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Whereby — Freedom to work from anywhere.
Easy and flexible meetings in the browser. Create your permanent own video room (whereby.com/your-room) that guests can join simply by clicking the link. No downloads or registration required by guests, no host required in meetings.
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Edoardo Parisi
Using it since u were appear.in ;) Keep going guys! Love your product
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Wow, this is quite the brand overhaul! Previously it was much more staid...!
@chrismessina Thanks for hunting us @chrismessina! 😄 We have come a long way since the original hunt in 2014, so the brand was very overdue for a facelift. Hope you will like the new version and let me know if you have any feedback!
I use Whereby since appear.in era and pushing everyone to use it on almost all of my internal/external meetings. Really liked the idea and the performance of the product. Also, kudos to the logo!
I really like this. I messed around with appear.in but it never grabbed me and this does. I've been using video communication software since the stone ages so I feel like I have seen it all. Great job. I will use for meetings and for my Authenticated community. Really want to know when you will allow for more users or is it possible after the room hits capacity for viewers to still view but not participate. For example if I wanted to DJ a set tonight from my kitchen in a one to many use (joking not joking, I do spin)
@keyinfluencer Hey James, and yes the Pro plan can have up to 12 participants. Our new meetings plans are also going to support even larger rooms.
@lnchoi Personally I see a better response with Whereby, why I personally pay for it.
There's free competition coming into this space, take a look sometime at itshello.co or jitisi.org sometime.
Jitsi.org seems pretty nice, have yet to use it in practice though
Love it, great re-branding and design. Going to test out with free version for client calls, thanks for creating this
@vadivelk Hey Vadi! Thanks for your feedback. I hope what you're seeing is the beautiful custom Roslindale Condensed made by the amazing David Jonathan Ross (https://djr.com/roslindale/) for Whereby. And if so it is condensed by design. We use this font for titles only. For larger blocks of text we also use Roslindale Text for better legibility. In addition to Inter (https://rsms.me/inter/) for body copy.
Big fan right here. The only solution that allowed me to make video calls in the middle of nowhere in Thailand.
Been using Whereby for video conferencing with customers. Very easy to use and intuitive.
Hi everyone! I’m Ingrid, Co-founder and Chief Product & Technology Officer of Whereby. We are thrilled to finally launch the new version of Whereby, comprised of two large changes:
1. A total makeover of the brand identity and product design
2. A complete rewrite of the web client, to make it responsive and more performant
After our change of name from appear.in to Whereby in August, we have spent the last few months on building out a new visual profile for the Whereby brand, starting with our team’s vision as the foundation: to give people the freedom to work and live where they thrive.
We believe that flexible working should be (and will become) the default way of working. We believe people do their best work when they are happy and live a meaningful life. Different people need different surroundings to do their best work, and each and every one of us knows best what works for ourselves. With the flexibility to collaborate from anywhere, we want to let our users take back control of their working day and reduce the stress of balancing work and personal life.
The new Whereby is designed to give our users flexibility and freedom. We wanted a design that was more human and calm than most software services out there, while keeping the playfulness and curiosity that the old appear.in brand had. You can read about the process behind the new brand in this post.
In parallell with the new design, we have also rebuilt our web client from the ground up to make it responsive and work on in the browser on all devices. Finally it is possible to join from the browser on iOS, where before you had to download the app! The new web includes lots of performance improvements, new welcome pages, emoji reactions, new chat and soon also support for larger meetings with up to 50 people. To learn more about all these changes check out our blog.
We hope you like the new design. Everything is not perfect yet, but we’ll keep working to make it the easiest video meeting experience out there! We’d love to hear any things you think can be improved.
@ingridod Congratulations on the launch! ;) i love it as always.
Is there a way we can embed the link? so i can add on my website?
Also wow you all overhaul your brand from appear in to the new colour.
I really enjoy using this, especially when i'm nomading and i need to conference quickly, i just use the mobile app and i just connect it on the go and use my earpiece, no hassle.
Hi @fajarsiddiq! We have an early version of a developer API as an extension of our Business plan, that let you create ad hoc rooms programmatically and embed them on your site. You can see the documentation on whereby.dev and read more here: https://whereby.com/information/...
@fajarsiddiq You can see it in action by testing our new Trello Power-up that lets you open a room embedded in a Trello board: https://trello.com/power-ups/55a...
@fajarsiddiq @ingridod New Whereby user and I've fallen in love! We use it to talk with our remote team and our users weekly. Is the meetings api still available as an extension of the business plan? Would love to try that out but the current price of the api is too high for us. If you're open for a lower tier option, sign me up!
We used appear.in for a few years now. Got the pro account the month they launched it, but cancelled it a month ago.
We ended up switching to Zoom.
A few issues we ran into:
- No SIP/landline call-in (biggest issue for us)
- Doesn't work with all browsers since it's WebRTC based and there is no native app. When arranging calls with enterprise customers, some were on browsers that were incompatible with appear.in/Whereby
- Video quality seems inferior to Zoom
- I personally feel like the appear.in name was better
- Lack of integrations (such as Google Calendar integration)
Advantages of appear.in/Whereby:
- Price
- Ease of use
Just tried it/downloaded it, super simple onboarding! Always wanted a very simple link to set up e-meetings with, love this!
This is amazing. I was a DAU for appear.in and used it for most of my remote meetings. Love the new brand and new identity. Congrats guys. Excited to start using Whereby