Thank you @katmanalac 💙!! Hi PH community! I’m Helena 👋, one of the Glimpse founders. We dropped out of Duke CS to build a startup, and it’s come a long way in the last few months. We first left on a mission to build authenticity into our lives through genuine connections: this meant engaging people 1:1 offline for heart-to-hearts. This little covid thing changed all of our plans! Mid-March, we decided to shift our efforts to a fundamental piece of the “authentic connection” user journey: initiation. An amazing start to a relationship can change the course of the (friend)ship significantly. We realized a recipe for a successful first impression included a mix of adrenaline rush and a sense of instant connection. The “missed connection” feeling was also critical in making someone yearn to reach out and continue a conversation. We introduced time-boxed video chat, always 1:1, and never with a complete stranger. At first it was a social consumer product, and then we realized the massive demand as covid was bringing tightly knit communities online -- everyone from business schools to book clubs was now scrambling to build a sense of intimacy online. We found most video platforms to be **tools** to facilitate a conversation. We choose to focus on creating an experience that brings delight, rather than simply enabling you to talk through your screen. Today, we are beyond excited to announce a completely revamped Glimpse 2.0. The huge demand from business schools, conferences, teams, blew us away - enough to launch Web, build special features, and add Admin customization. The screenshots above are just a sneak peak of all we have in store - to get the full spiel join me in the Product Hunt room on Glimpse!! Join me here: https://app.joinglimpse.com/prod...! Excited to chat about community with you:) I want to hear all about your journey in building an online community: what you’ve tried, what’s been frustrating, and what’s been amazing. What feelings are you no longer getting in group settings? Have you found yourself forming new habits with respect to maintaining friendships and meeting new people? Why does community matter to you? Helena, Co-founder

Thanks Kat 🎉 Hey PH Community! I’m Brian, one of the co-founders of Glimpse! My team has been hard at work over the last few months, and we’re really excited to bring you an entirely reimagined socializing experience on video. After spending half a year on video calls (yeah, crazy isn’t it?), we’ve realized that existing products fall short of the valuable interactions we share in real life. Here are just a couple of the issues: - Only one person can speak at a time - No natural side conversations - Inadequate for building meaningful relationships As remote life continues for the foreseeable future, we realized that we needed a solution enabling everything from remote socializing to remote networking to even remote rush! Our latest version of Glimpse Web is designed to do just that. After speaking with community managers, teams, and other Glimpsers, we’ve redesigned our product to improve upon existing video platforms. I’m really excited about some of the features, including: - Typed Rooms: ensure everyone in your community meets the right people (eg. interns meet fulltimers, bigs meet littles, rushees meet members) - Customizable Features: choose the specific features that will help your community connect - Authless Login: allow your members to join without needing to create an account We would love for you to try out Glimpse with your team, your community, or even your family! If you would like to get a “glimpse” of the experience first, join me in our Product Hunt room: app.joinglimpse.com/producthunt Can’t wait to hear your feedback! Brian, Co-Founder

Love the progress!!!!!!! What features do you have in the pipeline? Would love to see creative icebreakers structured into a game that you can play while in a chat :)

This product is really cool. It can get so difficult to stay connected, especially in this time of quarantine and social isolation. What sort of use cases do you guys see for this product after quarantine is over?

Love the design and so excited about the potential here! Would love to know how to integrate this into large workplace settings especially with remote work becoming more prevalent moving forward.

The product is amazing!!

I feel like I must cost Glimpse a fortune in server fees with how much I use it to talk to both individual friends and organizations. Seriously impressed

Cool idea! This would be awesome to use in an educational setting — college discussion sections, summer camps, etc.

Glimpse is amazing! Using it all the way in Australia and helping me to connect with so many diverse communities. Helena has also been awesome. I'm constantly bombarding Helena with ideas for new features and additions, and never met with judgement or annoyance. It's been great getting to know Glimpse and see it make leaps and bounds in such a short time.

We are currently launching Glimpse to our student population studying at UCLan University, UK. We think the 2 minute, random chats with fellow students will help replicate online what happens during our ‘Freshers Week’; when students are meeting socially and building friendships across our face-face activities. Many of which have needed to be cancelled or moved online due to COVID-19. We see this as the natural progression from Facebook groups, where students can have a real-time conversations with peers in a safe and friendly environment.

Enjoy the sleek and straight to the point design, the easy navigation to important features on the app and it also provides a quick and engaging way to connect with friends!

Awesome tool for staying connected to friends and coworkers. The interface is beautiful and the application runs with no problems. I love the two-minute time limit; it allows you to catch up with the other Glimpser without feeling too pressured to have a long conversation.

Glimpse is amazing! As an extreme extrovert, I've struggled to get enough human interaction, especially through incidental contact, during this whole quarantine, but Glimpse makes it so easy to meet people and have fun. More importantly, having served as the European Commission's CTO for the EUvsVirus Hackathon (https://euvsvirus.org), I've had several conversations with the Glimpse Team, and they are always attentive and ready to help out at a moment's notice, even expanding their services to account for European Union regulations and needs. Recently, Helena herself got on a call to tell me about new features and games that will assist with my future operations. With my upcoming global online hackathon (https://rallyto.us) focusing on helping students secure internships and jobs for 2021, we'll be sure to bring in Glimpse to help our participants expand their network around the world and build camaraderie across time zones!

Also what tech do you use for realtime video connection?

Wow! Looks great! I didn't realize that it could integrate with slack. That's awesome!

Glimpse is amazing!! Using it during meetings has definitely helped me get to know other members of my remote team a lot better. Also love the time limit that makes the conversation less forced and more meaningful. Excited for more minigames to be released!!

Glimpse is an amazing product, and its use is particularly important given the current social climate. I've used Glimpse countless of times within my club circles to increase meaningful connections in any team I'm on and it really shows. Love all the good Glimpse is doing!!

So many efficient applications, from networking to recruiting to college freshmen getting to meet each other! Needed something like this just in time for the pandemic. Have been and will be using Glimpse in so many different organizations - for sure will become a social tech staple.

Nice idea 😃 I downloaded the app now and here's some feedback. I didn't understand the tagline on here but I understood more after reading the app description. I wonder, are you more focused on "meet friends in groups of friends" or "a fun way to stay in touch with your social groups"?

Glimpse is awesome!! It's such a fun and easy way to help people feel connected, I love using it with my friends to catch up with each other and with my remote team to get to know people better. Super excited about the work Glimpse is doing!