Chris Messina

Jamboard - It's like a whiteboard, but waaay better. From Google.

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Abhimanyu Rana
Eder Y. Elom KWASI
@planetabhi πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ This is the perfect reaction.
Eric Miller
@planetabhi Gold. 🀣
Chris Messina
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Hunter
The video has a few solid selling points β€” no more snapping crappy whiteboard pics, no more dread that your whiteboard will be erased! Certainly a compelling product, though also pricey!
Kostya Rypta
@chrismessina for $5000 you can buy a car
Hien Lam
@chrismessina I agree there were some good selling points. Felt odd that they saved them until the end though.
Mark Shields
@kostyarypta @chrismessina you can't whiteboard a car
Adam Gering
@kostyarypta For $5000, you can buy 1 minute per work day from 12 Silicon Valley engineers for a year. Will this add 1 minute of daily productivity to a 12 person team?
Hayden Evans
@chrismessina Holy shit - $300 to $600 a year in support and management fees IN ADDITION to the $5,000 board and $1,199 to $1,349 stand?!
Lisa Dziuba
Looks cool :) However, for now, I will keep my multicolor stickers on the wall, which I can show via Skype to my team πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ It's auto-saved, easy to write\erase, synchronized with my brain in a real-time and cost less than $10. Everything is compatible with my mindmaps, calendar, Slack, Product Hunt, Facebook and even with Google Apps! Can work without WiFi. Works perfectly for a small remote startup team.
Ivan Cucer
@lisadziuba definitely! But note, this product was NOT made for teams, startups or even freelancers... This piece of gold is for enterprise use only, unfortunately.
Dean Brady
@ivancucer @lisadziuba Not at $7k a pop. I don't see many companies willing to invest in this. Most won't even replace outdated projectors.. Love to have one but not for that price. Need more details as well on the ecosystem. Can you participate completely without a Jamboard via web or an app? They need to get people into the system and show the added value the Jamboard brings.. MS Surface tables?
Arnie McKinnis
@deanbrady ... agree. This is a "status" product. Probably more likely to be seen in heavily funded startups than most enterprises. There lots of alternatives, but interesting to see where Google/Alphabet are going with their hardware products.
Peyton Hayslette
Paul de Fombelle
Product wanted: "xxx transform any television/monitor into a whiteboard"
Paul Hart
@paulodef https://www.anyractive.com/ kinda gets you there. πŸ‘
Paul de Fombelle
@snakecharmer Then we just need Autodraw to come into Google Keep, Google Documents or Google Drawings
Anup Chathoth
@paulodef we are working on exactly this. at less than 1/10th the cost of jamboard
Arnie McKinnis
@paulodef ... not for a TV, but you could get the Kaptivo and make any whiteboard interactive ... $399 for the camera, pretty cool design, and works with most video conferencing software ... including Zoom. https://shop.kaptivo.com/product...
Niv Dror
Great to see this finally out! *lets seeeee if we can get this at the AngelList office* Looks like new cool way to schedule things / it uses AutoDrawtechnology to auto-correct your doodles πŸ’―
Paul Hart
I wonder if you have to have a physical Jamboard as a central hub or if you could have a remote team with say 10x Surface Pro's and G Suite... and jam away in software.. πŸ€” That'd be cool.
Ondrej David
@snakecharmer Would like to see that possibility. What is it with people they need to limit themselves to whiteboarding, instead of using infinite canvas of their own individual devices and collaborate 100x faster?
Philip Amour
It's like a whiteboard, but it sends all of your data to the cloud so that Google can sell it to your competitor. Yay. Waiting for 53 to introduce something similar but with privacy features in mind.
Andreas Duess
We use mural.ly for online witheboarding. Not as feature-heavy, but works exceptionally well.
Michael Sitver
We had these in school and they were called "smartboards". They could do all of this plus mirror a screen, years ago. Microsoft has the Surface Hub, which is also very similar (but pricier). Seems like they're just trying to compete on price and name recognition. Also, what's with the $600 annual support fee? That seems very Un-Google
Ouriel Ohayon
Google. make it free. with ads :) joke aside...that price...countdown for compelling chinese cheap alternative
Mark Espinola
Perfect! oh wait, $5,000...that takes the air out of the ballon.
Jordan Finnigan
This seems like the type of thing that gets a lot of hype and then everyone figures out it takes 5+ minutes to get booted up, logged in, and drawing/writing. Or you could buy 83 of these and be good to go in ~3 seconds: https://www.amazon.com/Viz-Pro-M...
Mark Thompson
Hmmm... interesting. Interactive whiteboards have been tried in the past, but this looks like it has legs. It's certainly cheaper than the Microsoft Surface Hub (https://www.microsoft.com/micros...), but it doesn't seem to have the conferencing ability that device has (unless it's hidden deep on the Jamboard website). I'll keep an eye on this one.
Paul Hart
@merriman the specs PDF indicates all the hardware required to conference. I suspect it'd be a hangouts experience.
Angad Singh
@snakecharmer @merriman So does this prelaunch video
Kunal Bhatia
If only the Pied Piper or Not Hotdog teams used Jamboard. They could've had a kitten emoji AutoDraw next to the Product Hunt bullet. 🐈
Cherepukhin
What a HUGE iPad, wow.
Mohamed Oulmaki
A $4,999 giant iPad? Apple is getting some serious competition here πŸ˜‚
Farhan Ali

Feels like Jarvis with no voice

Pros:

Amazing new tech. Would love to have one for my team.

Cons:

Pricey

Dre DurrπŸ’‘
This is DOPE
Camron Cade
Look's like a really good solution for companies with remote employees - being able to share the board live with others is a killer feature.