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Thomas Knoll

Zoom - Cloud video conferencing and simple online meetings

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Zoom is a powerful online meeting tool for large, distributed teams.

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Chris Sel
Is this better than the one Dinesh was working on while at Pied Piper?
Ari Joseph
@chrissel damnit someone got there before me
Product Pearson
@chrissel Winning comment of the year.
Kumar Thangudu
This product is the only one that doesn't freaking crash. Skype sucks. Google Hangouts Sucks. It sucks so much that someone made a domain name called http://hangoutnow.com that simply points to the google hangout. A total fail in accessibility and ease of use. Zoom is freaking amazing. Distributed teams of 20+ and it has high fidelity connections and speed. I'd recommend this to anyone in the fast paced high cost manufacturing space where every second means $25-$100
Justin Ziccardi
FYI: While it may have been valid 2 years ago, that hangoutsnow link sets off malware warnings for me in Chrome / Safari.
Edwin Halim
I like appear.in. Design is freaking simple and it just works.
Jack Van Antwerp
@edwinshalim I've been using for far flung places like Africa etc, even driving down the highway with the mobile app and it's been amazing. I'm curious about zoom but appear.in would be hard to beat I think. (and the free version is plenty for me)
Edwin Halim
@jack_van_antwerp Well I've had the chances to use zoom. I can say that the software is reliable but oh man they need to work on their UI/UX. I'd say appear.in for more casual users or smaller teams, zoom for them business and corporate people.
Jack Van Antwerp
@edwinshalim Yes it does sound like zoom is more enterprise focused. I haven't used it or needed it yet, been blown away by appear.in
Marlon Wayne
@edwinshalim right? I don't know why more people don't use appear.in
Will Brown
@edwinshalim Completely agree. appear.in is FREE requires no downloads and just works every time. great for meetings or ad-hoc product demos
Thomas Knoll
Hunter
We have a distributed team, and we use zoom all day every day to stay connected and quickly jump into conversations when needed. It is really easy to connect on mobile and desktop.
Gilles Bertaux
Been using Zoom in a past life, probably one of the best tools out there for 1:1s. Not sure for webinars though :p Strong bias obviously. We're a webinar software ourselves, and we believe in the full browser experience (shameless plug: https://livestorm.co), curious about Zoom position about WebRTC and the in-browsers webinars.
Bala S.
Sequoia invests $100 million in Zoom video conferencing service - http://tcrn.ch/2k10QPk
Helen Crozier
Have been investigating and like what I see so far. If only it had a payment option to charge for webinars I'd be in seventh heaven. Maybe able to fix something up with eventbrite. App sharing from mobile devices via airplay is very cool.
Gene Fan
Excellent product - it's good to see Zoom get some buzz.
Pillow John

The audio quality is so bad that it's the same level as a payphone. Really not worth paying money for when there are better solutions.

Pros:

Has every feature you need

Cons:

REALLY bad audio quality.

pramod raheja
Zoom.us rocks....I use it for all my company comms for screen shares and such and we use it for ALL EO (Entrepreneur's Organization) calls
David Wang
We started using Zoom more and more over the past few weeks. It's simple and easy to use. Also, the free plan is awesome to get you started and hook in new users. Look forward to the product roadmap and see what else is coming. Great job team!
Isaac Naor
I've been using Zoom for over 4 years now, and have converted dozens of companies to it. Founded and built by Eric Yuan (the dude who built WebEx), the platform was designed to be everything WebEx isn't; fast, light and instantaneous. Highly recommended.
Hugo Magalhaes
Zoom has been a life saver in our remote team. Easy to use, quick to share with team members and customers, definitely one of the best options available.
Kristi Anderson
Zoom is a must-have product for us and our users at Reclaim.ai. So much that we built a Zoom integration that auto-syncs your Slack status to "in a meeting" or Do Not Disturb when you enter/leave a Zoom call: https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Jaswinder Brar
Feature Suggestion: I would love to see a trello.com integration into your cloud video conferencing technology to boost productivity! I hope this helps! Best, JB.
Eric Knopf
We've been using Zoom for years. I dont know how they do it, but the quality and reliability are ridiculously amazing. We use it several times a day for our distributed team. Skype and Hangouts simply dont cut it for team calls. They are buggy, audio gets out of sync, not to mention the 15 minutes it takes for new people to figure it out and get on the call. Way to go zoom!
Esley Svanas
I'm curious about this, does it work when you plug into a TV via a HDMI cable? That's the #1 pain point for us, the sound and mic get all screwed up when we use hangouts and project on a TV. The sound comes through the TV but the mic may not work, sometimes the opposite. It's to the point where we use hangouts for screensharing and a dial in for voice. Yes we've tried adjusting the settings for the hangout as well as the sound settings on the mac and it still has issues.
Jonathan Berkowitz
Oh... So Skype
Krishan Gupta
I can't say enough good things about Zoom. It's like getting a glass of cool water when you're stranded in the desert. One feature idea though... use the camera to record who keeps messing with the cables between meetings...
Nathaniel Heller
I know one problem that my office runs into is that when we all hop on a Google Hangout, the latency makes being in the same room infuriating. As a result, we all end up in different rooms. I guess the TV solution is a potential fix for this, but I'm wondering if Zoom has some sort of feature to help minimize this issue.