Product Roadmap
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The product roadmap is split into two pillars.
Vertical: We will build for a general use-case that can be used regardless of what sector or who uses our product, we will grow these features on the sole of our Vision - To make remote communication better.
Horizontal: We plan to eventually be a marketplace where we give developers access if required to build on top of our E2E encrypted, remote conferencing video product. These efforts, however, have to start in the house, which means that we need to build a few features and products to begin this innovation within the product.
We have a reasonably diverse team that we plan to work with covering various areas from artificial intelligence to cybersecurity. We plan to have a lean team until we raise revenue & achieve product-market fit. We plan to build our distribution strategy by starting with our friends and move to a further bigger circle by making sure our customers have a smooth journey while adapting us. (More details in the diagram below). Once we have reached a certain scale and are open to exploring our horizontal pillars, we plan to expand our team close to where our sales prospects take us. Then we plan to add sales, marketing & customer success efforts.
We would want to collaborate with educational ministry or other sectors once we scale horizontally. This is still an exploratory space; once we have a fit for our product, we can expand more on this.
So in the roadmap, we will address both of these pillars. We will focus on vertical pillars in the short term to achieve product-market fit. We will, in the long term, move to unbundle segments and add more horizontal pillars.
The general use-cases that can be used regardless of what sector or who use our product, we will grow these features on the sole of our Vision - To make remote communication better.
For Signups, we have thought to keep 1-1 calls open & no signup process required. However, to schedule calls in the future, we will have social(Facebook,google) signups or build our login system. This will mainly be done so out users can log in & see their contacts & their schedules at their convenience.
With any service, we want our remote conference should help have various kinds of conversation & not just be used for meetings, for this purpose we want to introduce various rooms.
Closed Room - A password-protected room that is invite-only.
Open Room - A water-cooler space, which is open all the time for any on & off discussions within the remote work environment.
Broadcast Rooms - A room that will be used to deliver an overall message, in the case of offices, it could be a broad CEO’s message to the employees.
Scheduled Rooms - Meetings that are blocked for a particular team/ event. This room is opened for every meeting a specific team has.
As an application we are fully encrypted and private; however, we also aim to provide User-centered design which means that we want to give explicit user controls and that is what this section of features will do
Audio - Ability to Mute /Unmute audio.
Video - Ability to switch on/off
Pin - preview
Share File - Being able to send documents/audio/video across on the chat.
Host/Organiser - Every meeting will have an organiser/host who has explicit authority.
Mute others - If the user host of this meeting.
Manually admit participants - Allow/ reject admission by the host of the meeting.
Raise hand - Every communication is not one way, hence a feature for everyone to be given an opportunity to speak.
Screen Share - Ability to share the user’s screen with others, either in full screen or minimized view.
Meeting recording - Ability to record the conference call with audio & video.
Invitation - through email/ through link/ calendar invite
Preview calls - Ability to preview the video/ the person calling before the call is accepted.
We believe while we are faced with a world of remote, it doesn't take away from the need to be ready. Prepared, professional and easy to adapt. This is why we are introducing these features.
Background change - Ability to change the background to a few templatized images.
Image - Ability to change your profile picture.
Background blur - Focus on the speaker is vital, so we give an ability to blur the background.
It is vital to keep communication beyond conferencing & calls. For these reasons, our next set of features focuses on making information more accessible.
Transcript - A fully automated transcript via speech recognition.
Closed Captions - Providing subtitles to every conference
Minutes of the Meeting - Automated minutes of all the meetings, by analysing transcripts with Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
Sign Language - We are focussed on human centric design & that means including every human in the communication. Therefore, we will enable sign language automation by analysing transcripts using Intelligent Process Automation (IPA)
We plan to eventually be a marketplace where we give developers access if required to build on top of our E2E encrypted, remote conferencing video product. These efforts, however, have to start in the house, which means that we need to build a few features and products to begin this innovation within the product.
As we build for various organisations, it is important to give them access controls and
Org Admin Roles and controls - Giving access to admins of each organisation & give controls in terms of what users have what controls. Super Admin, Admin, User levels are well defined.
Account switching (Personal/Professional/multi-account) - We aim to be organisational as well as personal; hence the ability for a user to use the tool for personal should be effortless.
Chat history/Room history - Ability to control how much information about confidential conferences can be given to different users.
Gateway for teams (Meeting room setup) - Setting up rooms for various teams that will always be used by them. Ease of use for teams to set up conference calls is assured.
Attendance - With remote teams, it is essential to set up an easy way to check-in with the team in a reliable way.
Contact list - Open/closed access to the contact information within the organisation.
Schedules, Calendar - Open/closed access to the schedules/calendar information within the organisation.
Personal meeting ID - Password Protected meeting IDs in order to protect data & privacy.
For an organisation in any sector to work well, the communication tools have to be integrated with other channels as well. We aim to do that to ease the organisation to work efficiently.
Chat integrations - Integrating chat apps to remind you about the conference calls.
Browser integration - Introducing browser extensions to access & notify about the conference calls from the web.
Calendar integration - Integrating Calendar apps to remind about the conference calls & allow to add the conference link to calendar meetings as well.
Project Management integration - Integrating check-in to remind about the conference calls at the end of each project tasks.
We plan to start with the freemium model, but we want to provide a tiered pricing strategy eventually. A paid small org, paid mid-org, paid large-org will be on different tires, and the features we open will be dependent on size & data usage.
We aim to provide a social presence within our application so to have more engagement within the users.
Channels - Different channel conversations to deal with the interest of the users. Eg: #technology, #dance etc.
Membership - People could take free/paid membership of any channel.
Donation - Allowing people to donate to bigger causes around them, and create social impact.
Subscription - Allowing the users to subscribe to channels that catch their interest.
Commenting - Allowing the users to comment on video/audio calls that are recorded.
Replying - Allowing the users to reply to comment on video/audio calls that are recorded.
Liking - Allowing the users to like comments on video/audio calls that are recorded.
Sharing - Allowing the users to like share the video/audio calls that are recorded
Press to talk - Like walkie talkie, allowing users to talk by pressing a certain button - So as to allow only one person to talk at a time
Emoji faces - Allowing users to communicate beyond words & use emotions to strengthen the conversation.
BRB experience - Allow users to indicate status and indicate if they are away from the keyboard, on vacation etc.
Voice message - If the recipient is not able to take the video/audio call, the sender can record a voice message.
Video messages - If the recipient is not able to take the video/audio call, the sender can record a video message.
Organising catchups, webinars & interviews will be at the centre of remote collaboration.
Create an event - Ability for users to create events & share it with interested people easily.
Webinar - Ability for users to easily create events & share it with interested people.
Anonymous Voting feature / Poll - Ability to vote/ poll in interesting, community shared topics.
Live video session - Organising live sessions where experts can come in & be asked questions/discuss various exciting topics.
Every communication is incomplete without powerful collaborative tools so we will expand on this.
Interactive Board - Ability to collaborate and discuss on top of video calls.
Presentation mode - Ability to present your ideas and discuss on top of video calls.
Screen highlight - As we explore education as a big sector, we think in teaching & collaboration, it will be powerful to highlight texts on screen.
Annotate - Writing on screen to discuss various documents.
Auto-reply template - Ability to auto-respond in terms of audio/video etc. if one user is unable to make it to a group meeting.
While we explore the fun aspects that remote communication would bring, we feel it is important to provide certain hooks through enhancements to keep people involved.
Filters - Beautification of participants by providing filters to enhance appearance.
Masks - Adding fun elements on top of videos.
Reactions/gifs - Adding integrations with gif websites to react or comment on the video/audio call.
