I remember ads in Video Game magazine claiming you could get free video games. You would actually pay by dialing 1 Hour or so on a very expensive service.

Site seems down, here is the archived version http://web.archive.org/web/20210121151535/https://blog.feabh...

I recently open-sourced another Jitsi based plateform, and also implementing a custom interface.

This is more oriented toward professional meeting, but is part of the trend of doing more that just plain video conference. code https://github.com/retrolution/open-fishbowl and version on https://retrolution.github.io/open-fishbowl/?tableViewEnable...

I guess the first question you want to answer, is to define which kind of company you want to build ?

As a founder, as you say, you want to optimize the impact of your company. I am not sure what you mean by traditional companies, but startups are not about maximizing profit. At least not in the short term.

VCs are looking at maximizing their returns on investement when the company exits, not based on dividends.

If you don't want create a startup, but what I would call a traditional company, ie not looking for hypergrowth, but that your company is profitable, then lots of people are probably willing to invest in it.

With the rise of video conferences solutions, I have been working trying to make them better and reducing the gap with physical interactions.

One simple thing I've done is this chrome extension to add party poppers in Google Meet. This is so far the project I've done with the biggest traction. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-party-...

My long term shot is creating a solution for agile teams and facilitators. https://meet.retrolution.co/

I am actually working on a Jitsi meet fork dedicated to agile Team https://meet.retrolution.co/

So far I added features such as Poker planning and post is drawing. Any feedback welcome ;-)

Hi, I think there could be some synergies between what I'm working on and what you are doing. Couldn't find a way to contact you other than Twitter or LinkedIn, if you want to have a talk my email is in my profile :)

done ;-)

Why fork? Did they not want your patches?

Good question ;-). I actually did not asked, coz I want for now to have the freedom to experiment and break things.

Thanks, this is really cool.

I am also working on my own Jitsi Hack, trying to add feature for Agile meetings -> https://meet.retrolution.co/?utm_source=HN

I was thinking to add some features similar to yours in order to implemented Liberating Structures http://www.liberatingstructures.com/

Serioulsy it rocks ! happy to see it works without any problem on linux, and can join a session in the browser.

We worked REALLY hard to make sure we had Linux support this time around! It’s in beta, and there will likely be issues. Please report them to us, and I promise we will try to solve them asap!

I have been working on a fork of jitsi video conference web client, aka meet, to add features dedicated to Agile teams. So far added Poker Planning and post-its.

Demo available on https://jitsi.retrolution.co/ (new features are visible in the chat section)

The biggest startups are all either parts of https://www.thefamily.co/ or https://www.efounders.com/ They are quite impressive in the way they operate

I didn't understand their #1 point "Europe is Toxic"? Does the absence of startups make a place 'toxic'?

Well, you can click on it and be redirected to a full article that explains their position: https://www.thefamily.co/toxicity