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   by happycipher 6y ago

   Paul Graham has a nice little essay about his perspective on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html . It's pretty lengthy so I would suggest pondering over various sections and re-reading it after a while to
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   by happycipher 6y ago

   Thanks for sharing, I totally agree the inability to have a side conversation on video call makes group conversations so unnatural & zoom fatigue is a big issue! Just out of curiosity, would your perspective about talking to someone cha
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   by happycipher 6y ago

   Hey thanks for the answer! Just out of curiosity, how did your team work to develop that habit when starting out? Is there anything in particular you did to hit that critical mass? I find it can be difficult at times to build that up.
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   by happycipher 6y ago

   Thanks for sharing your perspective! Glad to hear those organized chats have been helping out even if they aren't full replacements.
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   by happycipher 6y ago

   Thanks for the tips! I've heard a few of these methods being tried out these days, especially the games & socials helping out. Just curious, do you find people joining those always on voice channels like Discord often? And are thes
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   by happycipher 6y ago

   Thanks for sharing, definitely agree that having roommates helps a lot with the face to face interaction throughout the day! Curious, do you still reach out to those close coworkers during lunch in some other medium? Or have you found that
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   by happycipher 6y ago

   If the problem sounds interesting to anyone, I hacked up a little landing page to try and explain the proposed app better and gauge interest, https://trychitchat.web.app/ . Shoutout to https://uselander.xyz/
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   by happycipher 6y ago

   Hey there, sorry about the rapid repost! Like I mentioned earlier, I think I messed up somehow the first time because it didn't show up on "Ask HN". I hope I didn't make this redundant for any viewer. Bit new to HN, but
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   by happycipher 6y ago

   Oh ok thanks for the follow up! I definitely agree it's challenging to replicate that kind of situation virtually. Especially if people eat lunch at different times, low visibility as to when they're not busy etc.
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    by happycipher 6y ago

    Hey, I'll check it out, thanks!
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    by happycipher 6y ago

    Hey there! I am the same poster from before and I apologize for the initial post. I think that post got suppressed by HN for some reason. I suspect it's because it somehow spiked up 5 upvotes and I fear they thought I linked it to peop
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    by happycipher 6y ago

    Hey, this link is super interesting thanks so much for linking it! I really like their concept of a spatial dimension to meeting people virtually (reminds me a bit of onlinetown). For the purposes of "breaks" though, considering a
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    by happycipher 6y ago

    Haha, I appreciate the candor! I definitely do like the tranquility now a days when I'm deep in code as well. Just out of curiosity, would your answer also apply in moments when you wanted to take a break (ie got away from the desk, to
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    Ask HN: Anyone else miss spontaneous conversations at work?

    48 points by happycipher 6y ago|37 comments
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    by happycipher 6y ago

    Thanks for the feedback, it's very help and constructive! Regarding the 3rd point about screen fatigue on the computer, would a lower bandwidth (ie phone call or audio), help mitigate that issue? Although lacking non-verbal body cues,
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    by happycipher 6y ago

    Hacked up a landing page to outline the idea better if the problem sounds interesting, https://trychitchat.web.app/ . Would love to hear everyone's thoughts! P.S. https://uselander.xyz/ is a fantastic
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    Ask HN: Anyone else miss spontaneous conversations at work?

    8 points by happycipher 6y ago|7 comments
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    by happycipher 6y ago

    Sorry about the confusing branding haha. We heard a lot of software developers express interest in a tool that provided easy access to all their frequently used symbols, but didn’t want the messiness of a cursor-controlled freehand. Curious
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    by happycipher 6y ago

    Hey, thanks for taking a look! Excalidraw is a great tool and we believe their hosted instance also supports collaboration for multiple users. Open sourcing the project is not in our current plan as we’re focused on iterating and adding mor
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    by happycipher 6y ago

    Totally understand where you’re coming from. Excalidraw is a great standalone whiteboard tool, which is why we forked it to start off our project. This includes some new features that we felt made the experience better for our use cases. Fo
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    Ask HN: Good Tools to Make Landing Pages?

    9 points by happycipher 6y ago|4 comments
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    by happycipher 6y ago

    Thanks for bringing that point up! So just to reiterate for other people, the Hacker News link redirects to our landing page on Notion, which shows how to use a few features we thought would be useful to you (GDrive integration, Slack app e
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    by happycipher 6y ago

    Hey, thanks for the great question! Yep, Miro is a fantastic whiteboarding tool and we've used it in the past. In terms of why it wasn't fulfilling our needs, there were a couple things. First, to give some context, we mainly use
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    by happycipher 6y ago

    Thanks for taking a look! We currently do not have support for free-form drawing. We understood that this could be a valuable feature, but decided on not including it for now to give better access to other symbols that may be more commonly
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    by happycipher 6y ago

    Hey Hacker News, Co-creator of Scribble here. My friends and I are three undergraduate engineering students, and we’re building a digital whiteboard for remote software engineering teams. Earlier this year, we transitioned to remote work du
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    Show HN: Scribble – Realtime Whiteboarding for Developers(notion.so)

    15 points by happycipher 6y ago|16 comments