Name: Mixvisor
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Visor

Request a photo or video from any location, right now

Visor is an online tax filing and advisory solution that removes the hassle and complexity from doing your taxes. Our experienced team will help you file your return and advise year-round for a flat fee.

Launch tags:

Android•iOS•Productivity

Launch Team

Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt

Here's another addition to Teleportation Apps collection. @besvinick first showed me Visor a few weeks ago. While interesting, I'm not sure how often I want to request a photo of a specific location, considering the ~30 minute wait. Now, if it was near real-time, that would be very compelling and certainly feasible in the coming years as wearables + livestreaming gains adoption. Right, @kayvz? 😉

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10yr ago

Jason White

Mixvisor

Maker

@besvinick @kayvz @rrhoover thanks for your interest in Visor. We just launched a new version last week (Friday March 27) and it's a big step forward in UX and fulfillment speed. You'll often receive live photos of locations in New York in just a couple of minutes. Fulfillment times in this new version are down by more than 50% and we've seen a nearly 7X increase in volume of new requests since the update. Feel free to check out the new version and let us know what you think. While we're officially limiting our support to New York City for the moment, we'll be announcing other cities shortly and we're confident Visor is much closer to the 'very compelling', instant gratification paradigm you're excited about (and we are too!)

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10yr ago

Alex

Tiny Notes

@besvinick @kayvz @rrhoover @nycjw It's interesting. I just like this type of product in general. could be interesting to use Twitter or other platform to help spread the request

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10yr ago

Jason White

Mixvisor

Maker

@besvinick @rrhoover @alexyoungkwon Thx Alex. Yes especially given what a great job @kayvz and others have done leveraging Twitter, we think there may be something useful in that for certain aspects of Visor.

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10yr ago

Adam Cudworth

Surely this isn't going to work unless you've got a huge number of users? What are the chances of someone being in place x, having Visor on their device and being willing to send a photo/video back? Nice idea, but just can't see how you're going to get enough people to download the app in order to make it work.

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10yr ago

Jason White

Mixvisor

Maker

@adamcudworth thanks and great question! In order to overcome this ‘cold start’ problem, Visor has its own people roaming around so that if a ‘regular user’ isn’t in a certain spot at a given moment, one of our roaming team members can bike/drive over to a location and deliver the requested photo in just a few moments. We’ve been refining this system in New York for a few months and it’s working well! We plan to officially launch a number of other cities with similar operations soon. Likewise, in our next version of the app (coming in days) Visor will allow users to offer monetary rewards as an incentive to others. This means you could add $1, $2, or $5 for example to increase the chances that someone will claim and fulfill your request quickly, even if it means they have to travel a few blocks to do so. Make sense? In short, we have systems in place to ensure Visor will work at all levels of scale. Give it a shot and let us know how it's working for you as we grow!

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10yr ago

Mike Bestvina

Enterprise Should Suck Less - #23 - Drew DeWalt

@adamcudworth @nycjw this is a great idea. You could easily add a gamification layer and people would use it. Seriously, people love internet points...or even "mayor" type stuff a la 4sq style. Additionally, it might be worth limiting it to certain cities (NYC/SF are good ideas) at first and then putting people on waiting lists for other cities.

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10yr ago

Jason White

Mixvisor

Maker

@adamcudworth @mbesto Thx Mike and welcome to the Visor community! Great call-- we're actually really excited about some of these gamification opportunities and have already begun to explore a few angles. Other users have shown real interest in the same direction and we appreciate the feedback. As for cities, we're currently encouraging usage in NYC first (which we're supporting officially) and we plan to announce support for a number of other cities soon. We considered restricting use outside our official cities (i.e waiting lists) but for now we've decided to let people engage and play around since the app can still be quite useful and fun, even if community size is a little smaller in some places. Thanks again for the feedback and let us know how you're enjoying things as the product and community grow!

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10yr ago

Matt Hamlin

This is an idea I have been working on for the past week or two but with live streaming, allowing people to request others to livestream a specific location/event. Really cool for validation to look at an app like this!

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10yr ago

Jason White

Mixvisor

Maker

@immatthamlin Hey Matt thanks for your comments, it's always nice to hear about people working on big and/or similar ideas! We're definitely excited about the implications of live video by request and are in final stages developing/testing this feature for inclusion in Visor. If you'd ever like to chat, feel free to tweet at me personally or send an email to info AT visor.co and someone will reach out to talk.

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10yr ago

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