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Comment by tpae | Hacker News Reader

I really like the concept, but I don't understand why you guys are building an entire video conferencing platform. That sounds like years of work building the network and millions of VC funds. It could be a standalone app that exports video to existing conferencing services. I would pay good money for that.

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Thanks! We have a virtual camera on our roadmap as well, but by building the conferencing platform end to end we can optimize both latency and conversation UX to a much higher degree. We're also lucky to be building this now and not five years ago - there are some solid webrtc infra companies and open source projects to build on.

Would companies switch their video conferencing solution to yours, or do you envision them using both side by side?

We're hoping companies with international teams will switch over fully (we have internally), but our initial goal is to attract a subset of the market that has cross-lingual needs and unblock them as much as possible from using it more.

Would love the virtual camera - will be on the look out for it to arrive

Curious about this approach! It looks like you're connecting to https://livekit.io/ under the hood - do you have custom server side components intercepting the video stream and doing video analysis & lip movement patching there?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743327 - looks like they do quite a bit of heavy lifting out of the gate!

By export I assume you mean as a virtual webcam? I would definitely prefer that as a user to be able to use any videoconferencing app.

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