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vLine Wins Audience Choice and Best Conferencing Awards at WebRTC Expo

One of the toughest decisions you have to make as a startup is how much time and effort to spend building your product vs. promoting it. For most of the last two years, we decided to remain laser focused on the building side of things. 

As a result, when we showed up at the WebRTC Expo in Atlanta last week, a lot of people in the WebRTC community hadn’t heard of us. That made it all the more rewarding to leave the conference with both the Audience Choice Award, which was awarded based on voting from conference participants, and the Best Conferencing Award, which was awarded by a panel of judges to the best multi-party conferencing solution.

If you missed the conference, you can check us out in the following videos (courtesy of TMCNet):

And thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and snagged a #webrtcisready t-shirt. We met a lot of great folks and look forward to continuing all those conversations.

GitTogether: Video Chat for GitHub (powered by WebRTC)

tl;dr

  1. Go to gittogether and login with GitHub.
  2. See people you follow on GitHub plus members of your teams and organizations as contacts.
  3. If the people you want to talk to aren’t online or aren’t in your contact list, send them your GitTogether url (gittogether GitHub).
  4. Chat away!

Background

It’s hard to know if your platform is any good until you’ve used it to build a real app, preferably one that you use yourself on a daily basis. So, when we first started developing the vLine platform and API two years ago, we also started building an app on top of it.

Since our lives basically revolve around GitHub, we decided to build a communications tool that does, too. We named it GitTogether, gave it a GitHub login, and populated the contacts list from the people you follow or work with on GitHub.

Fast-forward to today, and we have a robust app that we’ve been using internally as our primary communications tool for over a year. Since our main goal was to learn from the experience of building and using it, we never shared it very widely, but enough people have discovered it and found it useful that we figured we should finally spend some more time talking about it.

Over the next few weeks, we’re going to do a series of blog posts on how it works under the hood, what we learned from the process of building it, and how you can build apps that share the same capabilities. But in the meantime, enjoy!

Free vLine/WebRTC Consulting and Training

One of our biggest priorities is to make it as easy as possible to get started with WebRTC and the vLine platform. To that end, we’re giving away five free full-day consulting and training sessions to developers working on projects utilizing WebRTC and vLine that will go live by June 30.

For developers in the continental US, we will come to your office, sit down beside you and do whatever it takes to make your project successful. For those in other parts of the world, we’ll do the same thing via video chat and screen sharing.

If you’re interested, please send an email to [email protected] telling us what you’re building and how you would make use of the consulting time.

On May 10, we’ll review the requests and select the five developers. Priority will be given to projects where development resources have already been allocated and that will be launching soon.

We look forward to hearing from you!

vLine Just Got Easier

We’re happy to announce a major milestone for the vLine platform: You can now create a private-label video chat service in about a minute, without writing any code.

And to make it even easier to take the next step and integrate it with your website, we’re giving away five free full-day, on-site consulting and training sessions to qualifying projects (full details here).

To create your video chat service, go to vline.com and click the big ‘Get Started’ button. Or to see how it works, check out this video: