Does it use WebRTC? The last time I've looked at this - and what stopped me from releasing a more polished MVP of the same low impact continuous meeting-not-a-meeting concept - is that the only way to scale WebRTC is to use your own paid infrastructure. The only peer to peer topology available WebRTC clients support is a star, so without a multiplexing server you are practically limited to a handful of peers in any session.
So you are either offering a slow and very limited free service, or you need to pay hand over fist and burn venture capital to basically compete with Zoom and WebRTC. Slowing the video stream to very low FPS does help somewhat with scaling, but makes for a niche product.
If you can crack P2P multiplexing and offer an unlimited free service, and tack on some fremium model on that, that this thing can take off like a rocketship, if for no other reason that every team leader in the world wants a continuous feed of their remote worker's desktop. A free and capable screen sharing app can become THE tool for collaboration, disrupting things like Slack if the right features are there.
I'm seriously interested to cofound something like that, let me know if anything I've said makes sense to you.
I'm not sure what you are arguing here: that low performance teams do not exist, or that they do not need to be managed, or that we should provide free educational resources to their managers instead of selling them the tools they want?
It's a real problem real companies face, look at r/overemployed for a taste.
Again, it's not clear to me if we're talking about the positive or the normative, descriptive or prescriptive, the way things are right now, or the way they should be in an ideal world.
Ah, yes, consistent spying on workers to make managers feel better. How about you feed each frame to an LLM for AI powered productivity monitoring? How about you incorporate web cam for next gen AR AI companionship? How about you make it customizable so that managers can easily roll out and maintain appropriate cultural practices? Studies show synchronized boot clicking, twice daily, can foster excellent dedication and energy to the improtant taskd at hand. Zillion dollar idea buddy.
We're talking about a collaboration tool here, and there is no jurisdiction that I know of where employing such tools, even when mandated by the employer, is unlawful; definitely not related to GDPR which is completely out of scope here.
Of course, as any tool can be used for bad things, so if, say, instead of the default sharing of just the development apps, the employee shares his browser, email client or instant messenger which he uses for personal purposes, you could argue it crosses the line into unlawful workplace surveillance, so it becomes a matter of setting correct policies. Sounds to me like an enterprise feature set you could charge for, as complement to the free tier.
This is a wild exaggeration. Again, GDPR is not relevant here and private communication on the employer's infrastructure generally caries no reasonable expectation of privacy, at least in the US, double more so when you are actively sharing that email with your team.
So you are either offering a slow and very limited free service, or you need to pay hand over fist and burn venture capital to basically compete with Zoom and WebRTC. Slowing the video stream to very low FPS does help somewhat with scaling, but makes for a niche product.
If you can crack P2P multiplexing and offer an unlimited free service, and tack on some fremium model on that, that this thing can take off like a rocketship, if for no other reason that every team leader in the world wants a continuous feed of their remote worker's desktop. A free and capable screen sharing app can become THE tool for collaboration, disrupting things like Slack if the right features are there.
I'm seriously interested to cofound something like that, let me know if anything I've said makes sense to you.