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PingPong — Video messaging for remote teams
Better collaboration for product teams in multiple time zones. Exchange video, voice, and screen recordings with your team at the tap of a button.
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@jinal: Thank you. Our team did a lot of great work, and this encouragement helps.
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
Thank you, @rosscranwell! Hopefully we'll be able to make it work even better for your team.
Looks awesome, the moment is perfect as most companies are adopting remote! We need this!
@kozkozkoz: Thank you, Oleg. I saw you launched today too. Very generous of you to give feedback/help a competing launch.
@jonbstrong: Great question. Currently free; we're optimizing for usage and feedback. We should always have a free plan, and we'll introduce new features into a paid tier in the long run.
I really dig this, I find myself sending more and more voice messages and this is a great alt to trying to schedule a vid call.
Dare I say, it's the "Stories for Slack".
@gabe__perez – The stories metaphor is OK, but stories tend not to be conversational. We're trying to create a collaborative exchange of recording videos.
We've been using PingPong for a few months on our remote async team, and really love it!
I've used the product for months and the best part about it is how quickly it gets better and how rapidly the team responds to feedback. Here are some use cases we use PingPong for as a team:
debriefing on key customer calls
connecting with customers and partners
recognition and appreciation
sharing product feedback, product demos
async design reviews
The product integrates well with Slack and the team has been incredible.
@stevearntz – Thanks for the nice words about our team and for the product feedback. We'll do our best to keep it up!
I've been using Ping ping with several devs and we're thrilled. More face to face asynchronous catch ups in my life ftw!
@ctraganos – Appreciate the review. We'll get that multi-email sign in out for you soon!
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.
@nattyz – The latest release had some more improvements to the partial screen experience. Excited for you to see the release next 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.
Sick product 💜
Our team has been using it to handle async messaging in the past weeks, naturally fits into our workflows :)
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 Looks nice. I wanna try slack app. Could you invite us?
@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!
Great tool, I wonder though how it's integrated with Slack? At least according to the website.
@larsboehnke: Great question. Two pieces: (1) When you use a /pingpong command, the partial screen version of our app comes down from the menu bar, you record, and then the video is added to Slack & (2) Notifications from PingPong are piped to slack with links/thumbnails.
@rememberlenny: Thanks for the support. Exactly. Remote async work should create focus. Slack has become the antithesis of that.
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