saidur

Crowdcast | Senior Android Engineer | REMOTE & FULL-TIME

Hey folks! Sai here, CEO of Crowdcast. I'm looking to hire an engineer to help bring our interactive online events experience to Android.

For context, Crowdcast is the online events platform for creators and startups to bring their community together and host high impact online gatherings. We've had massive growth over the past year as people all over the world moved their events online. Every month, hundreds of thousands of people attend events ranging from live shows, workshops, meet-ups, online concerts, & online summits. Our customers range from big companies like Adobe, IBM, Twilio, & HP to creators like Amanda Palmer, MIA, System of a Down & Jacob Collier.

We believe technology can be used to bring people together & bridge divides. We're empowering people to share their ideas at scale, bring their communities together, and make a living in the process.

We're a profitable, remote-first, and long-term thinking company. You could say, we're a "zebra" company.

I would love to meet you. Drop me a line here → https://crowdcast.link/android

Looks awesome. Trying it out now :)

Round 2! Can't wait. The last Hacksummit had 30k attendees.

@SocialJumpstart got a sneak peak of the new Crowdcast and was quite the fan.

Yeah the hangout interface is pretty bad. We've been able to get our viewers to completely avoid the hangout interface and use Crowdcast for all interactions. Right now only the speakers have to deal with the hangout interface. The host invites them directly to the hangout.

Although it works fine 90% of the time, we were able to run the largest virtual conf in history, every once in a while hangouts does still do strange things. Luckily for that reason we made Crowdcast decoupled from the video service, you can use it with Livestream, Ustream, or anything with an embed code.

Thanks egusa, its been a lot of work :)

I was frustrated with how much of a pain it is to organize coding conferences online. The webinar software out there simply sucks for the host and the attendee. I figured out a way to seamlessly use Google Hangouts to organize large-scale highly interactive virtual conferences, and I call it Crowdcast.

Here are some coding conferences that have used it so far: Hacksummit (30k attendees, http://ccst.io/e/hacksummit-2014), Genesis Camp (http://ccst.io/e/genesiscamp1), ANZCoders (http://ccst.io/e/anzcoders2015), Wordsesh (http://ccst.io/e/wordsesh)

You can set up multiple sessions with different panels and talks across multiple days. The architecture is built to scale. It's a client-side angular app primarily talking to Firebase. With this model I've been able to hold the world's largest virtual conference (http://hacksummit.org). We had everyone from DHH (creator of rails) to Hakon Le (inventor of css) speak.

To take it one-step further I added analytics around your event and Crowdcast keeps track of when you answer your audience's questions so that they can jump straight to the video answers once the event is over. Finally, your event is automatically recorded and instantly shareable.

Would love to see how the HN community uses this to organize their own conferences

You should give http://crowdcast.io a try. It innovates on top of Hangouts.

Haha thanks for the compliments Peter ;)

(ceo of Crowdcast)

I think you would enjoy Thomas Campbell's work :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8LaMrn_MM

I legitimately think we are living in some sort of holographic simulation created by consciousness. I think Thomas Campbell's work is most accurate model of reality I have seen. Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8LaMrn_MM

There isn't a paradox. The universe is teeming with life.

I've always believed that there was no evidence for ETs and life out there. I thought it was fiction. Then I spent all of last year trying to find legitimate proof of their existence. I just kept my mind open yet skeptical and looked at all the evidence I could find and simply analyzed the data. I was shocked that my conclusion was that ETs exist, they have been visiting us for quite some time, and they are generally benevolent.

You don't have to believe anything I say, in fact I wouldn't want you to. All I can ask is that you also spend some legitimate effort doing your research. Here's something to start your path down the rabbit hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyVe-6YdUk

I think you would enjoy Thomas Campbell's work :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8LaMrn_MM

Loving this.