep notes makes it much easier to be remote.
This feels like discord for collaborating!
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