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Simon Holm
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Showdev: We are building an online meeting app - Collabify ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽฆ๐Ÿ–ผ๐ŸŽญ

Hello Dev.to community!

As the title says we are building a little meeting app that we call Collabify. Collabify gives you voice, webcam and screensharing in the browser with no downloads needed.

Why?
It all started as a project during a course in university where myself and Alexander Lรถรถf got the opportunity to try and build whatever we wanted, with whatever technology we wanted to learn. So we figured - Let's build a meeting app, that be fun right? ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ.

Stack
React, TypeScript, MobX, Styled Components, Apollo GraphQL, WebRTC, Socket.IO, Node and all that kind of good stuff! ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿฉ๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿฌ

How did it go?
It was a challenge! ๐Ÿ˜ตโ˜• We were often deep down in documentation figuring out webRTC or [insert random from mentioned tech stack]. Sometimes feeling like ๐Ÿฑโ€๐Ÿ‘ค's and other times like ๐Ÿคฏ || ๐Ÿคฌ || ๐Ÿ’. You can take a look at the app by clicking the link below.

https://collabify.app

What's next?
We will keep working on this app while we are still at university. We have some ideas we want to try out and we dream of turning this into a little SaaS platform. If anything it's a fun project that have taught us alot about web development.

Tell us what you think! ๐Ÿ’–

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Casey Brooks

This looks really nice! With Hangouts on the chopping-block, this might be my new go-to for quick online meetings!

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Simon Holm • Edited

Thank you Casey!

What's the deal with the "Hangouts being shut down" thing? From what I gather it seems google are going to rebrand it and split it into two separate new products... Be interesting to see what they come up with

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Amit Erandole

Gorgeous. Well done Simon

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Tushar Borole

cool app

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Simon Holm

Ty Tushar!

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Shobi

Nice UI, cool app. quick bug: after the meeting is full The organizer don't get any notificaiton

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Simon Holm

Thanks Shobi!

Hmm the meeting organizer should receive a notification if someone tries to join the meeting when the meeting is full. You are right though - it would be nice to know when the meeting is full in advance. I'll make a task out of it :)

Thanks again for testing the app and giving us feedback!

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Rajeev R. Sharma • Edited

The UI looks great. Will try it out soon. Thanks.

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Simon Holm

Thank you Rajeev! Yes please do try it out :)

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Theo

Beauiful design!
(Only semi-negative comment is that the display resembles discord in a way)
I love the idea and can really see it being used for groups of teams where remote work is an issue.

I'd suggest opensourcing the project after having read some posts by Ben Halpern (Founder of Dev.to).

Most notably, these posts:

dev.to/ben/devto-is-now-open-sourc...

Hope you consider this as your buisness grows and mad probs to you on your journey, I wish you all the luck!

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Diego Malta

Great idea. The interface clean, modern and good UX I will test the app. Congrats.

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Simon Holm

Thank you Diego!

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TuWang

It's definitely a fun project at school!

Objectively speaking, isn't this inspired by asana.com? I have been using Asana for long time and I can't help but noticing ...

Asana has 3 dots on log and you have 4 dots :)

Asana vs collabify

Asana interface vs collabify.app interface

Asana

Asana

Asana

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collabify

I don't think it's a big deal, but it'd be nice to shout out inspiration :)

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Takumi

Beautiful!

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Prasanna Kulkarni

Liked app, working well with mobile browser too