[HN Gopher] Show HN: We're building a virtual meetup platform
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Show HN: We're building a virtual meetup platform
Author : tryvenu
Score : 12 points
Date : 2020-08-05 21:50 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| oehpr wrote:
| a "Virtual meetup platform" confused me. I signed up thinking
| this was a platform where my coworkers could meet up to discuss
| things, an alternative to meet or zoom.
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| But this is actually a premium access streaming platform. You
| sell tickets for events or seminars or whatever. take a cut of
| the tickets and host the event. Good for things like training
| seminars or whatever.
|
| I think that kind of makes the introduction page a bit of a fail,
| It seems every person who makes the introduction page for their
| product always suffers HARD from the curse of knowledge. You MUST
| spend a huge amount effort clearly explaining what your product
| is and is not. There is simply no latitude for flowery bullshit
| language like "Explore a world of limitless experiences. Use our
| platform to discover what drives you. Bring your passions; we'll
| bring the community." Users don't have the patience to read this,
| and you don't have the time to be speaking it.
|
| That said. Maybe this is something that only matters for posts
| like this one. Where the people coming to your site are likely in
| your target audience. Maybe the bulk of your customers will be
| coming from referrals which will never even see the introduction
| page. Maybe it's not worth worrying about?
|
| Well. Best of luck anyway.
| agranok wrote:
| Hey, I work on Venu. We're actually in the process of coming up
| with some new content/verbiage for the site because we actually
| agree with you. We came up with content for this very early on
| in development. This landing page served initially as a way for
| people to sign up for closed beta and eventually we don't plan
| to use it. But yea we will come up something better in the
| future for sure! Thanks!
| abraae wrote:
| > But this is actually a premium access streaming platform. You
| sell tickets for events or seminars or whatever. take a cut of
| the tickets and host the event. Good for things like training
| seminars or whatever.
|
| This is not an easy problem. It's always intriguing to me how
| hard it is to write a clear description of your own product
| that explains WTF it really is.
|
| Yet someone external (as above) can often cut to the chase with
| a pithy and useful description.
|
| I genuinely don't know what the reason is. In this example, I
| guess "premium access streaming platform" are not words the
| marketing team would like (maybe it sounds a bit porn-like ?).
|
| Yet it is certainly way better than "virtual meetup platform",
| because it clearly conveys who pays what and for whom.
|
| And this is as clear as a bell "You sell tickets for events or
| seminars or whatever. take a cut of the tickets and host the
| event. Good for things like training seminars or whatever.".
|
| But again, that's kind of language that the marketing guys/gals
| might eschew as overly informal/familiar - even though it
| encapsulates beautifully why I might want to investigate this
| product.
| rexreed wrote:
| What are you using for streaming technology?
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| Can you allow multiple simultaneous presenters from different
| locations?
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| What are your price points?
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| What are your attendee limits?
|
| What sort of presentation content do you support?
|
| Why are you calling these meetups instead of online events?
| jvictor118 wrote:
| This is awesome. While I agree with @oehpr on some of the
| details, I love the idea of marketing it specifically for the
| purpose of running events. Using Zoom for that seems klugey.
| tryvenu wrote:
| We're building a virtual meetup platform in hopes of bridging the
| gap between in-person and virtual experiences.
|
| We're running open beta now, so any opinions / feedback is
| welcomed :)
|
| https://app.venu.tv
| ozten wrote:
| I'd love a special or grouping aspect so that you can limit or
| focus conversations.
|
| I've been in a VR hangout and one person was monopolizing the
| conversation. Walking away is a very natural signal and allows
| for a new side conversation to form.
|
| It doesn't have to be VR of course, but some kind of break out
| session while the main content continues.
| ve55 wrote:
| I looked at it for a few minutes and it seems like it is mostly
| focused on there being a single presenter at a time, and then
| an audience for them.
|
| In order to better replicate the benefits from meetups and
| conferences in real life, I think being able to allow users to
| more organically interact with each other sounds like a nice
| feature to work on.
|
| Is there anything like this, or anything planned like this?
| agranok wrote:
| Hey, I'm part of the team at Venu! Initially we only
| supported the single streamer. Recently, however, we
| introduced support to have multiple people share their screen
| and present at one time (as long as they're invited as
| organizers for the meetup). We're in the process of updating
| the verbiage on the site to better reflect some of the
| updates we've made in the past few months!
|
| Eventually we have plans to introduce breakout sessions or
| another way for viewers to be able to communicate more
| privately.
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