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Headroom 2.0 — Hands free meetings with real time AI video conferencing
Headroom enables natural video calls. Our AI recognizes gestures, provides real-time transcripts and summaries, and allows you to search across replays, transcripts and notes. Focus on people and let Headroom automate away the work.
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@berthakgokong Bertha - it's free for now. The plan is to have some sort of activity-based pricing at some point. Use it as much as you want until we work it out!
Hi PH friends,
Julian from Headroom here. The world has spent the last year and a half in video-conference hell. We’ve built a real-time AI enabled video conferencing service, from the ground up, to save us all from that.
Headroom uses real-time AI to make video conferencing smarter and more natural - enhanced video and audio quality at lower bandwidth, real-time transcripts, one-click notes, gesture recognition, real-time share of speaking time by participant, cloud video recordings and replays, searchable transcripts and notes.
Check it out at www.goheadroom.com because it’s meant for busy startup meeting people like you. It works on Chrome (Chromium browsers), and Computer for now, and integrates with Google Calendar. It’s free.
Challenge - See if you can discover the 4th gesture recognized in Headroom meetings… 👍 👎 ✋ ? ... No, not that one!
We’d love to get your feedback, and are around for questions.
Julian
Congrats on the launch 🚀 Looks like a great product. Lot of use cases and pain points that I personally have you folks have solved. We will definitely try it tomorrow on our stand up 🙌🏼
@juliangreensf This is an awesome product!! Congratulations on the launch... I see how I could use it!!
It seems that when you invite someone to a call, they have to sign up to join… That really limits the use cases. I don’t want to force a stranger to sign up for yet another service before they can talk to me. The point is to reduce friction…
@anna_0x Thanks Anna. I hear you on reducing friction. At the moment you need to register to the extent of giving an email and clicking an emailed verification link. The logic is that this is appropriate for a service that is not just for video-conferencing, but by default saves all your meeting information so that you can search, review and share it as appropriate. Your meeting information is private by default, and you wouldn't want strangers seeing it.
@juliangreensf that makes sense but then positions the product as something for teams and companies to use internally~
This looks like a creative approach to video. I'm especially interested to understand the HD video streams with no bandwidth impacts Are you using an MCU?
Congrats on the launch! I’ve been using Headroom for several months for my customer discovery/sales calls and the real-time transcript is a killer feature for me. I’m not stressing out about capturing valuable information and at the same time I can fully focus on the conversation. Now I'm also using Headroom for my team meetings.
@sophia_arakelyan Thanks Sophia - it's definitely a relief to be able to take your hands off the keyboard, and use them for communicating instead
I've been using this product on a number of conference calls recently and it's been really great. I love the auto-transcription feature and little pieces of polish like recognizing when I have a thumbs up or down just add to the experience. This is a really important space given the remote work environment that is likely going to be the norm (or really important) for a long time, so it's great to see new products coming out tackling the bigger players.
@avimuchnick Thanks Avi. Gesture recognition is both surprisingly hard to get right, and powerful when you have it right. When I meet on other tools, I am disappointed when I gesture and nothing happens!
@avimuchnick Thanks Avi! We are looking forward to working on the next generation of tools to enhance people's work.
Got to use this very early on and it was crazy impressive. Such a better experience than any of the other dozen apps I've been forced to use these past 20 months. Grats to the Headroom crew on the launch!
Looks superb, not used yet. A couple of questions (sorry if answered before) - 1/ can I show screen, 2/ how long will it be free?
@parthabha Yes, you can share screen, and multiple people can share screens at the same time. It will be free until we work out how we want to charge for it, but free for now!
Congrats on the launch guys! Haven't had a chance to try it yet. Curious to understand, what do you feel is the biggest upgrade over the competing products?
@simonvl we aren't just delivering pixels, we're helping people understand each other
Congrats on the public launch! The best part is that you don't need to memorize or write down anything from your meetings, and you can get back to the smart meeting transcripts any time. Super useful!
Just a short follow-up. I've been using Headroom on and off all day and it's been smooth. Very impressive!
This looks pretty helpful and very neatly executed, congrats. ?makers I'm having to navigate questions around accessibility and data sovereignty - can you tell me what stack/service/API you are using for the live transcriptions and where the servers are located that the processing takes place? Thanks!
@amrabino yes, we all know that the cloud is a bunch of computers in someone elses basement. I am asking whose basement and what software is running. The location of serves is a valid concern for EU clients who need to comply with data protection legalities. The kind of software powering the translation is a valid concern for people who need assistive technology. If the answer ist "that's our proprietary tech stack" that's a valid non-answer, but I am hoping that you can shed light on the things you are able to answer to help us users make informed decisions - and help you target your audience better.
Congrats team! It'd be great if could be combined with Akkadu Multilingual SDK (https://www.producthunt.com/post...) allowing users to host multilingual meetings with AI translated subtitles or Professional interpreters.
Love their virtual backgrounds. This is the only video conferencing product which doesn't think that my face is part of the background. :)
@zomglings Thanks Neeraj. You are definitely a foreground personality, I'm glad we get the computer vision right for you.
The first time I used Headroom I was blown away by the gesture recognition. We're all social animals, and it's the small and thoughtful innovations like this that help keep us connected right now. Excited to see what's coming next.
Kudos for such a great product! I have not tried it yet but can't wait to try it out. It is too bad my team's next meeting is until next month. I have a question, so far real time transcript only supports English, is that correct?
Just checked out Headroom for a call this AM and love the improvements over the now baseline functionality offered by Zoom/Teams/Google Meet. It's nice to have transcripts that you can take action on after a meeting and I really like the gesture feature. This is really less about video calls and more about being a new team collaboration tool that you can integrate into the way you work, not just give you more things to do at once. Looking forward to more team meetings and less call busy work for the team. Nice work @juliangreensf
@ddukes We've had a ton of fun building Headroom, hope you enjoy using it. Thanks for the feedback!
Searchable transcripts and meeting recaps are a huge time saver for me! Also, those real-time reactions make any meeting a bit more fun :)
@shamakai Real-time reactions. We have been starved on really real-time communication for too long!
@ash_patel Definitely! We want to bring the focus on what matters the most - connecting with people and give you time back in your day.
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