Hi PH! 👋 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 don’t 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: 👉 https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...
**Features**
🎥 Video recording
🎙 Voice recording
💻 Screen recording
🧵 Message threading
🔗 Link sharing and web player to share recordings externally like Loom
👋 Workspace guests
💨 3x playback speed
⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts for most actions
**Use cases**
🕴 Standups
🎨 Design reviews
📣 Team updates
🙏 Expressing gratitude & giving feedback
🧠 Brainstorming
🐞 Bug reporting
📢 Customer feedback
🔮 Async candidate screening
**Platforms**
💻 Mac and Windows desktop apps
#️⃣ Slack app (still in beta, contact me if you'd like access)
📱 Android and iOS mobile apps (still in beta, contact me if you’d 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! 🙏
I'm available anytime for questions or feedback! You can text (801-628-1798) or email (jeff@getpingpong.com).
@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!
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 don’t warrant an entire call. Right now I jot them down and try to remember at our next sync. I’ll 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.
The app is great! The app is very useful for remote teams and brings the interaction to another level. 🎥 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.
@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.
@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.
@bogdan_ionita: We love Loom and still use it. It's great for external use cases or where videos function as an asset.
With PingPong, we're facilitating frictionless collaboration.
As an early beta tester of PingPong I can say that it's changed how me and my team interact. We've replaced a lot of our calls and video meetings with short async video messages, making us much more productive. I'm even starting to replace sending emails with sending video message clips instead.
One of my favorite parts is the additional nuance and connection that comes from video vs text.
Cool product that I recommend you all try.
I've been using PingPong (love the branding btw) and found that i'm really excited to record and to receive messages. Very different feeling to slack communications - and much more personal. Great work guys
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