Kavan
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CEO AddLive
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Comment · 13 years ago
AddLive.com - Bay Area - Full Time (http://www.addlive.com)
Do you want to help us change the communications landscape and get freedom and autonomy in very significant role?
We are not a typical Bay startup, we are a scrappy, fun and distributed team of 7 who over 3 years have created some incredible software that allows developers to easily add live video and voice to their applications (web, mobile, desktop).
We are looking for an experienced individual (web technologies, obj-C, Java) who can help create our Solutions team. This team will be responsible for creating a layer on top of our low level APIs and SDKs and our customers' implementations.
Other responsibilities include:
- communicating with our dev community
- support in the PST time zone
- helping setup our Bay Area office
This person will be instrumental in forming our future and will have meaningful equity in the business.
The company has bootstrapped the last two years and is now profitable with around 30 smaller customers. We have recently signed two major enterprise deals to provide audio and video to large valley companies.
If you fill this description and would like to join us please email me, [email protected].
Comment · 14 years ago
Yup W12 I received the email around 6pm PT.
Fingers crossed for S12 and good luck to all the other teams!
Comment · 14 years ago
When Goog bought YouTube it was a mess of content. There was litigation everywhere and no advertisers wanted their products associated with it.
But Google saw the potential in the usage stats. The YouTube search bar was the second most used search bar after theirs.
Similarly Facebook see the social engagement stats of Instagram being similar to their own.
Comment · 14 years ago
Yes we will. iOS first and then Android. Do you require video and voice or just voice?
Comment · 14 years ago
yip we started building this but ran out of resources and had to focus on Roomify.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fms9qM7QG9g
Others have tried (eg edufire.com) but using Flash video chat, which is not great. If people are paying for someone's knowledge/expertise it needs to be delivered perfectly.
Roomify is a more generic version. It is a tool rather than a marketplace. In the future we could do something similar to the above and create a marketplace with in Roomify.
Comment · 14 years ago
Good points.
Roomify simplifies video conferencing. Google Hangouts/Skype require users to be part of a network. In many cases users do not want to 'Contact' users in Skype or join Google+. Since the room is just a url, users can bookmark it and always return to the same room.
The pro version will allow premium users to have password protected rooms, and to white label the rooms with their own url. Since this is all web-based the 'Create a room' button could be placed anywhere, on your own site or on a corporate intranet. It is like having your own 'Hangout'. Not affiliated to anyone and not requiring login.
Our technology allows us to have 1,000's of users in a single room. We have built rooms apps too (shared html whiteboard, screen sharing etc). So in the long term we are looking to 'Roomify' all physical rooms. You could teach a class, hold a conference or just hold a meeting like we offer now.
Finally, we are planning a payment system that will allow room owners to charge to attend their room. So teachers and speakers could earn money from their attendees.
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks.
To get professional quality audio and video we need the user to install a plugin the first time they use the product. This is similar to the Google Hangouts plugin.
The plugin only needs to be installed once. We then automatically update it when the user returns.
Comment · 14 years ago
All feedback welcome.
Comment · 14 years ago
http://www.roomify.tv - One click video meeting rooms. We have applied to YC S12.
Feed back been great so far. Average user time of 6mins and 15% bounce rate.
Would love some more feedback, here or @kseggie, [email protected].