Launch HN: PingPong (YC W21) – Video messaging for remote teams
Hi HN, I'm Jeff, co-founder and CEO of PingPong ( https://getpingpong.com ), where we help remote teams collaborate and stay connected by exchanging video, voice, and screen recordings asynchronously. Think of it as Marco Polo or Snapchat (sans ephemerality) for globally-distributed product teams. We got the idea from our own experience on a different startup. Murphy, the co-founder and CTO, lives in Nigeria, and I live in the US (Utah). We had five other team members spread across three countries and four time zones. The problem for me as a team leader was how to share my ideas, feelings, and updates in a way that felt authentic and conveyed energy. I felt like I was spending my entire life either typing in Slack or scheduling Zoom calls at terrible hours. I had been kicking around the idea for our product in my head for months. At some point, I began thinking more about
Why it failed
Hi HN, I'm Jeff, co-founder and CEO of PingPong ( https://getpingpong.com ), where we help remote teams collaborate and stay connected by exchanging video, voice, and screen recordings asynchronously. Think of it as Marco Polo or Snapchat (sans ephemerality) for gl
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- jeffwhitlock
- Ended
- 2021
- Source
- hackernews