Hi PH! ๐ Jeff here, co-founder & CEO of PingPong. Excited for my first ProductHunt launch.
PingPong is a video messaging app for remote teams. Think of it as Marco Polo or Snapchat (sans ephemerality) for globally-distributed teams. PingPong facilitates effortless facetime for 400+ remote workers across the world by allowing teams to exchange video, voice, and screen recordings at the tap of a button.
Remote work is the future, but Zoom calls are too long, require scheduling, and donโt work across time-zones. Slack chat is great in certain situations, but typing everything out in nuanced scenarios can often feel impersonal, lacks tone, and the text format results in either shallow communication or problem solving via lengthy messages.
Our team has members across four time zones, including co-founders in the US and Nigeria who have been building products remotely together for four years, and a combined 38 years of remote software development experience.
We decided to build PingPong to solve the problems we experienced ourselves as a distributed team. If interested, read more about our story on our HackerNews post: ๐ https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...
**Features**
๐ฅ Video recording
๐ Voice recording
๐ป Screen recording
๐งต Message threading
๐ Link sharing and web player to share recordings externally like Loom
๐ Workspace guests
๐จ 3x playback speed
โจ๏ธ Keyboard shortcuts for most actions
**Use cases**
๐ด Standups
๐จ Design reviews
๐ฃ Team updates
๐ Expressing gratitude & giving feedback
๐ง Brainstorming
๐ Bug reporting
๐ข Customer feedback
๐ฎ Async candidate screening
**Platforms**
๐ป Mac and Windows desktop apps
#๏ธโฃ Slack app (still in beta, contact me if you'd like access)
๐ฑ Android and iOS mobile apps (still in beta, contact me if youโd like access)
**Offer**
While we'll always have a free plan, we'll be adding features into a paid tier over the next several months. As thanks to the community, we'll give $300 credits to all Product Hunt signups for when we start billing. Just contact me to redeem the offer.
As an early startup, we greatly appreciate your feedback and would love to hear your thoughts below! ๐
I'm available anytime for questions or feedback! You can text (801-628-1798) or email (jeff@getpingpong.com).
The PingPong team is on fire! Definitely worth trying out their product.
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@getpingpong@jeff_whitlock super cool! Trying to explain and connect only over typing or scheduled meetings has been one of the biggest frustrations of remote. Everyone is always in meetings nowadays!
Super impressed with how far PingPong has come in such a short time. Give me a 1 minute PingPong video over a stream of consciousness slack discussion any day of the week!
@amanda_zhu โ Absolutely. Thank you for the support! Please let me know if you have any feedback on the product.
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The interface is so intuitive and so easy to use. I can totally see this being used for quick demos, replacing messaging long chats, this is going to be huge.
I love this! My mind immediately goes to all of those random ideas I have that I want to share with my team but donโt warrant an entire call. Right now I jot them down and try to remember at our next sync. Iโll definitely check this out.
@kamiye: Thanks! Connectedness is important, but it's also effectiveness. We believe a "picture is worth a thousand words" and lots of communication can be done more effectively/efficiently over video, voice, and screen.
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The app is great! The app is very useful for remote teams and brings the interaction to another level. ๐ฅ I've met with the team for a brief time and I think they've got the right recipe! The design is thought-out and with the latest update it feels modern and swift!
@glen_creaser: Great question. PingPong enables back-and-forth collaboration because recordings are directly published to the DM/Conversation you record it in. Loom is designed for more one-way broadcasting and publishing.
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@glen_creaser@jeff_whitlock , I'm not sure I understand the comment about Loom and being one-way. Can you elaborate? I have the paid version of the product and I drop videos in channels/DMs for Slack, Teams, Whatsapp, etc. There's a ton of work here, I'm impressed with the desktop app being one place and not bouncing me to the website (Loom) each time I'm finished. I would like to see a much more details on the differences cuz Loom has been a game changer for me, personally.
@rick_segal1: Loom publishes to the web after every video and then requires the user to copy/paste a link to share it somewhere. Because there are so many steps involved here, Loom is not generally used for a collaborative back-and-forth exchange using video.
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@jeff_whitlock: I appreciate the feedback. I concur with your comments in the reply. I'll give it a shot to see. Typically, for me it is more of one way go watch this scenario. It is tho a pain in the arse to be doing all the effort to get a video out.
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